It has something to do with bandwidth shaping, P2P use and such.
Bob
Recently I notice I started to lag on a program named Ventrilo and also on games that I play. I decided to run a speed test and saw that my upload speed was at 70kb/s, when its usually around 250kb/s.
Anyone know what the problem could be?

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