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Huge decrease in D/L time?
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Name: sander
Date: January 23, 2003 at 14:09:40 Pacific
Subject: Huge decrease in D/L time?
OS: win98se
CPU/Ram: 1gHz P3 512 sdram
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Comment: Hi there Lately I have noticed a huge decrease in D/loadtime, im non newbe, I've checked all possible 3th party wares, system is virus free (according to Norton AV 2003 Pro)and im not running any appz in the background, I seem to be raiting high at bandwidthtests...
Does anyone have an idea? Regards
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Response Number 1
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Name: Ray
Date: January 23, 2003 at 15:13:51 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I assume you mean increase in d/l time rather than decrease.. Otherwise, why would you complain if D/L happened faster (decreased)... Have you scanned your system for spyware? Good possibility. For my money (like in FREE!), Spybot is the best. Find it with a Google search and be sure to update it before you run a scan.
Ray
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Response Number 2
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Name: Bryco
Date: January 24, 2003 at 04:18:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Increase in d/l time = decrease in d/l speed.
I get what you mean anyway. I regularly download from a particular site. I can tell when the site is busy because the d/l rate gets between 12-20 kbps. When it is not busy then I can get between 80-100 kbps d/l rates. This particular site is often busy. There are many variables that govern the d/l rate you get at any particular time. When I am concerned then I go to Numion Site to get the state of the internet. The site will graph your last 25 visits. It provides an average surfing speed. I just now used it and got 83,049 bps with throughput of 664kbps which is a good reading. The average of my last 25 tests is 462kbps. (I am on cable)
If I use DSL reports site then I get 1.6mbps and a storage reading of 198kbps. This is showing the best single packet rate. HTH
Bryan
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Response Number 3
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Name: sander
Date: January 24, 2003 at 13:54:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Yeah yeah, I did mean D/L speed, silly me... Ray, with 3th party software I mean spyware duh, but thanks.
Bryan, thanks for the info, was usefull. greetZ
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