bottleneck somewhere
might be your SSD shitting out
ik clearing the cache helps sometimes but ik for me its usually the former bottlenecking it
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source:iâve coped with a shitty HDD for years atp lmao
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Itâs impossible to really say without having direct access to the machine or having a lot more information. You could be getting throttled, you could have gotten routed through a provider having a bad week, it could be other traffic on your local network (maybe a roommate started watching a 4k video after the download started), could be some kind of non-network I/O bottleneck. Start by checking if roommates are having issues, or if theyâre watching videos or downloading anything. If no, try again in a few minutes to see if it persists. Check if you have issues on other sites, etc.
Also be careful with speed tests. Some service providers recognize when youâre doing one and take steps to ensure it comes back as high as possible which can make them more of a speed test for an ideal scenario rather than a typical one.
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knowing arete id put money on their machine being the bottleneck
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ok one last parting gift: my wplace gin ibushi in Pullman, Washington
see u losers
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Idk if the site is really fixable anymore without doing like Homestuck remastered or something, and essentially recreating the stuff in flash. Like I know there are fan sites that sort of handle it, but IIRC those implementations are also bandaids.
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hug
hope everythings going okay
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I took them at their word that it started off at a reasonable speed. Would be unusual for the download speed to suffer because of a slow disk. Like thereâs a chance the system is thrashing I guess, but that would make the entire machine feel unusable.
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Clear what cache exactly lmao
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disk cache filling up is entirely reasonable
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hell
or the disk filling up
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how do I check this 
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Wait Windows doesnât use RAM for this like Linux does. Yeah okay it could be the disk cache then. Flushing it wouldnât do anything then though because youâd like just be flushing data you were trying to download most likely. Youâd just have to wait it out at that point.
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This wouldnât slow it down though itâd just halt it.
Edit: unless itâs a platter drive then I guess low capacity could cause slow downs, but itâs been so long since Iâve had to deal with them I honestly canât remember lol
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nah u could be eating into the space your os normally reserves for scratch work
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and yes this is true if it is that
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not easily but as a general barometer how much did this computer cost, sum total?
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not a huge amount but more than the absolute potato I had before
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under $1k more than $500
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iirc steam has a cache
it does sometimes cause slowdowns in downloading if itâs too filled
ik itâs happened to me at least
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