Am I Being Throttled?

[Art3mis]

Hi Guys.

I'm currently with Mweb as my ISP, and have a Vuma fibre line with a 50mbps speed. I've recently upgraded my router and when doing speed tests I get consistently good results (usually never less than 45/50), but I noticed when I download series/movies during the evening, the actual download rate appears to only be as if I have a 10mbps speed line. When I do the speed test, it still shows me a good 45/50 result, however the actual download does not seem to match that speed.

Then, in the morning, the same download seems to go much faster, which seems to match the 50mbps speed I ordered.

Is the above indicative of being throttled/shaped, as I am unsure at this point. The actual package I took stipulated uncapped and unthrottled, however you never know with Mweb and their fair usage policy.

 

[DapperDanMan]

Yes.

however you never know with Mweb

And yes.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Speedtests never mean anything, all ISP's prioritize that traffic.
If you are using torrents or other p2p then its shaped for sure.

 

[VettieOriginal]

Hi Guys.

I'm currently with Mweb as my ISP, and have a Vuma fibre line with a 50mbps speed. I've recently upgraded my router and when doing speed tests I get consistently good results (usually never less than 45/50), but I noticed when I download series/movies during the evening, the actual download rate appears to only be as if I have a 10mbps speed line. When I do the speed test, it still shows me a good 45/50 result, however the actual download does not seem to match that speed.

Then, in the morning, the same download seems to go much faster, which seems to match the 50mbps speed I ordered.

Is the above indicative of being throttled/shaped, as I am unsure at this point. The actual package I took stipulated uncapped and unthrottled, however you never know with Mweb and their fair usage policy.

Okay, so no its not always the ISO

1. What are you downloading? Torrents work on seeds ect and all of that affects your download speed
2. The server you are downloading from capacity, good example Blizzard Net when COD has update guys with 200mb lines downloading at 258kb
3. One megabyte is equal to eight megabits, but the terms are used in specific ways: Megabits per second (mbps) are generally used to describe the speed of an Internet connection, whereas megabytes (MB) usually refer to the size of a file or storage space. so you van work on a factor of about 8 to get MB