January 10, 20215 yr Hi guys to start I'm a bit of a novice but holding my own with a server setup with Plex My problem is when downloading movies and TV shows my bandwidth seems to disappear and a speed test suying internet speed has dropped from +40mbps to 2 or 3mbps. Has anyone else had this issue or got any ideas as to why this has started to happen please?
January 10, 20215 yr What are you using to download? I assume some dockers on your unraid server? Also go to Tools->Diagnostics and download the logs into a .zip file and post it so the community can take a look at it. Make sure you check "Anonymize diagnostics" box before you download. This will help everyone find issues.
January 11, 20215 yr Author Hi Herbiewalker and thanks for responding. I use SABnzbd to download files. tower-diagnostics-20210111-0958.zip
January 12, 20215 yr Who is your internet provider? Are you using encrypted port? Which usenet provider are you using?
January 14, 20215 yr Author Who is your internet provider? = BT Are you using encrypted port? = No idea? Which usenet provider are you using? = NZB Hydra
March 10, 20215 yr I too have noticed a decrease in internet download speeds to my unraid server. I have the Speedtest plugin installed and have it set to run every morning at 3AM. It has been hitting around 100 Mbps consistently ever since I installed the plugin (which is the speed I have with my ISP) but over the past week or so I have noticed that the speeds have dropped drastically to below 10 Mbps every time (getting about 7 to 8 Mbps). I have tried a different network cable and even swapped cables with another computer that does hit 100 Mbps on speedtest.net. The results are the same I get less than 10 Mbps on the unraid server using the speedtest plugin and my other computers get 100 Mbps. All computers including the unraid server are plugged into the same switch. I ran iperf3 from unraid to one of my computers and was getting around 500 Mbps on average. I just recently updated to version 6.9 but looking through the speedtest logs the problem started a few days before I did the upgrade. The dashboard shows that I am connect at 1000 Mbps full duplex. My unraid server doesn't really download much from the internet as it is mainly used as a file/plex server but I am just curious as to why all the sudden the speeds dropped from 100 Mbps to below 10 Mbps and would like to figure out what changed and if I possibly have a hardware failure starting to emerge. Any help/advice on what to check next would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
March 10, 20215 yr Author I've still to resolve the issue and I'm now reasonably sure it is the result of an update. The problem is only when downloading data and that seems to be working ok even though a speed test shows just 2 to 4 mbps. Files are still downloading ok and they dont seem to be taking to much more time.
March 22, 20215 yr My daily Speedtest is still showing only 8 Mbps consistently but I did fire up a VM on Unraid and had Epic Games download and install a game. While it was downloading I went to the dashboard in the Unraid WebUI and the receive speeds on my NIC were hitting 100 Mbps. So not sure why Speedtest cannot show the correct download speed through Unraid. Will probably just disable the daily Speedtest as I am not noticing any other slow downs anywhere else.
March 22, 20215 yr Author It's one of those strange one for sure, no doubt someone will come up with an answer at some point.
November 17, 20214 yr Any updates here? Just had my gigabit speeds drop to 10MB/s or slower consistently. I've been in contact with my isp and Usenet provider, no issues found. I'm at a loss!
November 17, 20214 yr Community Expert 9 minutes ago, Nodnarb said: drop to 10MB/s Probably hardware such as cable. Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread
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