OK , never one to be shy to admit my own foolishness :)  Appears that I have totally misunderstood Megabit per second VS Megabyte per second. After your comment I had to look it up as I have always thought it was a one to one calc, not 1 to 8 :() I owe you a beer David.   Thanks heaps for clearing that up for me. I feel like a right old **.     ... View more

Thanks for chiming in David, WiFi is showing much higher speeds, correct - around 40MBps. Logically however, how long should a 250MB file from google drive take to download at NBN50 speeds even considering the overheads ? 5 Seconds would be ideal , 10 seconds is half speed.  For me however it takes just over  60 seconds ?  I might be confused here but what decent/realistic download speed should one expect to download files at from google drive?  I'm only asking because today I had a time critical project to deliver and needed to download a 20 GB dataset before I could begin.  At 50MBps that's a 7 minute download versus an hour plus wait at the speeds I'm actually getting.  The pic attached shows how long I wait to download a 250Mb sample file. Cheers.                ... View more

Hi Shane,   Reset the router, tried different browser, Firefox this time. Different speed test site - OOKLA, tp-link speed test - both show download speeds above 50Mbps ( grabs attached)   Downloading a few different files from google drive (assume that would yield fast downloads) , one from my drive one from someone else's  - both show speeds of just above 5mpbs ?   So the 5mbps cap mystery continues. Thanks heaps for looking into this and helping me out.  I've been on this NBN plan for years btw.  This download speed cap is not a recent happening/observation. I just decided to report it today. Forgot to mention, if I download multiple files , the agregate download speed becomes 5mbps. So one file will be 1.5mbps, one will be 3.0mbps, and one will hover around/below 1.0mbps.       ... View more