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Originally Posted by 1too3
Indeed the speed test sites may be overloaded at peak times yielding poor results. But having known slow downloads from other sites goes a long way to show the download speed is being cut back for some reason, it's also pretty noticeable to the end-user, heck even the VM Status page was unavailable the other day due to the crawl.
Also, when you compare it by doing the same download via a separate ADSL net connection (different ISP) in the same house you can see something is up possibly.
Right on cue, at 11pm, VM back up to 6-8Mbps.
Of course, it's not much use to have an internet connection which is only useful when you are meant to be fast asleep. Oh well.
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I did say I was being cynical
- I don't agree with the 'only useful while you are asleep' statement, though, I am just about to cue up a number of files to download, which will continue while I'm asleep & I'll set the PC to turn off when they are complete.
I appreciate that isn't ideal for everyone, but it works for me - in fact I cannot understand why people wouldn't want to separate their downloads & their other web access in the same way???