My billing cycle ends in 3 days but I still have 83% remaining in my service plan. Use it or...

loose it?

Also:

I've tried the speed tests using the site: testmy.net using the 12M download and I get anywhere from 40M to 50M which should be very good. Yet it seems to take a while for a site to come up compared to when I was on dsl with Century Link. Is this just the nature of the beast (latency issue)?

My LAN has 3 Linux boxes running Ubuntu 16.04 and a Windows 7 box going to a 24 port switch. I tried the download test with the main workstation plugged directly into the modem and then threw the switch as normal. That doesn't seem to make a difference in the test. I mostly use youtube-dl to download youtube videos and it seems real slow too. I think it may be because I need to download bigger chunks at a time using the download options:

-r, --limit-rate RATE            Maximum download rate in bytes per second
                                 (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
-R, --retries RETRIES            Number of retries (default is 10), or
                                 "infinite".
--fragment-retries RETRIES       Number of retries for a fragment (default
                                 is 10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and
                                 ISM)
--skip-unavailable-fragments     Skip unavailable fragments (DASH, hlsnative
                                 and ISM)
--abort-on-unavailable-fragment  Abort downloading when some fragment is not
                                 available
--keep-fragments                 Keep downloaded fragments on disk after
                                 downloading is finished; fragments are
                                 erased by default
--buffer-size SIZE               Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
                                 (default is 1024)
--no-resize-buffer               Do not automatically adjust the buffer
                                 size. By default, the buffer size is
                                 automatically resized from an initial value
                                 of SIZE.
--playlist-reverse               Download playlist videos in reverse order
--playlist-random                Download playlist videos in random order
--xattr-set-filesize             Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
                                 expected file size (experimental)
--hls-prefer-native              Use the native HLS downloader instead of
                                 ffmpeg
--hls-prefer-ffmpeg              Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS
                                 downloader
--hls-use-mpegts                 Use the mpegts container for HLS videos,
                                 allowing to play the video while
                                 downloading (some players may not be able
                                 to play it)
--external-downloader COMMAND    Use the specified external downloader.
                                 Currently supports
                                 aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget
--external-downloader-args ARGS  Give these arguments to the external
                                 downloader

I'll experiment with it and let you know what I find out...