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Suicidal Sledder
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I got a highspeed internet cable running into my laptop with a connection speed of 100.0 MBPS but im only getting a sustained download rate of like 14 KBPS. Which seems to me to horribly wrong... im using firefox, any ideas? anyone? anyone? Tranfer rate? Transfer rate is? Anyone? Anyone? Slow? Anyone?

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is it off all sites, or just one? do you have a bitTorrent client running in the background at an upspeed greater than your line can handle? Do you have lots of downloads running at once? Do you have any more info that will help us help you?

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idk... im using www.download.com and its always been decent in the past. i have no idea what a bitTorrent client is so im guessing im safe in that area, and its only 1 at a time. I know sometimes bigger files slow down the transfer rate but its only like 250 mb so its not THAT bad...... but yeah.... if u figure it out let me know.

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o yeah... i have AIM running and im IMing ppl but idk.. it should slow it down that much should it?

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Posted: 7th Apr 2007 20:11 Edited at: 7th Apr 2007 20:25
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Try Ctrl + Alt + Delete and go into processes, if something's taking up a lot of system usage and you're sure you don't need it (SURE, otherwise your computer might crash), it might speed things up a bit, it usually works for me.

Oh, and try using flashget/flashgot, it'll make your downloads a lot faster, if you're using that you can exit out of IE or whatever you're using and hopefully that'll help.
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Posted: 7th Apr 2007 20:14
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downloaded any spyware/malware thats now chewing up your connection?

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no the uasage is staying under 10 percent most of the time, and im pretty sure i dont have any spyware crap since i have uptodate Nortons... idk ill check...

also the download crashed cuz it hates me but now its staying at like 50 kbps... idk whats average? I always thought it was like 200 kbps but idk maybe im wrong?

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Quote: "connection speed of 100.0 MBPS"


you are of couse aware, that that does not mean that your PC will download data at 100 Mbp/s

this is simply the speed of your ethernet adaptor's connection with the modem. what is the speed of your modem's connection with the internet? like how much do you pay for eg. 2mb/s, 512kb/s

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Posted: 7th Apr 2007 21:00
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idk... we pay for 100 mbps connection speed. lol.. i know its not the same as transfer thats why i said

Quote: "its staying at like 50 kbps... idk whats average? I always thought it was like 200 kbps but idk maybe im wrong"


lol

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Chris Franklin_
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Posted: 7th Apr 2007 21:06 Edited at: 7th Apr 2007 21:07
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Quote: "idk... we pay for 100 mbps connection speed"


wtf that doesn't even exist

LAN (Network) is 100mbps but NOT your actual line for downloading.


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@Chris: Ever heard of OC192?

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lol idk... all i know is that with my 100mbps connection before i got like 200 kbps transfer rate... now its like crap...

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Quote: "@Chris: Ever heard of OC192?"

Nope.

Quote: "lol idk... all i know is that with my 100mbps connection before i got like 200 kbps transfer rate... now its like crap..."


2mb then.


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Steve J
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Its 9.4 gbps about. Higher than 100mb.

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Posted: 7th Apr 2007 22:02
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There is probably something wrong with your tcp settings, try messing around with it as certain configurations give you different speeds.

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Posted: 7th Apr 2007 22:23
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You have a 100Mb/s connection? Seems rather hard to believe. That's like 12.5MB/s!

My connection is set for 5Mb/s down and 512Kb/s up. But lately my upload speed as been mere 72Kb/s (9KB). Been fighting with the cable company for days now.


Steps:
1. Kick it
2. Reboot
3. Rub vaseline on the lines to make them faster
4. Run some malware scanners
5. Run netstat from the cmd prompt
6. Run a trace route somewhere and see if you got any bottelnecks

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Posted: 8th Apr 2007 00:12 Edited at: 8th Apr 2007 00:13
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He said he's on a laptop... Is it wireless? Something may be interfering with your signal. Try taking your laptop closer to your wireless router.

N/M I see you also said you have a cable running to your laptop >_<

That's what I get for posting after reading every single reply and not reviewing the question I guess.

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Lol... np... but while I was at a hotel once downloadings stuff(same file actually) I had a 36 mbps connection and had about 30ish kbps... now that im on a cable and like 10 feet from the router it makes sense that it should be like 4 times as fast not half as slow. lol... idk its not really a big deal, i was just wondering what was causing it for future reference.... maybe the server i was downloading from was just really busy? idk...

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Posted: 8th Apr 2007 01:40
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@Steve J

Please explain, I couldn't find anything on google about it
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errr I just put this in google "OC192" and found tons of results =/

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Posted: 8th Apr 2007 02:37
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I found something about a bunch of computer exploits when I typed it.
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Odd.

