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.

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

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 ;)

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

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.

Re: usenet and astraweb advice
 

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.