Why is PIA throttling my download speed when I have a torrent client open?
Here is my internet speeds from speedtest while off the VPN, on it, and on it with uTorrent open. Why is this happening?
also 1 more thing to add, I still get 177Mb/s down speed while off my VPN with uTorrent open, but I forgot to include that in this image.
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What you've discovered shouldn't be so rudely dismissed, as lrryie has, yet once again, done.
I'd recommend trying your test again but this time use speedof.me since it's HTML5 based rather than flash. Let us know if that produces better results.
I have never been able to get accurate results out of speedof.me it's always low for me no matter what I do. My actual connection speed without VPN is around 220 Mbps the most I get out of speedof.me is around 80 Mbps.
That may have a lot to do with where you live and where their closest servers are to you. They don't have nearly as many servers and locations as speedtest.net If speedof.me doesn't even have a server in your country, for example, I could definitely see that happening.
At least you're making slightly less of a fool of yourself this time by moderating your position from saying that speedtest.net is "useless" to this:
Experience has taught me that calling you out for such blustering sometimes at least does get you to tone it down a bit. So at least we're now headed in the right direction. If we keep this up long enough it's conceivable that you'll even be able to eventually admit that you were wrong for saying that speedtest.net is useless.
So where is that published opinion of at least one independent third-party network engineer that you were going to produce to back up your opinions on this? All we've seen so far is walls and walls of your redundant bloviating.
You've been called out for yet another one of your many unsubstantiated allegations, and you have failed miserably to prove your allegation.
You've droned on and on in multiple posts about how speedtest.net is "useless" for testing a vpn. Until now you've gotten away with it. Those days are over. Bring it up again and I'll call you out for it, at least until you're able to prove it. The proof is not in your unsubstantiated personal opinions. Your personal opinions prove nothing, other than that you are an extremely opinionated person, and you think no one may dare ever challenge your opinions.
Oh, and thanks for the reply which yet once again proves my point: "All we've seen so far is walls and walls of your redundant bloviating."
As to your comment "it does not matter which sever/location one uses." that simply can not be true, it would be illogical for that statement to be true. Different servers will give you different outcomes so it does matter, even if the outcomes are incorrect. You might even get a perfectly accurate reading if you try enough servers for long enough, if you run the test often enough with enough of different servers you will eventually get the correct reading, it has to happen, eventually.
Please pay attention to details. You throw a fit if anyone disregards the exact wording you use for anything. So surely a "superior" being such as yourself would *ALWAYS* pay close attention to exactly what they say.
One of your favorite criticisms to level against others is "You have a reading comprehension problem and a fourth grade reading and language level." So what's your excuse for your own atrocious reading comprehension problems here? He said it twice, and in very simple terms. And you still want to argue about it? Why is it impossible for you to ever apologize for your mistakes?
You are clearly trying to start a fight. I will not be baited. You can go find the nearest robert_lazar clone to fight with. I want no part. Calling others liars is against the rules by the way. Notice I never called you a liar once since the rules were changed? Please stop calling people liars without actual proof.
The funniest thing about this, sock puppet boy, is that you actually believe that you are helping lrryie's credibility. Under the new forum rules it would be quite difficult for me articulate precisely why it's so funny. But it's not necessary anyway. Everyone gets it... but you. So go ahead and create some more sock puppets and cheer lrryie on. The poor boy needs as much encouragement as he can get.
No proof whatsoever? So those 500 unused handles are not proof? You were the one who said it.
Whatever you call yourself, you are always UFO Bob to me. (UBob for simplicity.)
You lost the debate because I have declared it so. If you deny it you are a liar. Confused? Exactly.
Now to get back to the original point, you have proven nothing. Produce a published opinion from an independent third-party network engineer that demonstrates that speedtest.net is "useless" for testing vpns. Then we can put this to bed. I'll be more than happy to offer an apology and admit I was wrong. Unless you do that I'll continue, as I have, and you can continue responding with walls and walls of bluster and bloviation.
Plainly said, no-one cares what robert_lazar thinks. He literally claims to worship you and me. I have asked him to stop on numerous occasions. You have not. That discredits you far more that anything short of...(Removed since that would surely violate the rules of the forum.)
Suffice it to say that if you continue cooperating with robert_lazar, then I and many others will have to think of you as the most well spoken of his clones. The choice is yours.
I've already acknowledged that you may be quite correct about pinging, and therefore latency testing. That's not the technical issue at dispute and you know it. Please stop playing these games.
This is my result from speedtest.net without VPN to Optimum Online server in New York.
Here is the result to the same server but with VPN on. PIA US East to Optimum Online server in New York.
What are your thought on this? If the speed with VPN on has nothing to do with the actual speed of my connection then why are these results so close? Thoughts?
Calling someone a liar is incredibly disrespectful. If you cannot prove they lied, then it is doubtlessly against the forum rules.
"We do expect that all users here will treat each other with respect. While we do understand that we have clientel from all over the world, it's important that we all work together to create a strong community."
So since the only two people who regularly accuse anyone of lying are Irryie and robert_lazar, they are the only two here violating the forum rules.
I and most others do not even object when you accuse us of lying. Instead we ask if you have any evidence to back it up. And each time we ask, we are ignored or given a circular reasoning excuse like "I already told you my evidence and because I already did, I never have to again and you are wrong".
