Losing bandwidth with the time

Hi,
I’m not sure where to put this topic.
I got a new gaming laptop today and downloaded/installed all games (>200GB - not finished yet).
I wondered about a lowing bandwith with the time.
First I downloaded some steam games which was limited to 4MB/sec. (don’t know why).
After that I started downloading the uplay games with no limit and ~13MB/sec.
However the bandwidth lowers with the time.

As you can see in the hardware diagram the system is still the same busy with just 3MB/sec and 13MB/sec.


Why is that?

If I pause the download and restart it after a couple of seconds it has got the full bandwith again until it starts to lower it again (and I don’t know why :neutral_face:).

Edit: the problem does not occure with trafic between green and blue - I can sync a large amount of files with my server and ~ 40MB/sec (max. of my wifi) without any problems.

Thx

Are you using the proxy?
What does the hard drive usage say at this time?

Yes, but steam doesn’t support proxy and uplay wasn’t configured to use the proxy.
I don’t have a hdd. ipfire is configured to cache all traffic in RAM only.

Switch off the proxy and see if the effect still occurs.

Hm actually I can’t do that because I will need to change firewall rules to keep the internet working. I will put another ipfire box in the DMZ an test again.

Internet should work from home without a proxy. Sounds like you’ve bent more than you need to. I don’t know your exact constellation.
Therefore: Sorry, I can not help you.

I had the same problem. I have fixed it by reducing the MTU setting of the affected host to 1200 for a period. after a while it was set back to default, hence i infer ISP networking issues.

I actually don’t have that option to set in the modem.

i dont know if i should start a new topic but im having the same problem on core 141 with getting disconnected from steam and assault cube.
im with Shaw Business in Canada on a static ip +google DNS with management disabled on my modem
theirs also a ping being blocked by IPS between the static IP and the gateway.

My problem was not related to ipfire, because I got a new modem and the problem was gone.