MS.com is a brilliant site to download from, they have loads of spare bandwidth.
After trawling the internet for fixes/tips/hints and doing various speed tests and never seeing a speed over 245k/sec, i called ntl. Mentioned I was suffering from slow speeds - after going through several pointless tests (clearing temp internet files/cookies on IE, even after saying i never touch it, FF all the way) I explained the tests that i'd been doing (downloading from many places at once). Support guy said that when your on 2meg your not going to be able to go over those kind of speeds.
2meg i said? I think we could have found the problem, popped through to customer services, confirmed i was on 2meg changed to 10. Now downloading from MS at 1000k+/sec.
Bloody marvelous!
Cheers to all for the repsonses and advice, I'm now going to start downloading teh interweb.
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Originally Posted by Druchii
You could try using a dwnload manager to open more threads to servers to see if you can push past 245KB/s. If using Firefox i'd recommend Flashget extension. Personally however i just use Orbit Download Manager. Speedtests and one thread tell me i'm on about 4 - 6Mb, but my download manager pulls 10Mb night and day.
Hope this may help slightly, and good luck with getting it sorted.
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I was using Internet Download Manager to download 3 files at once, all files split into 2 parts, again downloading at once.
Am doing the same now and can hardly contain my grin
