usenet and astraweb advice

[louisg]

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

[Charlie_Bubble]

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.

[louisg]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

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.

is there a way of changing this?

[Charlie_Bubble]

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.

[louisg]

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

[alferret]

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.

[louisg]

Originally Posted by alferret

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.

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

[Kymmy]

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

[darren.b]

I get 20Mb from 4. From SuperNews

[louisg]

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?

[darren.b]

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.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by louisg

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?

http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/

[louisg]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/

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

[Kymmy]

Nope as there's 8 bits in a byte

[louisg]

Roughly i mean.