Am i being throttled?

Networking
1

I got a new ISP ~4-5 months ago, and this is starting to piss me off.
Everytime i use http’ish type of traffic, regardless of if it is windows, linux, etc etc. on my network i get horrid speeds, downloading a ubuntu .iso is at ~60-200kb/s.
If i install a game through steam im hitting 4-5mb/s no problem.
I called my ISP and gave them the wth speech, and in kind return gave me the “we would never throttle” speech.
Hell i had 4g internet before this and it ran circles around this crap.

basically what works:
youtube, steam.

what doesn’t work:
pretty much everything else.

I tried VPN’ing it through proton to Holland or what ever, but it is sort of the same scenario, except the latency increases.
this problem has been there ever since i changed ISP.
Any ideas?

2

How did you download that ISO?
I would recommend you try torrenting a FOSS programm of your choice and see that speeds you get there.

3

So you download games at 4-5 through the vpn and web traffic is still bad?

As for the http/https traffic is there a difference between those, what kind of results do you get on fast.com/speedtest.net etc.

4

which ISP?

I found that UPC/Virgin Media/Liberty Global (same ISP different countries), does this thing where it just slows down individual TCP streams after a few megs of data for certain random bulk downloads.

aria2c supports the –lowest-speed-limit. I try to use it for syncing big archives or downloading packages.

5

If DSL i would check how the phone line was wired into the house. On mine the phone line running under the house was wrapped around the power lines. My fater-in-law who used to install fiber optic cable saw that when we bought the house and laughed at how someone could do that. How it could really affect just a phone conversation.

I get the same thing when downloading from a place in New Zealand vs US vs TV on the ROKU. TV on the ROKU is georgous on the new 4k TV. Also the cats do like to beat up the DSL modem and attack the wires :slight_smile: