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Subject: Extremely Slow Downloads

RodS opened this issue on Jun 10, 2013 · 210 posts


bwsupport posted Wed, 24 July 2013 at 11:57 AM Site Admin

adorety,

I don't have hard specifics.  The common theme throughout this thread is that these issues are pertaining to those users who have Comcast as their ISP.  There is plenty of evidence out there that supports that fact that Comcast has been throttling traffic for years. There's also evidence that supports Comcast throttling traffic that runs through Level 3 (which if you take a look at the trace routes screen shots posted in this thread you will see that connections run through Level 3 to get to Renderosity), such as this:

[ http://www.lonniewest.com/index.php/writing/technology/135-comcast2

](http://www.lonniewest.com/index.php/writing/technology/135-comcast2)