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๖Ϝцzsioᴎ:
When I try to do things like watch a YouTube video, download something, it goes very slow, a 3 minute 360p video takes 10 minutes to buffer.
Speed test shows that my speeds are fine, and webpages load up fine, but download speed is extremely slow. Even on online games like Gmod and shit I can barely play because of the lag.
Help please.
ISP is charter, haven't called them up yet, but I should.
Speedtest results

Peetah:
Lets try and narrow down the problem.
Preform a ping test http://www.pingtest.net/

This will eliminate the chance that you might be losing a lot of your packages.

๖Ϝцzsioᴎ:

--- Quote from: Peetah on August 05, 2013, 10:01:32 PM ---Lets try and narrow down the problem.
Preform a ping test http://www.pingtest.net/

This will eliminate the chance that you might be losing a lot of your packages.

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Odd, it seems to be fine now, it's been like this for the past month so it's likely to become slow again, so I better enjoy it while it lasts.
I'll give you the results anyhow.


EDIT: Internet is not the speed I was promised with, 100kb/s is still decent but the fact I'm paying for 100kb/s instead of 5mb/s is bullshit.
During the day downlaods are around 20 - 50kb/s.

blαh2355:

--- Quote from: Ϝuzsioᴎ on August 05, 2013, 11:25:14 PM ---Odd, it seems to be fine now, it's been like this for the past month so it's likely to become slow again, so I better enjoy it while it lasts.
I'll give you the results anyhow.


EDIT: Internet is not the speed I was promised with, 100kb/s is still decent but the fact I'm paying for 100kb/s instead of 5mb/s is bullshit.
During the day downlaods are around 20 - 50kb/s.

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What? Are you sure you're not confusing with MB and Mb?

Bomb Squad:

--- Quote from: Ϝuzsioᴎ on August 05, 2013, 11:25:14 PM ---Odd, it seems to be fine now, it's been like this for the past month so it's likely to become slow again, so I better enjoy it while it lasts.
I'll give you the results anyhow.


EDIT: Internet is not the speed I was promised with, 100kb/s is still decent but the fact I'm paying for 100kb/s instead of 5mb/s is bullshit.
During the day downlaods are around 20 - 50kb/s.

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First of all, you're confusing megaBYTES with megaBITS.
Megabits are often used to measure the internet speed you're getting by your ISPs. 1 megabit is equal to one eighth of a megabyte - exactly 125kilobytes/s.
Megabytes are used to measure what speed you're downloading/uploading at. 1 megabytes is equal to 8 megabits, or 1024kilobytes.

Could you clarify what you're downloading? It could be an issue on their side, or it could be an issue with Charter themselves. Charter has been known to throttle your internet speed if you're using it excessively, if you go over your monthly usage limit, or if a large amount of people are using Charter at the same time (to prevent other people from being slow).

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