As of Friday, June 5th Norton has been severely limiting my download speeds. I’m positive it is Norton because it is the exact same behavior that would occur when switching between “public” and “private” in the network tab in the Smart Firewall settings. Previously the “private” setting would allow me to download at my full bandwidth (or as much bandwidth as the website would allow), and the “public” setting would put a hard cap at a fraction of my bandwidth. Now despite having it at the “private” setting it acts as it previously did at the “public” setting. Norton should absolutely not be limiting my download speeds regardless of network settings, or just at all.
Absolutely nothing changed between Thursday, June 4th (when everything was still working as it should) and Friday, June 5th. I’ve also run speed tests several times and nothing is wrong there, it’s just downloading files. Doesn’t matter from where or what program or browser I’m using.