Question : strange connection speed problem

For about a week I've had problems watching episodes on comedy central .com. It give me an average connection speed of between 50-200 kbps. Basically that means I cannot watch anything at the moment on their site.

speed test .net rated my download speed @ 10+ mb/s.

I have no problems watching movies from amazon unbox or on hulu.

It appears from comments on comedy central that I'm the only on experiencing problems. I figured it was a server issue and would be fixed in a day, buy like mentioned it's been almost a week.

I'm running windows 7, dual core, 6GB memory, cable connection hard wired

Any suggestions to what the problem might be?

Thanks!
Dan

Answer : strange connection speed problem

The problem here is that you don't have any control over a remote routing glitch other than complaining to your ISP.  They may have a peering contract dispute with one of the needed partners and as a result are routing traffic through a less-than-ideal route to reach whereever comedycentral.com is hosting.

Traceroute doesn't always work as a diagnostic tool as sites will block the response to minimize load and chances for a DoS attack. Your best overservation is that you can stream from other sites (hulu.com, cbs.com, etc) and view full shows without stutter, but when accessing comedycentral.com it fails.  Now I'm not sure of the specific content your accessing so the only other thought would be if you have a conflict with the actual player.  Try updating your flash software (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/) to see if that might help.