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Question

network fluctuation

Sep 3, 2015 4:44AM PDT

My problem is a peculiar one.
I have a 2mbps MTNL connection with Netgear N-150 router.
Since the past week I am noticing that although I can browse the internet at full speed (usually 230 kBps) and play youtube videos and download software also at full speed but i cannot play videos on other sites at the same speed. The speed drops to 10-30 kBps on other sites. Also, I have noticed the same speed drop on Apple Music service (both while online streaming and downloading).
The problem is on all my browsers.
I have installed adblock on all my browsers.
I use NetWorx to monitor my current upload and download speeds.
I have restored my laptop to a previous state but to no avail.
The problem persists in my computer also.
What do I do?

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Re: speed
Sep 3, 2015 4:57AM PDT

Maybe those video's on other sites only need 10-30 kBps to show in the quality you see and find OK. Then this isn't a problem.

Now take your laptop with you to a friend (or work or where-ever) and compare yours with his, both how the video looks and how many kBps is being used looking the same video from the same site (both simultaneously and separately). Let us know the outcome of this experiment.

Kees

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ISP or traffic
Sep 3, 2015 5:00AM PDT

Maybe the ISP is slowing certain sites people link to, called "throttling", also if they use a lot of bandwidth in a month they may "throttle" them. It often comes from their router being set to their DNS servers, but most have the ability to reset the router's DNS to one of their choosing. Common practice among those who know this is to use Google's DNS which is 8.8.8.8 and secondary is 8.8.4.4 and bypass their ISP's DNS server. Of course that is done in the router settings, so you need to know how to access it.

If not that, then somewhere in the pathway between you and those sites there's a bottleneck and you can use "tracert" command in a windows command box to see where the slowdown is.

Using Tracert

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tracert
Sep 3, 2015 11:19AM PDT

firsstly, thanks for the prompt reply.
using tracert was unhelpful.
i switched to google dns as you suggested.
it solved quite a few of my problems.
but apple music is slow to buffer and download.
i created a hotspot with my phone's network and apple music worked flawlessly then.
so, what i did is, i reset my modem and my wifi router but to no avail.
i have noticed that the problem still persists on sites that use flash player.
can that be the source of my problem?
thanks again.

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I didn't write on this. Why? "2mbps"
Sep 3, 2015 11:21AM PDT
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flash player
Sep 3, 2015 11:23AM PDT

also, youtube uses html5 and it is working fine.
so maybe flash is the problem.

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I wouldn't be surprised if flash
Sep 3, 2015 11:44AM PDT

It's on it's way out anyway, thankfully. Failed support in Linux use too. It has a fatal flaw that keeps requiring more and more patches since each new exploit of the flaw must be patched. They would need to completely redo "flash" to overcome the inbuilt exploit at this point, which means it's probably destined for the trash heap soon. Google "Fatal Falsh Flaw" and you will also see them claim to have fixed it, yet they didn't and new patches on latest exploits keep getting issued for it. They only patch "instances" of exploits targeting the flaw.

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Google Killing Flash, 3 days ago
Sep 4, 2015 5:24AM PDT