Download speed slow

I've recently purchased a new macbook retina 2014 13". What I've noticed is that the download speed is extremely slow, I get 500 kb/s, this is really slow for me and I actually bought this laptop for downloading and watching movies ... I've done a speedtest and it tells me

I have done a speedtest and it tells me I should get 80 mb/s,
Can somebody help me?

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    this describes how http://use.opendns.com/

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    10/24/2011 3:28 AM GMT         1.31 Mb/s     0.73
    10/22/2011 4:54 AM GMT         1.20 Mb/s     0.73
    10/21/2011 6:40 AM GMT         5.34 Mb/s     0.66
    10/21/2011 5:08 AM GMT         0.93 Mb/s     0.73
    10/19/2011 6:51 PM GMT         4.86 Mb/s     0.61
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    10/18/2011 4:47 PM GMT         5.34 Mb/s     0.72
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    10/12/2011 4:26 AM GMT         0.94 Mb/s     0.72
    10/12/2011 4:01 AM GMT         1.00 Mb/s     0.72
    10/11/2011 4:00 PM GMT         5.35 Mb/s     0.70
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    10/11/2011 4:18 AM GMT         1.14 Mb/s     0.73
    10/11/2011 1:12 AM GMT         5.35 Mb/s     0.70
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    The first to bring me 1Gbps Fiber for $30/m wins!

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