Shall I explain circular reasoning again? Or can we start behaving in a proper and respectful fashion?
Frankly if you cannot interact with others without being disrespectful in such an extreme, perhaps you should consider your own advice and seek another place on the Internet to make your home.
I declare it thus, and therefore it is so. The proof for it is that I have declared it so and it is therefore irrefutable. If you disagree with me you are just harassing me and you're a confirmation bias liar.
Robert Lazar and his "army" of sock puppets use precisely the same magical thinking as lrryie. In fact their thinking is identical in so many respects. Hmmm.
I enjoyed some of the posts he has made, and I hated some of them. That is all. At this point I am starting to wonder if the reason Irryie is seemingly unable to tell you to stop "worshipping" him is that you two are one and the same.
And I am not the only one wondering who is who.
Nonetheless I am still waiting on not only the five documents you requested to supposedly prove that PIA had done something I will not mention, and also the proof that supposedly exists in this very thread that was supposedly posted by Irryie.
Get to work or stay out of this.
Okay, thanks lrryie for helping everyone get the connection. It's certainly an important connection, one that you yourself fail or refuse to see, but one that I have seen the self-contradiction of from the beginning.
Thanks also for confirming again that you're a thimblerigger and a snake oil peddler. I'll have to admit though that you're one of the most convincing, albeit obnoxious, snake oil peddlers I've ever witnessed. The way you string percentages together (bogus as they are), along with your "It's a fact" bold as brass assertions, is truly impressive. You in no way lack for audaciousness. I have to wonder if you're this audacious in real life. You must be a sight to see at a party, providing hours of amusement to all onlookers.
Let me point out the obvious self-contradiction in your argument about the necessity of factoring latency -- your laborious lrryiestopwatchspeedtest doesn't include any factoring for latency. You don't measure latency yourself, and the reality is you can't do so with your primitive and tedious stopwatch method. Thus your entire position fails.
Filling multiple threads with walls and walls of impressive sounding "The fact is" and specious percentages can easily convince a sycophant like Robert Lazar. Have you convinced yourself, as well? There are snake oil peddlers who have spent so many years deluding others with fantastical story telling that it becomes a pathology and, as a result, they actually start believing their self-fabricated magical tales. It would seem that's what's happened here too.
You have still not proven one single solitary thing. Saying you have over and over will not make it so. You can post a link to actual proof. But using partial metaphors that do not cover all the subject will always be rejected.
And your repeated filabuster technique will also fail. I do not care how many words you use. Using more words to explain a simple concept only proves you lack an adequate understanding of the English language to say it in a way that makes sense.
Speaking to you seems to be more of a waste of time than speaking with your other personalities like UBob.
So to heck with this "discussion".
Here I will start anew and not address the clones at all.
The only reliable speed test I have ever found is a properly configured torrent client using a single, well seeded torrent like a Linux ISO image. Period.
It works on every system regardless of the speed of the connection, and even if the VPN fails for some reason, Linux is free to share.
You do not have to be insulting. You choose to be. That is not right. You need help. Please seek professional help. Not for me. Do it for you. Do it for others around you.
And since I doubt you will do that, please take your own advice and leave my posts alone. Especially when they were never directed at you. You have no reason to pick a fight with me. Just move on and live a life without a fight here.
The logical fallacy you've employed here is called "burden of proof." It's one of the most obvious logical fallacies and, therefore, is seldom ever attempted because it's so obviously a logical fallacy. In other words only a fool would ever employ it because only an idiot would ever fall for it.
No, lrryie, the logical burden of proof is entirely on you since you are the one who made the accusation that online speed tests are "useless." You've flailed about in a dramatic display of desperation in an attempt to prove your argument but, so far, you've proved nothing other than to further substantiate your own ignorance. You only confirm the impotence and circular reasoning of your argument by now, in desperation, grasping at this last straw of a logical fallacy.
You're ship is hulled and going down fast. Time to man the life boats.
"This must end. He is accusing myself and another forum user of being lovers, being liars and a plethora of other such things. He does this purely to harass us, just as he accuses us of harassing him. This is not right and must stop."
Paraphrase it to fit your own opinions, and take a stand to get rid of the most annoying person ever to be on these forums. Thanks in advance.
So are you a psychologist too now? Should we refer to you as Doctor Irryie? If not, then you cannot say what Bi-Polar disorder even means in a general sense, much less in a particular case.
And just in case you missed this, you do not own your posts here. These forums belong to London Trust Media. Your posts are also part of the forum and are owned by LTM. You can rage about everyone who replies to you, but you are no more an owner of the content of the posts than anyone else here.
Are you aware that you are right now exhibiting signs of a very strong mania phase like someone with Bi-Polar disorder would have?
And again, despite this being the same post, since you rewrote it again, I will mention that you are not a Doctor, and you do not own any posts here, not even your own.
Really. Look at it. You sought me out. Not the reverse. And I have yet to accuse you of having a "erotic dream" nor have I accused you of being a lover of anyone. You are the villain here. Cease and desist. Or be prepared. PIA cannot stay out of your disregard for the rules and common social etiquette forever.