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So I have observed recently that even when speeds for a single-connection download get really slow at peak times (so online speed tests give very low readings), I can use something like DownThemAll, the Firefox plugin which allows you to split your download into up to 10 pieces and download them simultaneously, and get the speeds I would expect, even with contention.
For instance: if I run a DSL Zone speedtest now it shows me as downloading at around 1Megabit/s but if I start DownThemAll, with 10 chunks per download on a download of Ubuntu Linux I get closer to 7Megabits/s, and this only falls to around 4-5Megabits/s at peak times.
So, it would seem to me that Orange are somehow throttling each HTTP connection to a lower speed depending on the time of day, and if you open up several connections at once to a server the speeds return.
Could people who know what the above is saying check it out and see if they get the same results?
Of course this doesn't explain the horrendous packet loss and bad ping times that make online gaming, and at times even just finding a server using DNS impossible. I've lost count of the times the Orange network tells me that it can't find the domain google.com.
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