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2008-02-15, 06:55 PM | #1 |
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Los Angeles, California
Posts: 637
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My Downloading Conspiracy Theory
Does anyone else out there have Charter Cable for Internet service? I have a conspiracy theory that when I go to download sponsor content, all the sudden my signal goes from 54 MBPS to 11 then 20 and bouncing around between 1 MBPS and 48 MBPS until the downloads are done. Am I trippin' here? I know recently there was a thread about 5% of the users download 90% of the bandwidth or something, but is this happening to anyone else or have I been starting at this computer too long? I swear it only happens when I start downloading more than like 5 one minute clips at a time....
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2008-02-15, 07:51 PM | #2 | |
Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 22
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2008-02-16, 02:44 PM | #3 |
That'll teach you to leave your sister unattended.....
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Some broadband carriers use bandwidth management schemes that slow down large down/up-loads in order to allow for "burst" traffic. This keeps the average surfers pages loading quickly but sucks for large file transfers. It's all an issue of how the ISP manages it's bandwidth use.
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