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So I had been using sabnzb for a couple years when a few months ago things changed. All of a sudden instead of downloading at my max speed like it always had (2.3MB) my sabnzb randomly decides to throttle me between 900 and 1000KB/s until I pause it and unpause it. The pausing and unpausing used to work about 80% of the time a month ago but now works about 25% of the time and it used to only throttle me every now and then but now it is pretty much every time i start it up. The strange thing is while my sabnzb is throttling my dl speed my entire connection suffers as if it is using my full bandwidth, if I pause sabnzb and then do a connection test I get my full speed on the connection test. I have tried changing the connections, the cache, the ports and a few other things to no avail.

I'm using:

windows 7 64bit
newshosting
time warner

It might your ISP throttling your connection as soon as it sees Newsgroup / NNTP traffic.

So check this, you could use another newsgroup download program. On Windows you could try Grabit or UNZbin. Use the same settings as in SABnzbd and the same .NZB, and see what behaviour / download speeds you get.

Oh, and it might be your wireless connection (and theoretically your wired connection with a bad modem/router). Test with a wired connection.

HTH