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Got a question about download speeds

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Hey ya'll, I got a question and I hope you can help me out here. Well see I got cable so I have decent download speeds, my downloads usually start out very fast but for some reason they usually come to a crawl. So is there anyway to fix this? It's driving me nuts!

thanks for any help! :up:

-AloneTime
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Most likely, your download speed isn't really changing. The download speed displayed isn't the actual download speed. It is a rough guess based on the length of time it is taking to download the file vs. the total size of the file. This averaged time is updated about every second. The last speed is the most accurate for the download.

You can get an estimate of your speed from a site like www.speedguide.net, but that speed is based on the slowest point between you and the Speedguide servers, the time of day, the phases of the moon, sunspots, or anything else that could possibly interfere at that moment.

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