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Originally Posted by IanUK
Its strange, most sites I visit (Fileplanet,Easynews & 99% of all homepages with games files/vids etc) only give about 140-180k at most through the Poplar Proxies, switching to either Colchester or Hersham gives full 370k speed IN EVERY CASE, this seems to indicate that the Poplar Proxies are misconfigured in some way, or speed capped.
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Not necessarily. When you specify a different proxy you are also using a completely different section of network
as well - and so you can't make a deduction like like this - although it might be tempting.
This is why ppl tend to blame proxies for all sorts of behaviour changes, since it is the only tangible thing that they changing - when in fact there are many other network changes too, as a result of changing the proxy, that aren't very visible (unless you use something like tcp-traceroute to show the actual network path used).
That said, your evidence shoud be something that support can use to investigate further. Did you report the issue?
One other thing is to investigate your TCP Receive window which will limit download throughput from sites.
http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks