Router dying or is it a throttling issue?

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chaosmachine420

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Just recently I am having trouble with videos both on YouTube now and other sites that wont always load right away or takes forever to get the video to load on a wired connection. Along with that problem if they do load fast they have to be on the lowest video quality. I have had other problems with my net slowing down to a crawl, so I could never tell if this was possible my router giving out. I also have tested my speeds on both speedtest.net and testmy.net for more accurate file speeds. I have an Linksys EA4500 router with a Comcast rented Gateway put in bridged mode. Is there anyway this is the sign of my router dying or is Comcast throttling my internet?
 
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Do the speed test sites match what the ISP has said you should get in the plan you pay for.

ISP know youtube and netflix are the some of the most popular sites. It is unlikely they would throttle those since they know if they did many people would cancel their services. What other reason would you pay for a high speed internet connection for if they block all the popular sites.

Now if you said you were running torrent that some ISP try to limit because it is used mostly for illegal activities.

Try to download some larger files from microsoft....the iso image for win10 is huge and you could watch the rates over a fairly long time and see what you get. No ISP would ever limit microsoft.
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Do the speed test sites match what the ISP has said you should get in the plan you pay for.

ISP know youtube and netflix are the some of the most popular sites. It is unlikely they would throttle those since they know if they did many people would cancel their services. What other reason would you pay for a high speed internet connection for if they block all the popular sites.

Now if you said you were running torrent that some ISP try to limit because it is used mostly for illegal activities.

Try to download some larger files from microsoft....the iso image for win10 is huge and you could watch the rates over a fairly long time and see what you get. No ISP would ever limit microsoft.
 
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