I’ve had this problem for a while now. My actual download speed keeps fluctuating from 5kbs...

I had CoD running in the background but not actually playing it. I tried closing it down and it's now downloading at around 100Mbps (it does fluctuate a bit though). Wouldn't have expected the download speeds to drop so much with a game open.

There are a lot of factors that go into download speeds. You will probably never see your full bandwidth being used when downloading games. The speed will fluctuate during the download depending what is going on on both ends. I have 200Mb/s download and
typically I get between 80 and 150 while downloading games. Speed tests that you run will find a server closest to your location which be misleading when you are actually downloading from a site.

Well the thing is I’ve actually never had it fluctuate so much before and I definitely feel like anything below 1mbps is just ridiculous even during peak times.

But the only thing I have changed is that I’ve switched from the pos gateway that suddenlink rented me to the mb8611 which as far as I know should actually be a significant improvement.

Hi KoKoola,

Sometimes internet speeds can be throttled if your modem or gateway has not been reset in a while. I know this is a "step one" process but some people miss it.

In my case I have downloaded a speedtest app on my phone to test my download and upload speeds daily. I would highly suggest downloading that app and seeing if your ISP is giving you the speeds you pay for.

Also try to minimize wireless connectivity from the modem to pc. Wired connections are the best solution for fluctuations is speed.

Hope this helps.

There are so many variables to download speeds you cant really say one thing will fix it. I know my speeds fluctuate alot