The internet is SLOW!

This is starting to suck. Lately I haven't been too happy about all of this. Cause I watch a lot of online videos. But it's frustrating.

Basically what I'm saying is that you may think about going to get a speed test, and getting results like this.

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But if you go watch some videos online and want to watch in HD, you get this instead. :blink:

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Seems sites be throttling the download speed to less than 3Mbps which means... I have to watch videos in the worst way possible... NOT IN 60FPS. :wtf:

It sucks doesn't it? Reason why it matters to me, is cause I still have to pay for the internet if I want to use it. The price isn't gonna get a discount for this since it has nothing to do with them. If it did, then I be okay with that, it's called compensation. But that's not the case at least for me. Also sometimes I like being able to skip to certain parts of the video without having to wait for a loading screen every time. I can't watch twitch live streams at 60FPS or it will just not play smoothly.

Well, I don't know if every website is like this, but I know it's been this way for youtube and twitch which i do use frequently. So if you know any other popular websites that has been doing this, feel free to list them below. Some of you may not think it's a big deal, but that's fine. I don't expect everyone to agree.
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@nolimits59 Might want to read the op next time. ;)

@ThoD That is not accurate. I use Firefox and it 100% plays 60fps videos from YouTube just fine. I can tell it works fine because the soap opera effect is in full gear when watching 60fps live action videos.
 
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Didnt paid attention to the second screen yeah, so I went to youtube and tried a 8k60fps video, same result, got approx 600mb/s.

Got 900mb/s on Netflix's speed test (fast.com).

Youtube is not throttling quarantined countries (i'm in one of them), they might have server issues but not on purpose.

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If you use torrents or what ever else then you dont get buffering. Yall paying for a service and getting buffered. I dont pay for any streaming service and i get full 1080p 60fps. lol. keep getting screwed my friends
 
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I'm not sure how much sympathy I have... My 3mb/s adsl is about as unreliable as ever & there are a fair few more users on the internet at the moment for some reason.....
 
I blame the internet of things. Everyone needs to take their microwave ovens and color TVs off the wifi.
 
Looks like a driver problem actually, but I guess it could be isp related throttling for whatever reason
 
ISP might be throttling because if they didn't then all the streaming would be a denial of service attack
 
@smf throttling wouldnt save services from "natural DDOS" of massive amount of viewers, even if you have 50ko/s of bandwith.
And no one is throttling it currently.

@Captain_N Torrent are tracked online by a lot of countries, especially in europe, you can get caught and pay for illegal download of music/movies or books. And using a VPN with unlimited data and good speed would be the same as paying for netflix so...

I personnaly use a unlocker that handle torrents, i pay 25€ a year to get unlimited streaming from unlocked links, torrents are downloaded and uploaded to up2box and unlocked directly, links are copy/pastable into VLC instantly and you can share them to friends etc.
 
@nolimits59 netflix themselves are throttling in europe. It will depend on your ISP, it's contention ratio, current demand and whatever traffic shaping they have implemented that will depend on what speeds you get.

Certainly some ISPs will be traffic shaping video during the day in areas to allow people to work from home.
 
@smf they're not, i'm in france, getting between 200-350Mb/s on netflix on regular video playback.
And i'm getting 950Mb/s on their speedtest (fast.com)
 
The only slow internet I know of is back in the day when I was dial up. Nothing is slower than that.
 
I shouldn't be surprised that nobody read your post. Several people just looked at your first picture and called you out. When if they literally just looked at the second picture also they'd see your problem. They're the ones looking dumb right now aren't they?
 
@ericzander I think some people just have no idea just what can affect speed on the internet. Your line rate, the bandwidth to an isp server for running a speed test & the bandwidth available at the host can be pretty irrelevant, often it's the other half a dozen hops.

And isp's might be overcautious with streaming when they are trying to keep vpn's, skype/zoom/whatsapp etc viable.
 

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