I have no technical knowledge of what goes on behind a site, but something seems odd to me about an occasional problem I'm having with Private.com.

I use Internet Download Manager, and that doesn't seem to be part of the problem. Most of the time I download a scene, I get reasonable download speeds of between 25 and 35 MB/s. I can see 90-105 on other sites, but I suspect that the Private server is on the other side of the Atlantic and that may cause slower speeds.

The problem is this though. I'll occasionally run across a file that downloads as slow as 250 KB/s and there doesn't seem to be a reason for it. I thought maybe I was being throttled, or maybe more people just came onto the site to download, but then through trying some different things, it appears that the problem is usually limited to one resolution only. For the newer movies, I've been downloading the 720p files just to save space. Going up to 1080p can be a large file size difference. But what I've found is that if I get slow speeds on the 720p file, I can usually download the larger 1080p file at the much faster speed. Also, with scenes that have this problem, streaming is almost impossible because of the constant buffering waiting for more data to load. That seems to happen with both resolutions, but I might be wrong on that.

Does anyone know why some files on the site only load slowly while others load faster? And idea why that can ever differ between different resolutions of the same scene.

I should add that I have found scenes that download slowly and I've gone back to them 12 hours later and they seem to be faster.

It seems so random for what are likely on the same server.

This isn't a problem that I'm looking to solve, but I'm curious as to why this might be. I can't recall in my long history of subscribing to sites that this has happened before.

Thanks.