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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle
Last week or so, I was downloading things pretty smoothly, but all of a sudden my dl speed dropped real low, now I'm lucky to get 15 kb/s, wtf happened? My internet speed/connection is fine, my downloads are just so slow.
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When you say your internet speed / connection is fine, by what are you determining this?
Anyway,
Depending on your ISP, you may be getting throttled. Have a look at their policy and whether they place a bandwidth cap or not after a certain amount of bandwidth has been used for the month. If your router has the capability, you can see how much bandwidth you've used for the month and check it against your ISP's limit, if there is one.
Failing that, I'd contact the ISP and describe your problem. They're in the position to determine the issue if it is indeed on their end. Least of all, you could determine whether it's them or not and/or if there's a known issue on their end.
Also, if you haven't already, test downloading from different places to determine whether it's a server-side issue or not.
If you're using a download manager, verify download speeds by testing your vanilla download w/o the manager.
Also run a check on speedtest.net to see what kind of numbers you're getting, if you haven't already. This will rule out server-side issues, as the speedtest servers accommodate far larger bandwidth bursts than a typical server hosting downloads.