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So I'm new to all this, been downloading a bunch of stuff over the last couple weeks (~600GB) I have 100/10 on Time Warner, and I average about 13.1 MB/s, that was until a couple days ago. I'm using SAB with SSL

What's happening now is most downloads will start in the 5-9 MB/s and some will get up to 10-13 MB/s but within a couple min, it always falls back to around 300-500 kb/s

When I first started, pretty much all my downloads were 13.1 MB/s consistently. Now it's all over the place, but here's the weird thing...

If I pause SAB and wait about 10 seconds, then un-pause it. The speeds will go back up to normal, but a couple min later they go back down to the same 300-500 kb/s.

Is Time Warner throttling me? Or is something going on with SAB, or the nzb provider? Not really sure where to go from here. If it is TW, will they reset the throttling next month, or am i pretty much f#$%ed now that I'm on their radar?

Out of curiosity: if you restart SABnzbd itself, do you get full speed back? Or do you really have to turn downloading off for a few minutes?

Actually, now that I've reset my modem and router, I can't download anything higher than 500 kbps, even NZBs I downloaded at full speed earlier today.

I've tried restarting SAB, but no luck.

I'm starting to lean more toward ISP throttling now since I also just tested Netflix and PLEX to see what my download rates are. With Netflix, the stream starts around 5-7 MB/s since i have it set for best quality and I'm monitoring it through Activity Monitor, but quickly falls down to 300-400 kb/s, not sure if that's normal though.

With PLEX, I am connecting to a shared library not on my network. If I stream a 1080P movie in full quality, it doesn't top 1.5 MB/s Again, not sure if that's normal though, but seems low for having to stream a 10+ gig movie

This is just 1 possible thing that I also notice with my setup: did you maybe increase the logging from just Errors/Warnings to +Info (or +Debug)?
In the case of lots of missing articles from 1 server (while it is availble on another server), SAB get's so busy writing to the log that my speed also drops to 500KB/s.

safihre wrote:, SAB get's so busy writing to the log that my speed also drops to 500KB/s.

On what kind of system do you run SABnzbd?
I always use Debug mode but have never seen such a delay.
Lots of missing articles (especially when having many server of which only the lowest prio one has the articles)
will slow down the download. But that's due to waiting for answers.

3 servers, all equal priority and 10 connections each on a i5-4200 with 12GB memory and SSD.
I run it from the PowerShell console, so maybe outputting it there is what slowed it down. But I tried the same NZB again (seems to only be available on 1 server) and could reproduce it.
Speed of 500kb/s with Debug and 8MB/s without.

Have you tried the binary, launched directly without Powershell?