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What could be causing capped download speed?
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My download speed used to cap out at around 10 MBps. Now when ever I download something it caps out at around 7MBps. Does anybody have an idea what might be causing this aside from my ISP capping my download speed?
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If you try and download 2 files at the same time, do you get a speed of around 7 MBps on both or is the 7 MBps split between them?
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Is it an ongoing issue or is it something that is just happening that day. These kind of things can happen.
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Depends on what time you are downloading. Peak traffic times can slow down your speeds.

I wouldn't really worry to much about it, seeing as though you are on a 70-100 Mbps down anyway.

If you really wanted it topped you could all your ISp but they would probably tell you the same.

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ISPs use statistical multiplexing to sell more bandwidth than they actually have the hardware to support. They can sell a hundred 10 Mb/s connections, but they may only be able to handle 300 Mb/s at a time, so they slow everyone down if they need to.
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This doesn't just occur at a certain time in the day though, this download speed is consistent, as was my 10MBps before
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So when you do a speedtest it doesn't increase past 7Mbps?

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