My latency in G-arena seems to be ok today It's 0-30ms to most hosts. I haven't tried BF3 as yet.

I don't think it is weird at all. You are downloading from file sharing sites like Mediafire and they often cap the connection speed. It is not Maxis that is throttling your speed down but Mediafire is not giving you that sort of bandwidth. You can never expect 1MB/s from file sharing sites.

If you download from nVidia, Microsoft, etc and it's giving you 200KB/s then there might be a problem.

Who is that everyone and what do you mean by "very fast speed"? Did you try downloading the same link/file? I get slow download speeds from file sharing sites as well but my torrent can hit 1MB/s.

Unfortunately you are getting the wrong information Imagine you're hosting files in a server with 100Mbps connection. If only 100 users are downloading from your server, I will get a very fast speed. However if there are 10,000 users simultaneously downloading from your server, do you think it will still be full speed? When this happens, you need to manage the connections and download. Therefore you need to throttle speeds (for example on some files which has more users downloading compared to files that has lesser users downloading).

Maybe you can try using a 3rd party router? I'm using Mikrotik since day one, no router issues but only Maxis connection issues, lol

You're right and I'm still trying to change the IP of Thomson so that I can connect to my router.

That is what you believe but unfortunately you are wrong again Even if you have a premium account for Rapidshare, Filesonic, etc, you cannot get full speed from Malaysian ISP. Have you tried using premium accounts? I am very doubtful when you say that no matter what connection you are using, you can get full speed from Mediashare. If so, please show me some proof of it via screenshots (dialup, Streamyx, Unifi or Maxis FTTH) showing your connection speed and max download speed. I have been using Internet since 1990's and seriously, you are the first person that claims all your connection are able to do full speed from file sharing sites, it's bizarre

You are also confused between the function of load balancer vs bandwidth. A load balancer is just a hardware that balances the connection for different servers and it DOES NOT increase your connection speed. If 100 Mbps is what you have then that's what you have.

That's alright, you have a very good connection there Majority of people with Maxis Home Fiber are unable to complete a download from RS including myself and this is a known issue due to the high latency. Besides, not all files will give you "full speed" and when you term it as "full speed", it means 1MB/s (at least) in this case. If it's 800 KB/s, how can that be "full speed"?

Btw, I used to have Filesonic Premium with Streamyx 4MB a year ago and I never get full speed 100% as well. Certain files I can get full speed but not all files. However if we are talking about MediaFire, it really does not make sense if people say they can get full speed all the time for all files (that's my whole point).

This post has been edited by clawhammer: Aug 25 2012, 11:50 AM

Show me you can get 1.25MB/s for this file I can't even hit 500KB/s here

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?i6ua00spypgepzk

Both of you are using a download manager to do the job. The reason why you are getting "full speed" is because the download manager optimizes the download for you by using multiple connections and downloading the files in parts (please read more about segmented downloading). Segmented downloads mean you can download the same file with many streams, resulting in higher download-speed. That explains why you claim it is getting "full speed".


Your observation and experience is correct. They are claiming "full speed" downloads because they are using download managers which somewhat optimizes the connection to get that sort of speed.

That's true but you are getting full speed because you are using a download manager which is literally optimizing your network connection. Therefore it is not fair to say that under all circumstances we can get full speed downloads from Mediafire because not everyone has a download manager and would pay for it. Besides, some file sharing sites will block segmented downloading unless you are a premium user.

That is why some people get confused as to why they are getting low download speeds while others are getting "full speed" They are misled by the fact that you guys are using a download manager.

Anyone having problems connecting to Maxis Home Fiber?

I am getting a red light for optical and after calling Maxis last night, they say it is an unexpected downtime because the main fibre cable in the area was broken. This morning at 9:30AM, the problem still persists. Anyone else in Klang Valley have information when would this be resolved?

Mine has been more than 12 hours now and still no ETA. This is crazy

My backup link is so damn slow, can't do anything with it also