As some of you may know, I have a very cheap internet connection, which is limited to a rather small 10GB per month. After you use up the 10GB, the connection slows down to about 150kbps.

This keeps causing problems. I can set off a file to download, and it will start at, say 15kB/s, but then after a few minutes it will slow down to less than 1kB/s and then stall indefinitely. On some servers it will time out instead. The same issue happens with some websites, where it will download part of the page, then stop. In fact, the post new topic page wouldn't fully load, so I had to switch to the mobile view.

Is this likely to be an issue with servers? Or is it more likely to be an issue with the ISP? I don't transfer a lot of data, and can put up with a slow connection for a few days of the month, but I would like it to at least be reliable.

Any suggestions are welcome.