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ridiculously slow download times (UPC)

  • 24-10-2011 06:23PM
    #1
    ooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭


    it's been happening for the last month or so,during the day if i try to download say a movie for example it's telling me it's going to take more than 12 hours.if i try to download the same movie early in the morning (6am) it'll only take about 10-15 mins.:confused:
    is anyone else having this problem?
    just did a speedtest and got this result.online gaming is not a problem,neither is watching live streams,just seems to be downloads i'm having problems with.
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Comments

  • #2
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,022 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Who are you downloading from?


  • #3
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Discussion of pirating copyright material will get your thread deleted and user banned, so be very careful before continuing with this line of posting.

    Speed tests, as outlined in the UPC mega thread should be done first.


  • #4
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,022 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    jor el wrote: »
    Discussion of pirating copyright material will get your thread deleted and user banned, so be very careful before continuing with this line of posting.

    Speed tests, as outlined in the UPC mega thread should be done first.

    Good point. Well, as I outlined in another thread UPC connections to Asian Filehosters are bandwidth throttled. If you use a program like jdownloader, open a fairly large amount of connections and downloads at once you can produce reasonable speeds.


  • #5
    AH92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭AH92


    What Upc broadband package do you have?


  • #6
    RangeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,258 ✭✭✭RangeR


    Are you using wireless connection or do you have a network cable connected between your computer and UPC "modem".

    If you are wireless, try wired first. Anything else won't give you any answers.


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  • #7
    ooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭ooter


    i'm using a wired connection.
    i'm currently downloading an album (640 mb) and there's 1 hour and 15 mins remaining..:confused:


  • #8
    AH92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭AH92


    Its more and likely the server you are using! Try downloading a file from microsoft.com and see if the speed increases!


  • #9
    Nollog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,908 ✭✭✭Nollog


    UPC throttle some of the bigger networks like OVH.
    I'm on 100mbit and between 8am and 2am I max out at 1MB/s, the rest of the time full 100mbit.


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