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- March 18th, 2014, 5:53 pm
- Forum: General Help
- Topic: Extremely Slow Downloads
- Replies: 5
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Re: Extremely Slow Downloads
Indeed, Afrihost runs on MTN's network. What would the motivation be for blocking NNTP traffic? I started off using the info that XS Usenet gave me. That gave my friend around 50% of the speed he's getting now. Then, he added news.mweb.co.za and doubled his speed. I added news.afrihost.co.za and my ...
- March 18th, 2014, 5:31 pm
- Forum: General Help
- Topic: Extremely Slow Downloads
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4933
Re: Extremely Slow Downloads
As it happens, I have two uncapped ADSL accounts - one with MWEB and the other with Afrihost. The one I was having problems with is the Afrihost account. My friend is with MWEB. I just switched to my MWEB account and now I'm getting the same speeds he is, close to what the maximum is for my account ...
- March 18th, 2014, 4:01 pm
- Forum: General Help
- Topic: Extremely Slow Downloads
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4933
Extremely Slow Downloads
I recently downloaded SABnzbd and I've been getting constant download speeds of between 0 and 1KB/s (so practically nothing is downloading at all). I have tried other programs, like newsbin and SuperNZB and they are all doing the same thing. A friend of mine has the same account from XS Usenet and i...