06-09-2013, 10:02 PM
Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing extremely slow downloads on Premium account?
Firstly let clarify that my Internet connection is capable of 4MB/s download speeds. I have tried JD, JD2 and DownloadThemAll and the behaviour with FF is the same.
What I am seeing is FF is throttling each session to around 20-50KB/s. So a single file with 5 chunks could Download at up to 250 KB/s. However in reality, it slows down to about half that. The real problem is the end of the transfer slows down to a crawl. If you monitor the progress you see 1 or 2 chunks stall completely. When the bulk of the chunks complete, the 2 remaining chunks will slow down to around 5 KB/s (or less even) and it will take hours to download the last 10mb or so. If you restart the transfer, sometimes the remaining chunks will speed up to around 20KB/s each if you are lucky!
I would be interested in hearing if anyone else is experiencing similar issues.
Firstly let clarify that my Internet connection is capable of 4MB/s download speeds. I have tried JD, JD2 and DownloadThemAll and the behaviour with FF is the same.
What I am seeing is FF is throttling each session to around 20-50KB/s. So a single file with 5 chunks could Download at up to 250 KB/s. However in reality, it slows down to about half that. The real problem is the end of the transfer slows down to a crawl. If you monitor the progress you see 1 or 2 chunks stall completely. When the bulk of the chunks complete, the 2 remaining chunks will slow down to around 5 KB/s (or less even) and it will take hours to download the last 10mb or so. If you restart the transfer, sometimes the remaining chunks will speed up to around 20KB/s each if you are lucky!
I would be interested in hearing if anyone else is experiencing similar issues.