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Old 2008-06-13, 08:31 PM
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Is my ISP capping my DL speed?

I recently changed ISP providers. I had Sympatico for years, and thought the speeds were pretty good for DSL.

I went with a new ISP last month because Sympatico no longer offered unlimited bandwidth.

To get to the point, I noticed an immediate reduction in DL and UL speeds. With Sympatico I maxed out at over 600kbps, when there were shitloads of seeders. Speeds of over 200 kbps were common. UL speeds capped out at about 80 kbps, which was plenty good enough for me.

With the new ISP, my UL AND DL speeds maxed out at 150 kbps TOTAL. Two days ago, those speeds went down to 40 kbps. I called tech support earlier, he told to delete temporary files, cookies, history, which I had already done, but I still get the same shit speeds.

Sympatico, BTW, was 5 mb DL, the new one is supposed to be 7 mb, and I get dial up speeds.

The tech guy said they would check the line etc, etc, I remember the same thing happened with Sympatico initially before I started to get decent speeds.

And get this: if I am DL with Bitcomet at 40 kbps, pages will take ten seconds to load, sometimes they don't load fully, they just hang. If I close BC, the pages load fast. When BC is on it takes me forever to connect to Yahoo messenger, when BC is off, I log on instantly.

Is there any way to know if these fuckers are capping my speeds, and if so, is there a way to get around it?
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