Seems i am not the only one having problems with Astraweb. After raising several tickets with them and not finding an answer they decedied to point the finger at my ISP (VM) with their traffic management but am i right in saying Vm do not have tm on there 50mb bb?
Anyway i canceled wih Astraweb and went onto Supernews as mentioned above and downloading both the same files i get to max out my connection on Supernews but not Astraweb (surprise)
For anyone wanting to sign to Supernews i found an unlimited SSL for $9.99 (slightly cheaper than Astraweb)
http://www.supernews.com/superspecial.html
So far have not had any issues