Darac Marjal wrote: > Gary Roach wrote: > > When I start a download, it starts at 50M for the first few > > seconds and then drops to 500K to 100K range. > > Finally, don't rule out the possibility that your ISP is throttling > you. While you may be synced at 50M and may be able to transfer at that > for short periods (and thus, the ISP can rightly claim that you have a > 50M connection), they could conceivably throttle your connection in the > longer term.
I think this is quite the most likely possibility. I have only anecdotal reports from friends but what I hear is that often ISPs allow a full speed burst but then throttle for long term steady state data transfer. That matches your reported behavior exactly. This allows customers to run a speed test and have it report full speed but prevent them from getting that speed for a long download such as a full system upgrade or a large install ISO image download. Are you sure your ISP isn't throttling you? Bob
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