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« on: March 16, 2011, 01:14:10 pm »
Packet losses are probably to blame here.
I moved recently, and at my previous apartment, I had access to a high speed internet connection (optic fibre to LAN) at 100/10 Mbit/s.
Failblocks happened much more rarely then. Now that I'm at my new apartment, with a shitty 24/2 Mbit ADSL connection, failblocks are a common annoyance :p
The thing with ADSL is that it's easily disturbed and unstable compared to real broadband. It's especially sensitive to uploads (hence the A as in asynchronous). If a p2p program starts an upload suddenly, the download speed and ping are greatly affected in a negative manner.