A coworker was experiencing a strange problem with their Internet connection at home. Large downloads from most sites worked fine. The exception was that downloads from a Amazon S3 would get up to a good speed (500Mbps), stall completely for a few seconds, restart for a while, stall again, and eventually hang completely. The problem seemed to be specific to S3, downloads from generic AWS VMs were ok. What could be going on? It shouldn't be a problem with the ISP, or anything south of that: af...
