& google drive) then surely this pointed to throttling? No Sir, this was down to my connection and usual internet traffic. The gist of the conversation was that they do not throttle connections and that 30Mbit/sec was considered an excellent speed and IF I was previously getting 50-200Mbit/sec then I was a very lucky man as this was not expected! I suggested that I must have been very lucky for 3 days having traffic rates almost flatline from them (but not other sites I tested, e.g. The conversation went on for 20 minutes with the agent speaking to me like I was dumb and would just take his word for things. So, I phoned the support line and spoke to a technical support agent to explain that it looks like they were throttling my connection. Then, after a few days, this dropped to 30-35MBit/sec with no peaks and troughs - I never got below 30Mbit/sec and never above 35MBit/sec for 24 hrs. I monitored traffic and I could see the usual network peaks and troughs that you would expect with a consumer ISP, but I was averaging 130Mbit/sec over 3 days. So, when the restore started and I was getting between 50-200Mbit/sec restore times, I was happy. ![]() ![]() Now, I'm not expecting instant restores and the data I backup I can live without for a week. Then, last week, the worst happened I had to do a restore of 6TB. ![]() Everything seemed OK for general day to day backups and restores. I've been with SOS Online Backup (consumer, not business tier) for 3 years.
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