insane download speed (Sometimes)

[nitron64]

So, bear with me ; my first post.

 

I notice that sometimes I get far greater download and upload speed than my 4 Mbps cable connection. It is especially noticeable when using p2p clients.

Also when speed testing on Ookla I get almost identical speeds in both downloads and uploads on most servers.

 

While updating windows recently It jumped to a peak of 150 Mbps for a minute and averaged at about 60 Mbps for ten minutes.

 

Funny thing the update didn't even finish and got stuck at 69% with still a lot of bandwidth left.

 

I'm curious to know what causes this Internet OutBurst!!!

 

 

[johnny5c]

Do you have a second PC on your network that could have been feeding the Windows update?

[dalekphalm]

13 minutes ago, nitron64 said:

So, bear with me ; my first post.

 

I notice that sometimes I get far greater download and upload speed than my 4 Mbps cable connection. It is especially noticeable when using p2p clients.

Also when speed testing on Ookla I get almost identical speeds in both downloads and uploads on most servers.

 

While updating windows recently It jumped to a peak of 150 Mbps for a minute and averaged at about 60 Mbps for ten minutes.

 

Funny thing the update didn't even finish and got stuck at 69% with still a lot of bandwidth left.

 

I'm curious to know what causes this Internet OutBurst!!!

-snip-

Do you have Cable Internet? (DOCSIS 2.0 or higher)?

If so, some Cable ISP's use "burst" technology, where if the local (local as in neighbourhood) network has unused capacity, it will temporarily give a boost to any active users.

 

It's not particularly common in Canada anymore, but Rogers Cable used to implement it.

[nitron64]

19 hours ago, Julian2000nl said:

I believe what the task manager application shows is speed of your local area network. P2P protocols like BitTorrent often look for other BitTorrent connections to the same Torrent on the same network. Your devices also communicate with each other for the DHCP. 

 

If it's the internet speed. Well, your provider isn't very good at speed caps.

I have only a single pc on the home network. The provider is a local one who in turn leased it to the nearest Cable Operator and I do suspect that the network setup is not that secure.

19 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

Do you have Cable Internet? (DOCSIS 2.0 or higher)?

If so, some Cable ISP's use "burst" technology, where if the local (local as in neighbourhood) network has unused capacity, it will temporarily give a boost to any active users.

 

It's not particularly common in Canada anymore, but Rogers Cable used to implement it.

Yes, I have a Cable Internet. I don't know what standard they use.

 

Too bad the boost doesn't last longer.