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kalispimenta

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Maximum download
« on: September 27, 2008, 01:54:35 am »
What downloads are you guys getting? And is there a way to get more speed? I currently get 2.6 MB/s

Offline Hellster

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2008, 02:18:47 am »
Your download speed should only be limited to your maximum line speed , you could try adding more news server connections to improve your speed if you have more available.

kalispimenta

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2008, 03:29:50 am »
Well i have 20 connection from astraweb... ???

Offline davidq666

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2008, 08:51:28 am »
well what's the speed of your line? what speed would you expect getting?

kalispimenta

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 08:03:45 pm »
Well my connection is 22 Mbps downstream and 4.2 Mbps upstream...What should i aspect?
David

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 08:11:00 pm »
you have a line speed of 22 Mbps (mega bits per second) that is 22/8= 2.75 MB/s (mega bytes per second) so your speed is absolutly fine

hfxrock

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2008, 02:40:52 am »
Line speed of 15mbit and I am only getting 960k/sec I should be getting 1.8mb/sec and I can't figure out why I am not.  I use 20 concurrent connections on Astraweb.

Offline windoze9x

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2008, 06:55:19 am »
One possibility could be you aren't receiving your advertised speeds in general.  That is what's happening to me with RCN :(.  I do occasionally get my 10mbps but usually i hover around 400-600kBps.  I think I just have too many users on my node.

edit:  Talking to last post, not original poster.  The original poster's speeds are perfectly acceptable for his connection.

Offline mysteryman

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2008, 06:52:53 am »
Line speed of 15mbit and I am only getting 960k/sec I should be getting 1.8mb/sec and I can't figure out why I am not.  I use 20 concurrent connections on Astraweb.

Another thing to note... just as more connections can help, less is sometimes the answer. MOST the time more connections can give you more speed, but your hard drive has to work a lot harder hopping back and forth. Its best to set your connections to a reasonable level that saturates your line (can't wear out), but not rape your hard drive as badly (does wear out).

This is of course less relevant (not impossible) if you have raid, and even less if you use 'article caching' available to contributors. However if your memory is low, with or without caching... you will swap a LOT on/off of your hard drive, creating a bottleneck across your entire system.

Summing it up, hard drives suck... where can we get those uber holographic drives people said were coming out any day now... what was that... 10 years ago? Seriously though, people here have claimed very high throughput on their lines using altbinz... if you have speed issues, its very likely you, your pc, your internet provider, your usenet server... or the universe just decided to take a crap on you... and everything will be fine in the morning.

kalispimenta

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Re: Maximum download
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2008, 05:01:29 pm »
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