Downloads start fast, and quickly reduce speed

July 25th, 2016

Hello, just wondering if maybe someone has a possible solution or some input on a little issue of mine. I’m on a wireless connection (yeah, problem number one, I know) and my downloads start off very quick, they’ll maintain <1mb/sec for about a minute, and then drop to 50-100kb/sec. I’ve got an ethernet cord running from my desktop into an Asus 4-1 Wireless access point/gateway/adapter. The downloads start off so well, and then go to crap, so I know that there is the potential to download at excellent speeds on the wireless connection.
Is there a solution, or is this just the nature of a wireless connection, extreme fluctuation?
Any input would be helpful, Thank you.
Answer #1
Try to cut off the power of your modem and router for a minute, then plug it back in.
Are you downloading torrents or over a P2P-network? Then consider to enable and configure port forwarding on your router.
Answer #2
IF torrents then try uTorrent..
Check your speed via speedtest.net
IF not torrents, use IDM
Answer #3
What’s the connection speed/bandwidth assigned to you by your ISP ?
Ping your router, then the DNS and another domain like google.com and report how much
packet loss you have .
ping -n 100 [IP/domainname]
e.g. ping -n 50 google.com
sends 50 echo requests to google.com

Answer #4

nan0x1 wrote: Select all

Try to cut off the power of your modem and router for a minute, then plug it back in.
Are you downloading torrents or over a P2P-network? Then consider to enable and configure port forwarding on your router.
I’m downloading from Megaupload and Rapidshare premium accounts. My ISP plan is Verizon Fiber Optics. When hardwired, I download from file hosting websites at 2-2.6mbps. My speed assigned to me are 20MB down and 12mb up.
I use flashget for my downloads, and I have it set so that each file has 10 simultaneous connections to the website I am downloading from.
Here are my ping test results
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
    Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 91, Lost = 9 (9% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 58ms, Maximum = 426ms, Average = 170ms
Ping statistics for 74.125.19.104:
    Packets: Sent = 50, Received = 48, Lost = 2 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 149ms, Maximum = 359ms, Average = 236ms
Answer #5
You can also try to change the wifi-channel (in your router config), the signal could be interfered by some other radio signal.
Answer #6
I changed the frequency band to 8. My download floated at 1.5MBPS for about 20 seconds, and is now steadily hovering in the 100-200kb range. Which is the least common frequency, or best to use?
Answer #7
I have isolated the issue, but I still need assistance for a solution to it.
Here is a few lines from my Flashget log.
Thu Jan 21 18:01:05 2010 Wait 3 second for retry
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Connecting www902.~ Dead file host ~ [IP=69.5.93.76:80]
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Connected.
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 GET /files/7826decc1902aeaeec7ab72e2ff5180d/Indiana.Jones.And.The.Raiders.Of.The.Lost.Ark_1981_DvDrip_Eng_-aXXo.avi HTTP/1.1
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Host: www902.~ Dead file host ~
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Accept: */*
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Referer: http://www.google.com?t=1759150&highlight=
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98)
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Range: bytes=701141082-
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Pragma: no-cache
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Cache-Control: no-cache
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Authorization: Basic RGFhdGgyMTpzbGF5ZXI=
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Connection: close
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 HTTP/1.0 503 Connection Overflow
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Retry-After: 120
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Content-Type: text/html
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 Error occured!
Basically, I’ve got each file with 10 connections to the website. I get great download speeds when all connections are live and well. For whatever reason, a thread will lose connection, and then be unable to re-connect. The idea is to be able to keep all threads connected, or be able to re-connect without a hitch. What would be causing this issue, and what is a possible fix? Is there a setting in Flashget I can tweak? Perhaps it’s time to try a new download manager? Any input would be great, thank you!
Answer #8
Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 2010 HTTP/1.0 503 Connection Overflow
It has nothing to do with your connections. Possible reasons: too many downloads from the server .
I've got each file with 10 connections to the website.
10 chunks for each download ? ——
You are using a mix of small and capital letters like
I download from file hosting websites at 2-2.6mbps. My speed assigned to me are 20MB down and 12mb up.
mbps (megabits per second) is only 1/8 of MBs. This makes a big difference ! ( I prefer Mbits/s and MB/s )
In general it’s quite normal for downloads to start with high speeds and then slow down. This happens always
when ISP “caps” the speeds.
Weird is that you get better pings from internet that your local network ?! If the results you posted are from a ping test at the same time then the fluctuations are high !

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