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yep, both patton and I know about them, we're network engineers ourselves. While you are correct about the presence of the start and stop bits (more so with DSL than cable), they are not actually part of the data packet, and that is where you went wrong in your previous statement.

 

Tboi: You're from Europe like me so you suffer the same as I do, the congestion of the Trans-Atlantic Cable. Basically only so much can be transferred between Europe and the US, sometimes it's full, other times it's not. The best I can say is to try at hours where the US is sleeping or try again at random times.

Though right now I get 500 KB/s so it shouldn't be THAT slow.

 

he may still be using a different route that is congested elsewhere, or may just be a damn inefficient route.

 

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if we were having some routing issues, I'll have Jarrett look into it.

Jarrett, please look into it.

 

I didn't do it, no-one saw me do it, you can't prove anything

 

Well Tboi not everything about the internet is under our control, sadly.
I can say that we, at the time of posting this, are using 32mbit of out connection, we've pushed 122mbit before.
When I start a download right now I get 60kb/s. Earlier we were using the same bandwidth but I was getting 500kb/s, so obviously it's external factors that's doing this. Perhaps it's bad routing, perhaps it's congested cross atlantic cable, there could be a number of factors out of our control causing this.

 

Okay everyone with speed issues please post a trace route here or in a send on to me in a PM.

start>run>cmd> 'tracert www2.romulation.net > c:\tracert.txt'

Copy the contents of C:\tracert.txt onto here or into a PM and send it to me.