Slower Speeds on Bigger FIles/Formats???
BROOKLYNDHL
Newbie

For the most part, my internet speed is fine, but I have noticed on multiple sites that if the file size I'm downloading is bigger than 15MB, the download takes exponentially longer.  What's going on here?  A 5MB download takes 30 seconds say, but the first 5MB of 300MB file takes 20 minutes???  and the 300 MB will 8-12 hours???

Are their data caps or limits on single file size or file types?

It shouldn't take 12 hours to download a piece of software.  This is crazy.

I've already "chatted" online with someone and we got nowhere including resetting the router....

Any clue as to what's going on?  

dhl

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Re: Slower Speeds on Bigger FIles/Formats???
smith6612
Community Leader
Community Leader

You might be seeing the effects of congestion. Verizon doesn't throttle or cache content. See if you can grab some traceroutes to the servers hosting the files you're downloading.

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