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Slow internet when downloading at low speeds

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September 24, 2014 3:44:36 AM

From the title, you might think this is a dumb question, but it's weird for me. Okay, let's get to it.

I just moved out and got my internet working, it shows around an average on 17mbit (I did 5 tests at different times, they all show almost the same), but here's the thing, before I moved out, I was living with my parent, we had a 2mbit internet connection and on that connection I could download with 300 kb/s as the max, but I could download with 150 kb/s without any increase in ping, so if my ping was 60ms in a game server before I was download, it would also be 60-65ms while downloading with 150 kb/s.

But on my new internet (17mbit), my ping goes up to around 100ms when downloading with only 200 kb/s. On this internet, I can download files with a max of 1.3 mb/s, but yet I am lagging in games when downloading with only 200 kb/s.

If I do a speedtest after downloading with 1.3 mbps, it shows that my connection is a 6mbit internet connection, I guess that means I still have 6 mbits to do good with, right? So I shouldn't really have a ping increase in games?

Sorry for the long post, just hoping someone can help me. This has also happened while watching youtube videos, for some reason, streaming a 480p youtube video has a huge impact on my in-game latency. Can someone help me? I have a strong WI-FI signal, so that shouldn't be the problem and I tried on two different computers. Could there be a magical setting in the router config that I can change to make it "better"?

Thanks again.

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September 24, 2014 4:53:55 AM

I'm wondering if you're getting interference from neighbours. Try turning off the WiFi, plug in a network cable and see if the same thing is still happening.
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October 11, 2014 7:26:27 AM

Hi. Sorry that this isn't much of an answer but I'm having the same problem.. I download a game at 400 KBS when it was 1.3 MBS 10 days ago and when downloading I have massive lag
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