download speed

carmelina · Post by **carmelina** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:41 pm

For some reason I've been getting a really low download speed lately, downloading EE from the sendspace site. It used to be a lot faster, now it's down to 4 KB/sec, and one file downloads up to 7 hrs. What's up with that, or is the problem with my connection? Anyone else having problems with the speed?

6ULDV8 · Post by **6ULDV8** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:50 pm

It could be your ISP has started to use 'Traffic Shaping'

Try downloading from windows update... if your speeds are good there but torrents only suck, your being traffic shaped.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:51 pm

I just tried one of the files and was getting around 60k/s - I know that with the free service you can go slower though if there's a lot of people downloading. If you can pay for their premium service you should get 500k/s+ though

Post by **faceless** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:03 pm

I've just gone to sendspace to upload tonight's Corrie and it's not connecting at all... maybe they are having problems

carmelina · Post by **carmelina** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:18 am

it seems to be fine now with last night's EE, I'm getting my usual download speed. Maybe there was a problem with the site.

Post by **faceless** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:27 pm

carmelina wrote:it seems to be fine now with last night's EE, I'm getting my usual download speed. Maybe there was a problem with the site.

cool - I think it is all about timing with that place.

6ULDV8 · Post by **6ULDV8** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:44 pm

Indeed...

grabbed 2 files at a very nice rate... between 2.5 & 1.3MB a second, whilst most from there max out at 50k.