Networks Max D/L Speed?

Howcome whenever I download something off of IE 6 it seems to cap at exactly 100kb/s. When Steam downloads updates and preloads games, I've opened the monitor box and it sometimes reaches 4MB/S (4000kb/s) which is insanely fast for a d/l. I just dont understand this.

 

steam must display bits (b) per second as opposed to bytes (B) per second

I usually get about 150KB/s down, which is 1300Kb/s roughly

 

It's not b/s it's kb/s, it even says it.

 

well, some progam's writers are idiots (like ie for example) and don't feel like being correct with KB and Kb

another reason to ditch ie

 

if i ditch ie what should i use? netscape? whats the best one in your opinion?

 

Most people will tell you to get Firefox. I would certainly recommend it.

Get it from www.mozilla.org , but get Firefox and NOT mozilla. Firefox is better imho.

 

personally, I don't like firefox, but rather mozilla, it's personal preference really

 

wow, I downloaded firefox and I imported all my favorites (took less than .1 seconds) and the interface is much like ie except it's not crowded with all kinds of useless crap. Thanks