Author Topic: connected but REALLY slow :-(  (Read 2497 times)

Offline welshman

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connected but REALLY slow :-(
« on: July 14, 2012, 11:19:19 pm »
Hi RDL, I'm getting a connection via supernews but its unbeleivably slow :-(
any ideas please ?
Ive just upped to the latest, but still the same.
Thanks for any help you can give.

Offline Rdl

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Re: connected but REALLY slow :-(
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2012, 07:02:58 am »
Define slow? Your connection speed? Speed you're getting? Computer specs? With other programs?

Offline welshman

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Re: connected but REALLY slow :-(
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2012, 11:10:15 pm »
Hi running vista - 5 - 15 kb/s
bullguard as AV but Altbinz is allowed in firewall settings - and its still the same if off ! :-(

Offline paperc07

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Re: connected but REALLY slow :-(
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2012, 08:17:22 pm »
yeah same shit started happening to me all of a sudden I use astraweb, tried switching servers nothing seems to work... my speeds right now are a whopping 2kb/s there suppose to be 2080kb/s lol

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Re: connected but REALLY slow :-(
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2012, 08:45:02 pm »
It looks like something is scanning nntp traffic?

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Re: connected but REALLY slow :-(
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2012, 06:01:30 pm »
Any way around it? as its killing me !!

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Re: connected but REALLY slow :-(
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2012, 07:37:45 pm »
Please try uninstalling bullguard (yes uninstall, not disable) just to confirm it is the problem.