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Originally Posted by kane
Last summer I caught my ISP throttling my service during prime time hours. I pay for 50mbs but from 7-10pm I would be lucky to get 5mbs. At first, they didn't believe me so I did a bunch of tests and found that it only slowed down during those hours.
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I know that back in the 1990's I had just gotten the brand "new" internet cable connection in the little town I was living in.
Before that it was 56K dial up.
So I was super happy to have 1 MB download speed! It was like a whole new world opened up. lol
But they told me then that as more and more people got it...it would slow down like any other network and they would have to add more switches to get it back up to speed.
Maybe that's what happened with your local provider? They might not have been "throttling" you...they may have simply not have enough to handle the amount of bandwidth happening at the peak hours. And then after enough complaints, they went ahead and spent money to upgrade and fix your problem.
That's my theory.
