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Lately I've had this issue where anything and everything I download through a browser is at a ridiculously bad speed - usually no more than 50 kb/s. Luckily most large things have a small download client that then proceeds to download off itself....
You see my internet speed averages 10mb/s down and 1.5 mb/s up. I've often started up a Steam download right as my browser download refuses to go any higher than for example the 16 kb/s firefox is downloading at right now, just to check my available bandwidth, and the download speed is always perfectly normal. For example, Dota 2 is currently installing at just over 1 mB/s (yes that's Bytes not bits). Any and every game I try to install off its own download client always downloads at expected rates... not these retarded dial up rates that happen in IE, FF, and Chrome.
I considered that perhaps the download server is bad, but come on. There's no way Nvidia, Mozilla, Blizzard, etc have servers that can only serve you shit at dial up rates.
I had actually considered that perhaps I somehow contracted some malware despite having literally no shady software or have usage practices that would be easy to contract malware with, as my computer in the last 2 weeks started randomly tabbing me out of programs at times for no apparent reason (no Windows alert, nothing - even tabs me out when in windowed fullscreen rather than fullscreen...). Add to that a completely random restart last night that was not due to Windows update or any other attributable source, and I got a bit suspicious (although there were no unknown processes running, but of course it could be wrapped or w/e).
So, I reformatted my computer today completely. But, this shitty browser download speed problem persists. Any ideas what is going on?
edit - Should also clarify that sometimes pages even load at dial up speeds, whilst the internet is perfectly blazing fast. Also, lol @ nvidia 310.90 driver taking 6 hours to download atm.... for a total of 215 mb =_=
edit 2 - Interesting thing I noted while reformatting... my backup partition had somehow wiped itself without my input. Also, what's that program that lets you monitor things like CPU, GPU, I/O, and network usage by process? Had it a while ago that I used to monitor things... can't remember what it was called. Would hate to be a bot atm -_-
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There's a button to launch the "resource monitor" in the Windows task manager on the performance tab. That resource monitor thingy can do that, showing what the processes do regarding network, disk, etc. You could also try "Sysinternals Process Explorer". I think in Process Explorer, you can activate an additional (hidden by default) column that shows network usage for the processes, and try to find out if a program does something fishy.
The only idea I have about your strange problem is, perhaps you have a http proxy from your ISP in the browser settings, and that thing is very slow? You can access that from the Internet Explorer menu, or search in the Control Panel for "internet options", go to the "Connections" tab, click on on "LAN settings" at the bottom. That Internet Options stuff are basically Internet Explorer settings, but Firefox, for example, does borrow those proxy settings for its own defaults.
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Just checked in Chrome, no proxy settings. And besides, even if somehow I had some before (which I would never set up, but say somehow a 3rd party program did it), I'd imagine a reformat would've wiped it out.
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Perhaps your ISP does something weird for http? Perhaps they gave you your router and configured a transparent proxy on that thing? You could try a VPN service once, to see if the browsers work correctly over that connection. This one has a short, free trial: https://mullvad.net/en/
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On January 10 2013 08:59 Ropid wrote: Perhaps your ISP does something weird for http? Perhaps they gave you your router and configured a transparent proxy on that thing? I've had the modem for quite a while, and bought my own router. And neither are so new as the problem itself, which appeared about 2 weeks ago. Curiously, Windows updates are downloading just as slowly as http.
edit - Well, my nvidia driver download is still slightly suboptimal (maybe about 50% of the speed I'd expect, but hey, it's a 40x improvement over not using that VPN lol)
edit 2 - So, what can I do to confirm your theory (aside from that VPN working miracles), and specifically what proxy I'm going through?
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So the VPN worked? It's normal if it's not your full speed. The server is somewhere in the Netherlands or Sweden after all. I think you should mail your ISP. They are doing something, breaking HTTP traffic, and the VPN works because what you are doing over the VPN is completely hidden from them.
I tried searching with Google, and there isn't much about your problem. There is some dude in New Zealand last year having those problems, and someone answered him, their ISP does use a transparent proxy, catching all HTTP traffic and routing that through their proxy.
Another guy from somewhere else, got the suggestion to try other DNS servers. DNS from your ISP could be your problem, and the VPN service replaces DNS while its running with its own. You could try that: Google's public DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. This document mentions the IPv6 addresses, too, if you need them: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using
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DNS has nothing to do with bandwidth.
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Yes, I didn't think about it, just parroted stuff from the search. The 100 MB (or whatever it is) driver download being slow because of DNS does not make sense.
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Well, then this will make even less sense. Downloading HotS installer from blizzard takes 40 minutes normal, 2 minutes with Google DNS.
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Bittorrent shouldn't have anything to do with DNS? I think the trackers give you a list of IPs to try to download from, not host names.
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The installer itself isn't torrented I think... I mean the installer you download from account settings at us.battle.net or eu.battle.net, not the game installer itself - rather, the thing that installs the installer. Although I still don't know why using Google DNS would make the http part of it download 20x faster... doesn't seem to make any sense.
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On January 10 2013 10:44 Garnet wrote:try IDM Download managers.... so 2001. Seems like it's skirting around the issue.
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