usenet and astraweb advice
 

Hi,

I currently have 50meg vm broadband with 2 pcs and 1 mac connected to it.

both pc's have sabnzb and the mac has unison installed.

Just signed up for astraweb unlimited deal, but it only seems to work on one pc at the minute and not on the other 2.

can anyone help me out, does astraweb only allow one pc at a time to connect?

can i do anything to sort this out?

thanks

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

You normally get a set number of connections. If one PC has used all of these, then you won't get any more for that account.

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

is there a way of changing this?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Look in the application you are using for and try and find if it has a setting for the maximum number of connections to use. Then set this to be a lower number than the limit. I've been to Astraweb and their package allows 20 connections per account.

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Yeah all pcs are set to 20 connections or should i lower it to say 7 connections each?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

set 2 @ 7 and 1 @ 6 (3x7=21;))
Normally what happens if you have one machine connected with 20 connections open and you open another client on another machine you get a "502 error" user amount reached.

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Thank you, i have mine set at 10 and the others at 5. Will the download speeds be affected?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

I run 10Mb at full speed using just 5 connections on astraweb's EU servers..

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

I get 20Mb from 4. From SuperNews ;)

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How do i find out what speed im getting on each pc. How do you work out the kb/s per second.

i.e
5000 is 5 meg
10000 is 10 meg
20000 is 20 meg
50000 is 50 meg

and so on, is this correct?

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Well there's a huge difference between KB/s and kb/s (by about 8 million) kilobyte against killibit...yawn.

No idea what a "meg" is.

The most accurate way is via your router's WAN port if you have DD WRT on it. Otherwise, add up all the KB/s / MB/s values and multiply by 8 to get your Mb/s value.

On a 50Mb (Megabit) pipe you should pull about 6.2MB/s (Megabytes). 8 bits to a byte.

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Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Thank you im downloading at around 5000 KB/s so thats the right speed for virgin media 50 Mb/s

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Nope as there's 8 bits in a byte ;)

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

Roughly i mean.

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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

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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