radicalry00
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Registered: 16th Mar 07
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Just wondering if anyone could help me out.
I'm on AOL (stuck with them for another 12 months unfortunately) and recently all my downloads have been stuck at 35-40kb/s. I thought AOL might have been throttling my line but I've done a few speedtests and my speed comes out at 350kb/s and 50kb/s upload. Over the last few weeks I can only reach 40kb/s downloads though. It's odd.
Can anyone tell me why my speedtest result was 10x faster than what my computer will now download at? Could it be my internet / router settings?
Thanks in advance.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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It could be and probably is AOL throttling downloads and giving you full speed on speedtest sites.
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radicalry00
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Do they do that then? Allow you full speed on certain sites but limit your downloads? The cheeky twats....
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Dan Lewis
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
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Where are you downloading from?
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radicalry00
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I've tried lots of different sites. Tried downloading things like itunes from apple site, apps from sites like download.com and other stuff. Won't go any higher than 40kb/s. Torrents are the same too.
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dannymccann
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You might do well to not speed test your connection on torrents 
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radicalry00
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I haven't tested my speed on torrents. I just mentioned that my torrents stay below 40kb/s consistantly now whereas they used to go to 400kb/s+.
It must be AOL throttling my downloads tbh as I haven't messed with my settings or anything.
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_Allan_
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Because they'll throttle on ports. Port 80 and browsing will be full speed. Any other that's in use including torrents etc.... will be limited. That's what BT were doing anyway.
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radicalry00
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It's pathetic really as I don't really download that much anyway. Is there anyway to get round the problem and use different ports for torrents and downloads?
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_Allan_
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Nope the only one full speed probably is 80 and for HTTP browsing only. Torrent programs will use differnet ports to the generic ones used for TCP/IP etc..
Port 3389 (Terminal Services/Remote Desktop)
- Port 80 (HTTP)
- Port 443 (HTTPS)
- Port 21 (FTP)
- Port 22 (SSH)
- Port 110 (POP3)
- Port 25 (SMTP)
- Port 143 (IMAP)
- Port 587 (SMTP ALT)
- Port 53 (DNS)
and so on..
[Edited on 22-01-2009 by _Allan_]
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radicalry00
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OK thanks Allan. I'll just ring AOL and give them some abuse... Doubt it will work but it'll make me feel better shouting at some Indian customer service rep.
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