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tomchewz

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My isp is eastlink and im not sure whats happening with my internet speeds, when i try a few runs with shaw im getting a ! with around 320ms .6up .6down, then when I try speedtest.net under the server thats hosted by eastlink I'm getting 21ms 20mbsup .9down but when i try another server thats in the same area im getting 60-150ms and d/l speeds from .8-3mbs .9 up and they take a couple seconds to even connect, also they fastest I ever seen anything download is 1.3mbs, I dont understand this as I have a 20mbs internet connection or so they say. Could i have a virus or something i scanned my computer with anti virus, maleware, ad aware and all those but they find nothing.
 
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There are a lot of variables in place. Just because you have a 20MBps plan doesn't mean everything will download that fast. A great example is when I downloaded things from our FTP at work. At home I had a 15MBps plan but the real download speeds were much slower. Why? The server was setup to throttle download speeds. If we allowed the thousands of people to all download that fast it would eat up our bandwidth and slow everyone to a crawl. If you've ever downloaded a movie or torrent the same thing happens. Streaming is a bit different. Even if it is throttled, you'd never need more than 12MBps to stream an HD movie, so the speeds there would be indicative of whats necessary to keep a steady buffer.

Then there's the fact that the...
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There are a lot of variables in place. Just because you have a 20MBps plan doesn't mean everything will download that fast. A great example is when I downloaded things from our FTP at work. At home I had a 15MBps plan but the real download speeds were much slower. Why? The server was setup to throttle download speeds. If we allowed the thousands of people to all download that fast it would eat up our bandwidth and slow everyone to a crawl. If you've ever downloaded a movie or torrent the same thing happens. Streaming is a bit different. Even if it is throttled, you'd never need more than 12MBps to stream an HD movie, so the speeds there would be indicative of whats necessary to keep a steady buffer.

Then there's the fact that the networks get clogged. If I run speedtest on the weekends my 12MBps might slow down to like 8-10MBps. On a weekday in the middle of the night I've seen it push 20, even though that's not my plan (which could be a bug with SpeedTest for all I know).
 
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aldan

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im on shaw broadband 50Mbs and the only time mine slowed down below 40Mbs was a problem with shaws network.this is on both shaw speedtest as well as speedtest.net. the op is getting shitty speedtests. this signals either a problem with his computer or with shaw. but first things first. call shaw support.
 
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