http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Getting the most out of my internet... en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:47:45 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23272 Wed, 07 May 2008 23:00:46 +0000 Tweedz 23272@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Gotcha thanx Lighthouse and thanx for the website deney, hmmm but I don't think I'll stop till I fig this out lol </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23207 Wed, 07 May 2008 16:51:07 +0000 Lighthouse 23207@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@Tweedz. I have a 20 Mb connection (unlimited, uncapped)<br /> The uncapped part (as far as I can see) depends on if they have spare bandwidth available </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23206 Wed, 07 May 2008 16:45:23 +0000 Deney 23206@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><a href='http://www.speedtest.net/'>http://www.speedtest.net/</a></p> <p>This is a cool website where you can test the speed of your interne.<br /> I'm not too sure what the figures represent though myself =s. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23174 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:36:39 +0000 Tweedz 23174@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Well im in canada and I have used giganews but switced back with these guys for many different reasons I won't go into detail, but our internet is as fast if not better, I mean about a year ago I almost switced over to a company called cogeco (cable/dsl) but they told me they had a cap on how much you can download a month, like 30 gigs or something, to me I've done that in 2 days anyways with bell you have unlimited downloading but when I asked why they stood by their cap system she told me they have the fastest internet in all of north america and they need to have a cap to keep it (if this is true who knows but thats what she told me) I wouldn't think me living here in Canada has anything to do with my internet "cap" since I've seen my freinds do 4 times what I've been able to do using the same internet provider to boot. So there isn't anything on my computer or under internet options that I can change my cap level? (I've looked under internet options and have seen nothin). I've seen that option using newsleecher and I've cranked that up but get the same results it sits at 526kbs :( </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23169 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:22:58 +0000 The Geek 23169@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yeah... you should use giganews instead. I think they have a free trial or something like that.</p> <p>There's also the fact that most of these servers are in the US, and since it looks like you are in either canada or UK, you'll not get quite as fast speeds. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23168 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:17:21 +0000 Tweedz 23168@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><a href='http://usenetserver.net/en/index.php'>http://usenetserver.net/en/index.php</a> if this is what you mean for what i use to DL my NZBs. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23165 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:10:34 +0000 The Geek 23165@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Downloading from which usenet server? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23164 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:07:57 +0000 Tweedz 23164@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Ahhh gotcha sounds resonable, well I mainly use NZB's for downloading as I find them to be very clean and very reliable as in consistency in downloading speed...what gets me is why everything else iv'e ever had to download do the exact same as in always getting to about 530kbs and stop(as in using torrents or simply downloading a driver from nvidia) I mean they all can't be the same...can they be?. Also my friends tell me that they have downloaded up to 2mbs and i've seen them do so, is there not something under internet options that can tell me all this, something must be set on my computer for it to tell it to stop at the same downloading speed everytime, no? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23160 Wed, 07 May 2008 12:56:11 +0000 The Geek 23160@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>One of the things you need to consider when downloading... there are a number of factors involved: the speed of your internet connection, the speed of the server on the other end, the speed of your computer, the speed of the network connection of the other server... and whether or not you are being throttled on either end.</p> <p>Typically most people that run a respectable server are going to throttle your connection a bit to prevent leechers from killing their servers, so you'll rarely get to download anything at the full speed of your connection. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/getting-the-most-out-of-my-internet#post-23157 Wed, 07 May 2008 12:48:59 +0000 Tweedz 23157@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I use Bell Sympatico as my internet provider, and I have their super high speed as they call it I believe. Now when I download I download relativly fast I would say but I swear I can download more at a time, like it always gets to 525-530kbs and stops...now is there a way I can set it so I can download more at a time I know my bandwith can handle it. </p>