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DigiChilli Network Status December
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amarjits
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much much better than before. 
Gekco
Expert Member
Hehehe!With Getright I can get 4 times that speed. Pity not many DL places allow DL managers.
I know I have asked this before but:
Any idea why a single threaded download will not max out a connection?
kimbo
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Morning. I get the same on rapidshare, between 5KB/s and 10KB/s
Gekco
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I'm looking for 256kbps. My own Telkom line speed is irrelevant.
I can get that if I go multi threaded but on a single threaded download I can't seem to manage that.
Well, either the server or a part of the link is slow (you can only download at the speed of the slowest part of it), or alternatively they are rate-limiting TCP connections. The fact that multi-threaded connections are faster supports this, as multiple connections would be open, and each individually limited to the same degree as a single connection. So 4 connections would be around 4x faster than a single connection.
You can do this either by dropping packets, which needs to be retransmitted, slowing the link, or you can have your router only pass packets for a certain connection at a certain maximum rate.
I see Second Life is also still completely dead. Today I can't log in, yesterday I could log in but not get my entire inventory.
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hmmmm. okay. ill follow the thread some more before deciding
Gekco
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Thanks.
Must be option B then because the downloads are from RapidShare and I normally get far higher speeds with my other ISP on a single thread.
sallyspencer
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There have been odd occurrences though where single thread downloads run at full line speed (384k) for a couple of minutes.
If it is being limited however, that's kinda a bummer, as it completely messes with streaming video and audio (or flash games). Not being able to utilize such things defeats the point of having internet for me. Would this also explain why the speeds on a single thread download keep peaking and then dropping constantly?
I'm rather hoping that this is just a network problem that needs to be fixed.
Anyway, update from my side:
Audio/Video/Single thread downloads running slow. Multi thread seems to max out fine.
Overseas online gaming is dead (US side, haven't tried anything EU side...will do so later today)
Steam still floating upside down in the water.
Local is all good I think.
Gekco
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I'm getting that as well.
Mmm ... just purchased a game on Steam. Seems it picked up a local server for the download (steam.isgaming.co.za), so it's downloading at just a tad over 300 kB/s.
BTW, this is one thing I like about DC. Local connections (which is often the most important to me) seems to run VERY fast. Now if they can only sort out the torrents and Second Life connections too, I'd be a happy chappie.
BTW, this is one thing I like about DC. Local connections (which is often the most important to me) seems to run VERY fast. Now if they can only sort out the torrents and Second Life connections too, I'd be a happy chappie.
How ;(
I loaded an old axxess prepaid account (with 50Mb left) so I could update my client and actually login, but now that I've switched back to the DigiChilli account I don't make it past the Login screen...
Oh you've managed to connect to Steam?I'm gonna try in a bit. Download some demos.
I log in 3 or 4 times, then it runs fine after that.
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My MSN is fine, but I am getting timeouts to and incomplete pages from US websites.
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