This morning (about 8am), I was updating my Linux packages from a server in Australia (http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/, sadly, there is no NZ mirror for Arch Linux), the download speed was a bit slow at 60~100KB/s. What's also strange was that I get frequent failed http requests to get the files. This doesn't happen at all when I was downloading using Auckland University's internet, and the download speed can reach 3~4MB/s.


I'm not saying I expect the same speed I got from the university, but I expect at least 400+KB/s during off-peak hours. If I do a speedtest to Sydney, I get about 6Mbps, which is about the maximum line speed I can get.


Downloading attachments from Google Mail is also slow. During peak hours I get 40KB/s, which I understand, is due to traffic shaping, but I still get the same  speed (40KB/s max) this morning at 8am.


Is the kind of speeds I get normal at all on the Big Time plan?