Slow Download Speeds

[yogi1987]

Hi all,

I have been using sab/usenet-news.net for a couple of years now, Im not to advanced with it, but understand all the basics and have never had too many problems with it until now!

I have just moved to a new flat, about 20 miles from my last. i have an internet connection set up and its all good. apart from i can only get maximum speeds of download of 6-8 kbps. Its driving me mad trying to find a resolution!! If i d/l from say, itunes store or anything else its as fast as i would expect, speedtest.net is reporting 6.2Mbps.

I normally buy block accounts from usenet-news.net, but have even bought one from astraweb too, only to see if it made a difference, but its just the same.

can anyone out there help?

Thanks!

[sander]

What is the download speed if you download one of these: http://binsearch.info/?q=bigrandomfile& ... 00&server=

[a436813]

Hi

I have the same problem, I've been using sabnzbd for quite a while now but since about one week it's just using about 20% of the available bandwith of my speed (2.8 Mb/sec instead 11 Mb/s). It used to download with 11 Mb/s before. I installed the latest version already.

I started to download one of the above linked files, same result.

Does anybody have an idea what this can be?

Many thanks
Chris

[yogi1987]

Hi there, apologies for the late reply.

i have the file, and the stats given were:

28 mins, at an ave of 20 kbps, with 458 missing articals.

dose this tell anything?

thanks again for the help!

[sander]

28 mins, at an ave of 20 kbps, with 458 missing articals.

dose this tell anything?

You get that with the "bigrandomfile"?! That is bad. As speedtest.net is reporting 6.2Mbps, I can only think of a very, very bad newsserver. But at the same that is not very likely.

You could - as a reference - download and install NZBget and download the same NZB (with the samer server settings) with that.

[yogi1987]

Yeah! its super frustrating!,

Trying NZBget as i type, its not looking good tho, tried bigrandomfile and another, but i kept giving me the error code 10060, through the messages window, and saying cancelling hanging downloads?

dose this help anything, im sure there can be a solution to this! Dose the server im using from usenet-news make a difference?

chhers

[sander]

If you only changed location, and not the news provider, that shouldn't matter.

Wait: "error code 10060"?! You didn't say that. That's bad. Could be a firewall, bad (wifi) connection, bad / overloaded router, too many connections, etc

[yogi1987]

oh no!

Im thinking it could be router, its the only vairable thats changed. its an ee brightbox, but im connected through Ethernet cable? when you say too many connections, is there a way i can check this?

[sander]

Yes: the number of connections in SABnzbd to the newsserver. Lower that to 1 and try again.

[yogi1987]

I assume any changes would be seen immediately?

i still think its odd that i can stream media perfectly? i have turned off any firewalls im aware of. what else do you recommend that could help?

cheers

[sander]

I assume any changes would be seen immediately?

Indeed.

[yogi1987]

Finaly i have a bit of speed,

I lowed all my connections, running on around 7, quit any firewalls, and changed a server from Use-net news, and now im averaging around, 750kbps, its not brilliant, but its usable!

thanks anyways for any advice!

cheers


c

[sander]

750kbps, or 750kBps (750kB/s) ... ?

See the FAQ http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/faq#toc30