Not getting the downlaod speeds I want

[gibsinep]

Well first lets start with the comp.

Cable provided by time warner road runner
750mhz duron
640mb ram
ak75-ec mobo
2 hd
2 cd rom drives

On morpheus, kazaa, fileplanet, gigex downloads, I ralry get above 100kb/s

I usualy get about 70 ot 60. Why. I remember when i git it back in june i would hit 300 of fileplanet. 200 somthin of gig and well over 100 for morph.

what ht ehell heppened. I am sharing the connection with another comp. But have been right along. I did change hubs. But they are same exact thing.
what can i do? please help

[Infragrrl]

I'm not sure about fileplanet and gigex, but morpheus and Kazaa are directly related to the speed of who you're downloading from and how many other people are downloading from the user. Personally, I wouldn't worry....60 to 70Kb is pretty good. I sometimes get speeds of 5Kb......:P Others, up to 150 -200.

[Rocketmech]

Yep... 60-70 IS good. Besides these napster clones have become very popular( explosive) since the demise of Napster. Your sharing more and more of the bandwidth. Also, you may be sharing more bandwidth on your local cable network node. The more people who hookup in your nieghborhood and connect the less bandwidth you'll have. This is the downside of cable and why they cannot guarantee constant data rate like DSL. Also, you said your sharing a hub with another pc. If any of the 2 pc's are uploading then your d/l is compromised and will slow down. This usually causes much yelling around my household when 2 of the 3 pc's are tryin to d/l and the mp3 queen on the 3rd is letting some stranger suck our bandwidth uploading a mp3. :D If your worried about the cable speed , then you need to check at a low peak period. From your IP, download something and record the speed then check those other servers and see if it improves. You can try these sites for tweaks and testing info
http://www.dslreports.com/tools
http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_registry.shtml
http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/index.htm

Hope this helps ya...:p

[gibsinep]

thankx the other comp is basically dead except for about 15 minutes of use a day from my mo for her million e-mails. So it isnt that. I live in amsterdam were the cable server is andtheir is barly 20 thousand peopel here. And way less than a 4rth have cable. So it just must be those site s are crowded.

[hoodedrat]

GOOD GOD!!! 60-70kbps sheesh... i can only dream of 5kbps lol I HATE DIAL UP!!!! heh 60-70 is really good and you shouldn't worry about that... i wish i could get that high :D but i'm stuck with this dial up until i get outta this town in the middle of no where

[Aarmenaa]

I got DSL, and it uploads just like a 56k modem, but the download is okay. I was hoping to be able to share my files across the internet, but It take forever to upload a file.

5MB file- takes like 10 mins
10MB files- takes like 25 minutes
100MB file-I'll telll you in a couple of months

I commonly share files that are larger than 500MB, and I need this bandwidth-what's going on? Is Bellsouth screwing me over?

[gibsinep]

That is very slow for dsl i think. What kind of comp u got waht are the specs.

[kwebb]

Had to post after reading post after post of k"b" when your actually getting K"B" as in bytes. 1.5 mbps equates to real world about 150KB give or take. 70KB is roughly 7 or 800 kb.

[Aarmenaa]

I have a home-built system with these specs:

AMD Thunderbird 1 GHz
MSI K7T Pro2 (VIA KT133 Chipset)
Diamond/S3 Viper II Z200
Linksys LENPCI2 10 MBS LAN Card (Internet access through this card)
AC'97 Motherboard Integrated Sound
Maxtor 30 GB ATA 100
Maxtor ATA 100 controller

I share my connection out to five computers, and this is the only one that has trouble. The others access the internet through the network just fine, so it's not the network.

[jawaligt]

Maybe you should turn off your proxy (if you have one). I can imagine 20000 ppl using 4/5 different proxy's will overload them all. Also, you should install the registry tweaks..........


Jasper/

[Fishsauce]

I got DSL and it takes about the same 60-70kbs and on some lucky days I get around 80. I think I'm happy compared to dialup.

[mike_in_katy]

If I'm getting 49.2 with my 56K modem, then why the heck should I get DSL???

[kwebb]

These folks are talking about 60-70 KiloBYTE. When you connect at 49.2 that is kilobit. Your downloads are probaby in the area of 4 or 5 KiloBYTE. FishSauce probably means kilobyte. Oh jesus, nevermind.

[gibsinep]

lol

[jawaligt]

You're right kwebb, but you'll have to admit that the difference between Kb and kb is difficult for newbie users.

[mike_in_katy]

Hey, I fully understand the difference. I started programming on the IBM 704 vacuum tube computer in 1965. I was just being obstreperous.

The 704 had no disk drives and 8 large tape drives plus 1 card reader. Memory was a resounding 64K and was iron ferrite wound cores.

The Atari 400 would run rings around it!

[gibsinep]

I want it

[jawaligt]

yadda yadda yadda. The real point is that no 56k modem will download at 49.2 KBps.

[Ka0ticSH]

Thas true
most i've EVER gotten on a 56k was 7k. And i was PRAISING the lord. That didn't last long though, it went straight down to 3.5~3.8k :(.

[kwebb]

"I was just being obstreperous"

Look here, those kinda words create cranial havoc. Cut it out. I probably woulda picked up on the intent but I had seen post after post not discerning the difference and got trigger happy. Touche