Fed up... with download speed

[boleyd]

Power Usage

A couple of things. I have had FCTs for years. Early on it was faster than the cable company. Then they kept increasing the rates at no cost, which is befuddling. I now get the claimed 70megabits Mb per second on a speed test. N3V seems to run at 37Mbs. As mentioned the number of black boxes that the signal transits is an issue. Do a Trace function to see all the hops. Also, I use a direct connection to the router from the PC no wi-fi.

I never turn off the PC. Yes it consumes electricity but I have it timed to go to sleep at around 11pm. Power on, but consuming less.
I do not turn off the PC because of "thermal cycling". Heat rising and falling changes the shape of all the components and the motherboard. Most are super tiny. However the CPU has the tiniest, and smallest (fragile), connections as well as the hottest element. Taking from my max of 98c down to room temperature and back to 98c in the morning, to me, is risky. I have close to 5 years on this CPU and MANY times I have run it at its temperature throttle level of 98c for hours. It was by mistake but did so for around 5 days. The CPU is also overclocked from 3.4ghz up to 4ghz so I should be more careful.

In the Dark Ages of computing I fixed Univac-I and Univac-494 computers (very big). NEVER turned them off except for the Univac-I where you had to step into the computer to make a test or change. These were vacuum tubes that were lighted all the time. There was 850 volts on those vacuum tubes from a supply that could provide 100s of amps. Nuts to thermal issues if you had to go inside the cabinet. That combo of volts and amps was much more effective than an electric chair.

Windows10 settings has the power profiles you can set.

 

[Crawdaddy6.0]

New to post on the forum but not super new to Trainz. The other day I downloaded Trains19 and started my 30 day trial of the FCT. Initially, 2 items from the DLS downloaded quickly and smoothly. However, last night around 8pm, I attempted to download a Russian 2te10m loco. It started off quick like the other 2, but when it reached approx. 1/4 way through, it began slowing down. From 500kb/s, aaallll the way down to now, at the time of me writing this, to 706 bytes/s. It is currently 1301 my time. Can anyone explain why this is even though I have a fct?

 

[Christopher824]

You can check the status of the Trainz servers here;
https://www.auran.com/planetauran/FTP_Status_Log.php

It shows no issues, so maybe it's something on your side like your ISP or something?

 

[Crawdaddy6.0]

You can check the status of the Trainz servers here;
https://www.auran.com/planetauran/FTP_Status_Log.php

It shows no issues, so maybe it's something on your side like your ISP or something?

Nope, my internet is running fine. 5g at 866Mbps (hope I'm saying that right ). Good on memory space as well

 

[wreeder]

Like any connection on the Internet, you are limited to the slowest link in the path between you and the other end. The speed you in theory have between you and your ISP may be constant (it really isn't, hence the use of the term "up to" in the marketing) but once you enter the ISP's network you are sharing bandwidth with every other customer they have using their connection to the backbone of the Internet. Those backbone connections are very expensive (think tens of thousands a months) so ISPs oversell the bandwidth counting on not all their customers using the available bandwidth at the same time. But we live in an age of streaming and at certain hours of the day there are simply more users using more bandwidth than is available. Think rush hour traffic. Now the same is true on the other end of the connection at the datacenter where the DLS server is located. It has a limited amount of bandwidth available for all the servers at that location to share. Now datacenters don't oversell their bandwidth as badly as ISPs do because servers use a lot of bandwidth both upstream and downstream and therefore bandwidth in a datacenter is very expensive due to less customers sharing the cost of the backbone connection. But there can also be bottlenecks there as well. Remember there is a constant 24/7 barrage of bots hitting every device on the Internet and datacenters are a prime target. Add to that DDOS attacks that spring up almost daily and things can slow down quickly at any node that your connection to the DLS server is passing through.

And don't forget that everything you do on the Internet today is monitored by the NSA, CIA, EPA, FBI, CCP and dozens of corporations that hope to profile you based on your Internet usage to make more money and to root out traitors to the glorious cause of the WEF. (Just kidding, I hope)

 

[JCitron]

Like any connection on the Internet, you are limited to the slowest link in the path between you and the other end. The speed you in theory have between you and your ISP may be constant (it really isn't, hence the use of the term "up to" in the marketing) but once you enter the ISP's network you are sharing bandwidth with every other customer they have using their connection to the backbone of the Internet. Those backbone connections are very expensive (think tens of thousands a months) so ISPs oversell the bandwidth counting on not all their customers using the available bandwidth at the same time. But we live in an age of streaming and at certain hours of the day there are simply more users using more bandwidth than is available. Think rush hour traffic. Now the same is true on the other end of the connection at the datacenter where the DLS server is located. It has a limited amount of bandwidth available for all the servers at that location to share. Now datacenters don't oversell their bandwidth as badly as ISPs do because servers use a lot of bandwidth both upstream and downstream and therefore bandwidth in a datacenter is very expensive due to less customers sharing the cost of the backbone connection. But there can also be bottlenecks there as well. Remember there is a constant 24/7 barrage of bots hitting every device on the Internet and datacenters are a prime target. Add to that DDOS attacks that spring up almost daily and things can slow down quickly at any node that your connection to the DLS server is passing through.

And don't forget that everything you do on the Internet today is monitored by the NSA, CIA, EPA, FBI, CCP and dozens of corporations that hope to profile you based on your Internet usage to make more money and to root out traitors to the glorious cause of the WEF. (Just kidding, I hope)

I have definitely seen drop offs in the late afternoon and evenings when people come home from school and put their computers on. My connection is slow until about 11:00 pm when my neighbors go to sleep then the network speeds up substantially and it remains that way until about 2:30 pm. This is a broadband connection and not DSL which means my neighborhood is sharing the cable with us. When we had DSL, we had a super fast connection because the home office switch was less than a mile away.

When we first got Comcast, I was still hooked up via a hub and not a switch because switches were way too expensive long before Comcast provided anything else except for the simple modem. I setup my newly acquired "scrapped" Sun SPARC stations and ran snoop /promiscuous. Seeing some of the places that my neighborhood visited was beyond just embarrassing.