My internet speed is VERY unstable :(

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I can't even watch a stream, it's awful... It goes from 10Mbps all the way to 60Mbps and it fluctuates in between those two numbers. I just can't watch a stream like I should be able to, my download speeds are incredibly unstable... I contacted my ISP and they said that the problem isn't on their end and it is probably my router, so the guy told me to upgrade the router's firmware. Now I still have a problem and on top of that after restoring the settings with a bin file I can't access my router page anymore (with admin / admin). It's a nightmare.. Please help :(

EDIT: The router is a TP-Link TL-WR841N.
 
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Is the fluctuation all from the same upstream source or does one thing download at low speeds while another downloads at high speeds?

Your download speed (20Mb) is the MAX that your provider will allow you to download, but it has little or no bearing on what you will actually see, other than the fact that anything over 20Mb will be throttled down to 20Mb.

Let's say you have 4 things you are trying to download:

An ISO from Microsoft, their downstream bandwidth is 100Mb

Some vacation pictures from your mother her downstream bandwidth is 30Mb

A video from a website their downstream bandwidth is 12Mb

An MP3 from an FTP server with 4Mb downstream bandwidth.

The ISO and the vacation pics will download at 20Mb (your max limit), the...
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Wow, now on top of that my Killer E2200 driver isn't working, it's disappeared from the Network center and it has a yellow triangle on it in the device manager. What the heck is happening..
 
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Then either the driver or the actual NIC is faulty.
 
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Ok so I just tried uninstalling it and installing the driver from the motherboard's page and it worked for a sec then it failed again and has a yellow triangle. So I guess it isn't the driver. Come on, it worked like 2 hours ago :( What could have happened in 2 hours.
 
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I replaced the cable. Results from Fast.com:

1st try - 43 Mbps.
2nd try - 51 Mbps.
3rd try - 13 Mbps. (WTF)
4th try - 15 Mbps.
5th try - 12 Mbps. WOW JUST WOW

(The cable is in a PCI-E network adapter, so yeah, the Killer one still doesn't work. And the thing is, I'm paying for 60Mbps rock solid, I have never had such a problem before.)
 
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Is the fluctuation all from the same upstream source or does one thing download at low speeds while another downloads at high speeds?

Your download speed (20Mb) is the MAX that your provider will allow you to download, but it has little or no bearing on what you will actually see, other than the fact that anything over 20Mb will be throttled down to 20Mb.

Let's say you have 4 things you are trying to download:

An ISO from Microsoft, their downstream bandwidth is 100Mb

Some vacation pictures from your mother her downstream bandwidth is 30Mb

A video from a website their downstream bandwidth is 12Mb

An MP3 from an FTP server with 4Mb downstream bandwidth.

The ISO and the vacation pics will download at 20Mb (your max limit), the video will download at 12Mb and the MP3 will download at 4Mb.

The first two are above your cap and they download at your cap speed, the other two are below your cap, but you can't speed them up because you have a limit.

If you want to visualize it, imagine that the government bumps the highway speed limit to 300MPH. Does that make your Ford Festiva run any faster?
 
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SkillaZattO

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Well, I was downloading in utorrent with 7.5MB/s, but sometimes downloads from chrome were much slower. I guess that answers my question, thanks :) Everything else seems to work fine suddenly, even internet benchmarks.
 
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