Torrents and Newsgroup downloads either don't run, or run at 7kb/s.
My internet speed and service is 100% fine, I just ran a speed test and I am getting full whack, 9MB/s. It was the same last weekend too, during the week everything runs fine!
I am not a heavy daily downloader (of perfectly legal content, of course), so certainly wouldn't think I would be flagged on any excessive use lists. Anyone else having these issues?
I have noticed that streaming live footie games is next to impossible at weekends but have not noticed any problem with downloading
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Dubinzurich
they don't throttle or shape, but their network does suffer from congestion
no noticeable differences day or night. Mind you, I'm on 100 and soon to be 150.
I notice it from time to time. I can run a Speedtest and get more than the full 150Mb/s and only get 2-3MB/s when using newsgroups. I even got a subscription to a second newsgroups provider to check it wasn't a problem at their end and had the same result.
No problems here using torrents - I get 7-8MB/s (even today).
Interesting. And what do you think the issue is? Have you tried SSL?
Sunday 1:30pm, I'm getting 103Mbps down, 7.4Mbps up, on a 100/7 subscription, middle in Zürich.
You may be experiencing bottleneck problems somewhere else in the network: like the newsgroup servers cannot handle the large volume and become themselves the bottleneck
Now that consumers can experience 100Mbps and more to their home PC, the last mile is often no longer the bottleneck; the bottleneck often moves to the server's connection, server load, or possible the peering bandwidth between different network operators.
To find out more: try running a traceroute to the server and see how many hops it goes through. Try and find a local Swiss server physically housed in the Internet Exchange in Zürich, then you are more assured or a good connection.
SSL is on by default. I've tried turning it off. The slow down tends to happen early evenings mid week rather than weekends though.
They throttle once they identified youre downloading porn...
Downloading porn is so 1990's... nowadays we stream it.
Hey 90s was the best...Im retro like that and havent lived past Dec 31st 1990...
Which means I havent aged either...
You just haven't noticed.
SSL would have nothing to do with traffic speed.
The slow down, as I told you all earlier is due to congestion.
I've scanned the network for all known traffic shapers. The don't shape the traffic in any way.
Feel free to small talk the issue amongst yourselves.
You seem a bit dim based on the quality of your posts
I face slowdown of Youtube during weekend.
Slow downloads are God's way of telling you to get out more!