IP range being throttled?

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Firstly, apologies in advance if this is in the wrong forum, and that this is a bit of a long story but here goes!

I'm located in Diep River and have a 2mb connection via Cybersmart. For downloads I use file hosters exclusively, so no p2p usage at all.
Recently I've noticed that by download speeds from these hosters have fluctuated a lot resulting in many incomplete downloads.
At first I thought it's a line problem, but when I stream/download from something like Youtube then everything appears normal. No fluctuations at all.
Next, I thought maybe Cybersmart is being a bit sticky but they swear blindly that they are not throttling as it is http traffic and my usage is low (average maybe 3 gigs a week maximum). For now, taking them at their word.
Also I thought that it could be bad performance on the hosters' side but I downloaded the same file from the same location at the same time using a different ISP (wireless not ADSL) and it ran full speed with success.
The only other thing I can think of is that the hosters are throttling my IP, or an IP range seeing that it's dynamic (is this even possible?).
Cybersmart jumped in and put me on their 105 range hoping that this would solve it but the results are the same.

I'm really stumped here. Is there anything else I can try? Am I being really dof and overlooking something obvious?
Naturally don't want to point a finger at Telkom or Cybersmart if neither of them are to blame!

Hope somebody out there can help.
 
Try download a largish file from a local mirror via http and see if you get full speed.

Also bear in mind a lot of these hosters throttle the connection to 50Kbps for "free" connections. If you sign up to them (ie pay) you will get full speed.
 
Thanks guys,

gregmcc said:
Try download a largish file from a local mirror via http and see if you get full speed.

Also bear in mind a lot of these hosters throttle the connection to 50Kbps for "free" connections. If you sign up to them (ie pay) you will get full speed.
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Rickster said:
Use a download manager, it should help.
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I'm aware of the free versus paid option: It's the reason I use 180upload and Kingfiles (hope I'm allowed to mention). If they do limit their speeds, it's faster than my line because they always used to run flat out. I use them in conjunction with JDM and what's nice is that with these 2 sites you only need to do the Captcha once for each file so I would build a queue, start each download sequentially, input the captcha, stop each d/l after like a megabyte or so, rinse and repeat.
Once the captcha for the last file has been input I simply start at the beginning and walk away.

I will try downloading a file from a local source tonight and see how it goes. Any suggestions where to try?
 
I've been having speed issues for the past 2ish weeks now... Nothing seems to be working anymore. Can't even do skype calls with friends anymore because it keeps cutting out and dropping the call >_>
 
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