Hi tiggersprings,

I'm no resident site expert, but the problem may be in some intermediate node on the path from the server to your connection. I'm halfway around the world and am having a 2 Mbit connection. Tried dl-ing one of Flink's grass products - the speed is 200KBps+ (which is more than fair accounting for the network protocol overheads - compared to the max of 256KBps which I should get). Also, the download link utlimately resolves to Amazon storage https://....amazonaws.com/products/...) - so either Amazon is doing some funky load balancing or there is something else causing the throttling (one of the nodes upstream is swamped, denial of service attacks, ...) ! By the time I typed this, my 20 MB download has finished.