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Sometimes my ISP goes insane...

13 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/sometimes-my-isp-goes-insane.192039/

blackpearl
blackpearl Original post #1
Jun 12, 2015 at 9:27 PM
... and gives me speeds such as this

*i.imgur.com/jTxSygl.png

This happens every now and then. A 700MB movie downloads in about 4 minutes. :)

I should actually be getting speeds of 1Mbps, which I do most of the time. But then it goes crazy for a few hours.
K
Jun 13, 2015 at 12:26 PM
What's your isp? And me jelly lol
W
Jun 13, 2015 at 12:34 PM
700mb in around 4 min is approx 23mbps speed which is not much(purely from technical point of view).i used to download at this speed back in 2008 using a corporate connection.this probably happens because of some system maintenance resulting in temporary removal of speed limits on connections.
blackpearl
Jun 13, 2015 at 5:28 PM
@whitestar: maybe that's the reason, but even 23mbps is a lot when I'm paying only for 1mbps.
[MENTION=137025]kalam_gohab[/MENTION]: it's a local ISP but I can't reveal it here, least some technician from the ISP is lurking and sees it. I don't want to lose my benefit.
Gauravs90
Jun 13, 2015 at 6:22 PM
My local ISP have local cache server so that I can download anything on cache server for 32 mbps which is pretty much everything latest on torrents.
Hrishi
Hrishi #6
Jun 13, 2015 at 6:59 PM
I get full 100mbps bandwidth for cached torrents and at times when maintainance is going on i get around 70-80mbps.
Its a local isp.
There was a month where my subscription expired and i enjoyed almost a month of such speeds.
vidhubhushan
Jun 14, 2015 at 5:46 PM
nothing such happens in airtel except once the speed got restored past free data limit for 2 days :(
tanmaymohan
Jun 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM
It happens occasionally for MTNL broadband too. The website for checking data usage goes down and I get 2mbps full (after FUP)
kARTechnology
Jun 14, 2015 at 8:58 PM
it happened for me when i was new to fiber...got insane speeds of 50mbps on a 4mps connection(fiber)
i was like :shock: and starred at speedtest not knowing what to download.
V
vineet09 #10
Jun 15, 2015 at 4:29 AM
I get full 100mbps bandwidth for cached torrents and at times when maintainance is going on i get around 70-80mbps.
Its a local isp.
There was a month where my subscription expired and i enjoyed almost a month of such speeds.

can you tell me more about what is your isp? i am also looking for high speed and high fup
Hrishi
Hrishi #12
Jun 16, 2015 at 8:02 AM
can you tell me more about what is your isp? i am also looking for high speed and high fup
Don't go for it. It has serious stability and customer service issues.
I am planning on leaving it already.
B
Blue Leaf #13
Jun 16, 2015 at 1:07 PM
Recently something similar happened with me. My connection speed is 1 mbps (9am - 1am) and 4 mbps (1-am - 9am)
But i get 4 mbps all the time :-D Am currently paying Rs.884/month

Some added benefits almost everything on torrent/youtube/steam games / some direct download sites are cached. These contents gets downloaded at 100 mbps