The server space is paid by donation.
Sometimes the shared virtual server is impacted by other traffic on the machine in some server farm in California.
Sometimes throughput is influenced by 'net topology', the route from one machine to the other. The last December time I ran series of download tests data rate was 5-7 MB/sec. One test was 11MB/sec average. I'm 20 hops away on the other side of the planet. Currently...it's not so hot
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And a month ago, just to access the Forum I was timing out and dropping 50-80% of the ping packets somewhere on the west coast. It varies, not just here, for a number of reasons between one end of the line or the other; misconfiguration; corroded connection; hacker doing penetration/attack; or the NSA.
Most people don't deal with 2GB files and overlook the garble that pops through the blips and blobs of video, e.g., that can gloss over bits of mangle . For example, a stalled webpage that should have taken 0.23 seconds; took 10 seconds, with one image failing to completely load image. I doesn't happen every time but multiple by thousands.
A bad MD5 could be something inoperable....or a flipped bit that might not cause a problem. It's just to exact. An accurate MD5 just reduces the guess work in troubleshooting why something might not work.
A download manager, like DownThemAll helps. And there are methods to have a torrent re-download whacky chunks rather than the whole thing...again.
I know it's frustrating at times. It would be nice to have mirrors. It would also be nice to move off a virtual server. Both of which might fix some problems, but they might not fix your problem...which might be in Omaha.
We all do what we can with what we have as this is a community effort. Like most efforts: all it takes is: Time, Money, and Monkeys.
While I wrote this I ran a traceroute. The connection slows across the Pacific and drops some ping packets I think in Los Angeles with a third party carrier..
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It's not really a benchtest for thoughput, but it can help find out why it's wonky.