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Posted: 8th Apr 2007 02:41
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Ok, I tried it with quotes and it worked, it must be at least $100,000 a month, which, no one would pay for so I don't even see why they would think about having it for a subscription.
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if the laptop was a 56k modem based connection prior to engaging your wireless settings your tcp might not be optimized. www.speedguide.net tcp optimizer might alleviate that.
I would also be checking out the signal strength of your own wireless setting as well as those other people in your area blanketing your airports with higher bandwidths.
newer wireless routers can flood all spectrums when transferring files over the top of older ones and can hamper your speeds.

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Quote: "I got a highspeed internet cable running into my laptop with a connection speed of 100.0 MBPS but im only getting a sustained download rate of like 14 KBPS. Which seems to me to horribly wrong... im using firefox, any ideas? anyone? anyone? Tranfer rate? Transfer rate is? Anyone? Anyone? Slow? Anyone?"


Is this though your work? Or home based? I know of no provider giving 100MB internet to residential. If you could give more info on where this connection is coming from IE home, work etc. people might beable to help you more.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 19:03 Edited at: 9th Apr 2007 19:05
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Are you in the UK?

BT have now limited ALL previously unlimited consumer lines.

i expect the reason for this is so they can use the bandwidth for is TV on demand / home hub service.

This means your ISP will slow down you connection when you reach a certain limit. I was previously unlimited but now I'm limited to 30Gb per month between 4pm-12pm or net services slow down or stop working.

I'd check out your usage levels with your ISP

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 20:22
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thats shockingly poor customer service from BT, you pay for- they take it away!

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Ah BT Internet isn't so good, we often have connection problems, around 7-9pm the internet won't connect from about 10-30 minutes, almost everyday, it's annoying.

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Quote: "Ah BT Internet isn't so good, we often have connection problems, around 7-9pm the internet won't connect from about 10-30 minutes, almost everyday, it's annoying."


Same with mine, except it goes out about a week or so every month, I keep telling my parents to switch to something better but they just replace the equipment.
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Yeah, but I'm not just talking about BT as an ISP, I mean pretty much all UK ISPs have to buy Bandwidth in from BT Wholesale.

They say it's not a monopoly anymore, but i argue it still is, because when BT were released from their price controls they put up the wholsale price and sent all who hadn't taken advantage of LLU (loop unbundling/installing their own kit in BT exchanges)which left many independent ISPs cash poor and into crisis mode, so they had to slap usage limits on their customers.

All this was hidden under the guise of "were upgrading your ADSL from 2mbps to 8mbps Max for free" so very few customers complained because they thought they were getting more for free.

To explain it to people i use the analogy the "it's like swapping your fiat panda (which was free to fuel) for a ferrari (that you had to pay depending on the distance you drive)"

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even though I, and all my housemates work for BT (only a temp working on the database - i don't have a clue what my job actually does in the real world), we're with bulldog, which apart from some billing issues, have been fine for us.

of course, they've been taken over by pipex now.

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Looks like Virgin Media (who just bought up NTL/telewest) are after buying up Pipex/Bulldog too soon, if BT let them, i expect they might be woried how fast VM is growing

If the regulators have any sense they'll stop BT buying up the ISPs they just made suffer it's wholesale hike. Like how fair would that be?

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Um... im in my home, using a cable into my laptop and average about 50 kbps but the computer 10 feet away running through the same router/network/isp is getting just under 400 kbps which is more like what i was expecting...

I have all my tcp settings set to default or auto...

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Quote: "Um... im in my home, using a cable into my laptop and average about 50 kbps but the computer 10 feet away running through the same router/network/isp is getting just under 400 kbps which is more like what i was expecting..."


Check the settings on your laptop, make sure if you have a wireless card in your laptop to turn it off and use the lan as primary to do this go to control panel -> Network and internet options -> network connections. Right click on your wireless card and select disable.

That might help.

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i have read an article that says that future internet will use fibre optic cables that download enough to fill five 320GB hard drives in 1 second!!!!!!!!!!! (this is from the May PC Powerplay magazine, it also says that we will be using 22.2 suround sound (it makes a sphere-y thing) we will play games at 3840 x 2400 at the highest possible framerates on a hemispherical monitor 5 feet high and 5 feet wide weighing 67 kilos!!! (shame it costs $20,000), the future is looking GOOD!

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It could be the serverside, and not your connection thats slow..-

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Quote: "i have read an article that says that future internet will use fibre optic cables that download enough to fill five 320GB hard drives in 1 second!!!!!!!!!!! (this is from the May PC Powerplay magazine, it also says that we will be using 22.2 suround sound (it makes a sphere-y thing) we will play games at 3840 x 2400 at the highest possible framerates on a hemispherical monitor 5 feet high and 5 feet wide weighing 67 kilos!!! (shame it costs $20,000), the future is looking GOOD!
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BOOM HEADSHOT!

To bad I won't live that long to see that, unless technology does another 1970's jump....

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Quote: "enough to fill five 320GB hard drives "


Couldn't they just say 1.6 terabytes?

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yeah, but by adding the multiplication thing it sounds like more

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