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Found it... fucking hell. It was Killer Ethernet screwing me over, again. Last time it was a memory leak.
It turns out that this network driver has the "advanced" feature of "stream detection", so you can prioritize your traffic according to your needs. Turns out the thing was the culprit, disabling the feature solved the problem, so there you go.
Be careful with this shoddy driver.
Yep, I didn't mention it but I do use KIS. It does the firewall duties on my machine.
The thing is, when my notebook downloads at top speed without any kind of problems using the same public IP of my desktop, it rules out throttling issues. I'm trying to troubleshoot this at the Kaspersky forum, but if someone got any other ideas, please let me know 🙂
What the fuck. For some silly reason I didn't think of testing this issue with my Linux notebook. I just tested it and it's not only stable but also really fast (for my standards), doing about 3mb/s.
Kaspersky is my firewall...I can't think of anything else that may be causing this, aside from some obscure Windows stuff... I'll mess around and see what I can find.
Thank you for the help everyone.
The problem though is that the problem isn't restricted to the browser. It's the same on MegaSync, and the same even on JDownloader. Always the same pattern: a couple seconds on decent speed, then drops to an agonizingly slow speed, then rises to something between 100 and 500kbps for a couple of seconds and then drops again.
In the weeks before this, Kaspersky Internet Security was throwing some warnings about Mega.nz browser connections (not necessarily bad, but needed my permission). I recently disabled Kaspersky protection for testing download speeds but got no difference.
Perhaps I will route my connection through my cellphone (4G) to see if it's an ISP or IP thing. If someone got any other ideas please let me know 🙂
