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Originally Posted by Florence
I am trying to download new drivers for my soundcard hoping it will resolve a problem. I am on 2mb and this screenshot shows me downloading at a a fantastic speed of 5.2KB/s
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i thought i'd see if i could also get your problem here in wythenshawe.
the simple short answer is your getting the WDM_A388.exe file from a crumby FTP server.
given the info you supplyed this is my findings at 10pm
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&Software=True shows 3 ftp sites to get that file from
ftp://152.104.238.194/pc/ac97/alc650/WDM_A388.exe starts at 133 drops to 78KB
ftp://202.65.194.18/pc/ac97/alc650/WDM_A388.exe starts at 86 drops to 26KB
ftp://61.56.86.122/pc/ac97/alc650/WDM_A388.exe starts at 85 drops to 17KB
i did a search from the NTL front page and came back with this
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.sr...&size=18160746
taking this
http://www.onlylsoft.com/WDM_A388.exe as the first option i got started at 240KB droped to 159KB
so simply the ftp servers pointing from
http://www.realtek.com.tw are cr@ppy were as, a reasonable
mirror is far faster, im not trying to defend NTL but in this case and perhaps several others are wrong to expect NTL to take the blame for slow downloading, it looks like the linked to ftp servers are on residential upstream.