« previous next » Print Pages: 1 Author Topic: Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds? (Read 7187 times) rooshooter RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 2887 Karma: 52 Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds? « on: December 03, 2019, 09:52:49 AM » I have a FTTP connection and paying for a Iinet/TPG 50/20 speed. Whenever I do a speed test the result is always close to the 50/20 I am paying for.However any download I undertake the MAXIMUM speed I can ever achieve is 5.7 Mbs, from Steam with no download speed limit set, from Rockstar Games Red Dead 2 ( took a day to download ).Is it possible for an ISP to be using some form of software to Throttle downloads speeds for any download other than a Speed test?Does anyone else have the same problem? It is really starting to shit me . Am I being ripped off.Test you speed downloading one of these fileshttps://www.internode.on.net/support/tools/speed_test/ « Last Edit: December 03, 2019, 10:15:59 AM by rooshooter » Logged social media is the tobacco of this century Seanus RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 1424 Karma: 74 ∞+1|ℵ₀ Seanus Re: Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds? « Reply #1 on: December 03, 2019, 10:49:08 AM » 5.7MB is 45.6mb. You didn't make that mistake in your post, but I mention it just incase. Logged I always knew the Sun shone out of my arse. Sean's bum is an anagram of Sunbeams. rooshooter RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 2887 Karma: 52 Re: Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds? « Reply #2 on: December 03, 2019, 12:33:42 PM » Quote from: GzeroD on December 03, 2019, 10:49:08 AM5.7MB is 45.6mb. You didn't make that mistake in your post, but I mention it just incase.As usual you are right Seanus I have mixed up Bits and Bytes .Why do I think 5.7MB is slow, I am sure ADSL2+ download speeds were faster, or is that just wishful thinking. Logged social media is the tobacco of this century Bird Administrator Hero Member Posts: 2324 Karma: -666 Ysu Re: Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds? « Reply #3 on: December 04, 2019, 12:37:24 PM » Quote from: rooshooter on December 03, 2019, 12:33:42 PMQuote from: GzeroD on December 03, 2019, 10:49:08 AM5.7MB is 45.6mb. You didn't make that mistake in your post, but I mention it just incase.As usual you are right Seanus I have mixed up Bits and Bytes .Why do I think 5.7MB is slow, I am sure ADSL2+ download speeds were faster, or is that just wishful thinking.Heavily wishful. No adsl2 was able to do 40+mbps (megabits per second). But software is getting bigger, that may give the impression that things are slower. Red Dead 2 is enormous, so...But since you've fttp/ftth, you could get 100 or even 150 or 250 downstream connections (admittedly, the over-100 connections are rare) Logged rooshooter RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 2887 Karma: 52 Re: Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds? « Reply #4 on: December 04, 2019, 03:13:27 PM » Quote from: Bird on December 04, 2019, 12:37:24 PMQuote from: rooshooter on December 03, 2019, 12:33:42 PMQuote from: GzeroD on December 03, 2019, 10:49:08 AM5.7MB is 45.6mb. You didn't make that mistake in your post, but I mention it just incase.As usual you are right Seanus I have mixed up Bits and Bytes .Why do I think 5.7MB is slow, I am sure ADSL2+ download speeds were faster, or is that just wishful thinking.Heavily wishful. No adsl2 was able to do 40+mbps (megabits per second). But software is getting bigger, that may give the impression that things are slower. Red Dead 2 is enormous, so...But since you've fttp/ftth, you could get 100 or even 150 or 250 downstream connections (admittedly, the over-100 connections are rare)I was also thinking the same Bird , software has really bloated, tracks for AC are now often well over 100Mbytes. I think I have become confused with the downloads speeds I was getting when I first connected to the NBN four and a half years ago, I think initially I was getting up to 30+ Mbytes/sec downloads, even though my connection was only 50/20, and over time the network has become congested and DLs are now throttled. Logged social media is the tobacco of this century Bird Administrator Hero Member Posts: 2324 Karma: -666 Ysu Re: Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds? « Reply #5 on: December 04, 2019, 03:23:50 PM » Even on a 100/50 you'll only get 10-12MB/s (megaBytes) at best. I can achive that with multi-threaded downloads eg via Steam or torrents. Only if the server on the other end does not throttle connections, and if the server isn't overseas.30MB/s ~ 240mbps, at that speed you'd start noticing other hardware limits on your local network / hard drive, etc, even windows drivers can eff up (been there). It's really proper fast.ADSL2 was ~24mbps tops (but that was on a line no more than a few meters long) so most would only be able to achieve half of that at best on average. Maybe you recall ~3MB/s (ADSL, if you were extremely close to the exchange).Or possibly it was on your NBN in the early days, but it wasn't multi-threaded download so it did not use the full bandwidth. « Last Edit: December 04, 2019, 03:28:09 PM by Bird » Logged Print Pages: 1 « previous next » Xtreme Gaming Network / General Category / General Discussion / Are ISPs using "Throttle Gate" to limit download speeds?