[NeotonicDragon3]

Originally Posted by Mussels

its what people have said - they cache the file. If you're downloading from one of your ISP's systems it will show up a lot faster, and save them money - they dont pay to get it 5,000 times off the internet, they get it once and everyone else gets the cached copy.

If you want faster internet... get a faster connection. pay for it.

Edit: i have an 8Mb connection (8Mb down, 384K up) and i get approx 7Mb down and 320Kb up in the speedtests. My actual max net speed is 700KB/s, as i've never seen any download hit that (torrents, HTTP, anything) - and the 700 is only from cached files from my ISP (they have a P2P cache, so if i download the 350MB version of a show, it goes at 700KB/s - get the 1.1GB one that isnt cached, i get 200-300)

The actual net speed on mine jumps alot. Sometimes I get 100KB/s and then sometimes I get 900+KB/s Rarely i have ever gone over 1000+KB/s