Should I be concerned when my download speed hits KBPS? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Ryoae@piefed.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So while I was trying to download Nintendo games through a source and through VPN. Things started well with one game that took 8 minutes to download at 11MBps. When downloading another game, it got to 93% and immediately started going to 200 ~ 500kbps and was going to take longer.

Has anyone dealt with this before and should it be a cause for concern? Anytime this has happened to me, I assume something or someone was on to me and immediately have to abort.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

A few years ago I was torrenting a large collection of games without a VPN. It wasn't subtle at all. My internet connection kept getting slower and slower. I had to repeatedly restart the download for it to finish.

Afterwards my internet was totally busted. I called my ISP to complain. They walked me through some debugging but I could tell it was bullshit. Suddenly my internet started working. After I got off the phone, I got an automated text from the ISP that my internet had been reactivated.

So yeah. They can/will block your internet for downloading stuff. Use a VPN.

[-] remon@ani.social 5 points 23 hours ago

Has anyone dealt with this before and should it be a cause for concern?

I once downloaded a 450+ GB torrent at those speeds ... took like half a year.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 21 hours ago

Bro what the fuck. What were you downloading and why hahahah. I feel at some point you just fold and bring a hard drive to wherever the files already exist and then bring it back to your machine.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago

Traffic shapers can prioritize connections or streams differently, even if they can’t see inside them. Higher priority for quick connections, like interactive web page views, diminished priority for “oops that’s actually a bulk download it seems”.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Downloading how? Maybe the server is just slow.

If they were on to you, you wouldn't know until you either got a letter or someone showed up with a warrant.

[-] Ryoae@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I don't torrent, but I usually do DDLs. Some of them will require premium accounts for better speeds of course. Other times you're relegated to just slow agonizing speeds that brings you back to those lovely days of Dial-Up!

[-] DrMartinu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Well there's your problem. Those direct download sites will also impose things like daily download limits. Maybe you get 10Mbps for the first 10GB every 24 hr, and after 10GB you're dropped to 100kbps. Something like that. Couple it with a VPN and you're sharing that 10GB limit with total randos