Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

I think that 50,000,000 bits = roughly 6250KB or 6.2MB

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

6.2MB surely :D

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

This is going around in circles.

lets make it easy if my broadband is 50Mb what speed should i be looking for when downloading from usenet in Kb/s?

Also does it matter how many connection i have, my maximum is 20 but would it matter if i changed that to say 10 or lower?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

8bits = 1Byte
1024Bytes = 1KByte
1024KBytes = 1Megabyte.

B = Byte b = bit

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Yep, typo altered

---------- Post added at 20:59 ---------- Previous post was at 20:54 ----------

50Mb = 50,000Kb = 6,250KB = 6.25MB

As far as how many connections use as few as you can get away with to achieve the speed you want

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Also why cant i use SSL on Astraweb, everytime i click on that it wont let me, is virgin media blocking this and if so why?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

I can use SSL with Astra, on port 563. Are you using the correct server address (the secure ones are different to the unsecure)?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Ok i will try that, i just use what was sent to me from astraweb

Does SSL make much difference is there any benefits?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

All SSL does is http://webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html so it does have a benefit, it stops or attempts to stop your ISP seeing what is in the payload you are downloading and therefore they [ISP] dont know what you are downloading. This could be worth a read http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ion/td-p/13832

SSL does affect download speeds due to encryption\decryption but its really negligible.

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

I hardly saw my D/L speed affected when using SSL

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

could you tell me what the secure ones are please?

no worries Matt i have found it on astraweb site, whats best europe or us ?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Europe gives a lot less lag than the US servers, I can max out a 10Mb connection on 5 eu SSL connections

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

nice one im using 10 connections on a 50Mb line