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cfw0047
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Download speed is down to 20KB/sec

It started out at 900KB/sec (acceptable if not still pretty darn slow) and then rapidly descended all the way to a low of 20KB/sec.  It took me five minutes to download a 23MB song for a video projec...
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Stefen H.
Collaborator | Level 8
4 years ago

It's not just you. My download speed is also pretty terrible at the moment, but upload is just fine. My bandwidth preferences are set to don't limit upload or download. It can't be the client though since you're also experiencing slowness on web. How strange.

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