Speeds Better?

[IzZzy]

FSK!! I knew i spoke to soon. Speeds back down to a 56k..... "These are the days of our lives" aint very happy lives. Sentech just gives us a taste of bandwidth then takes it away

 

[arf9999]

Check your packet loss, I can almost guarantee that you have 10% or more. That's what screws up the speed.

If you're downloading, get a multi thread download manager - Getright or similar, you'll be able to ramp up your speeds.

If I do a single thread download on http or ftp I get about 4-6KB/s. With multiple threads (the more the better) I can consistently get over 12KB/s and mostly around 14KB/s. These are my stats from BW meter over the last couple of days by hour. (Where there is no, or very low download, usually that means that I've been disconnected or the network is down):

Period Download Upload Sum
02.08.2004 07:00 - 02.08.2004 07:59 52667100 28091923 80759023
02.08.2004 08:00 - 02.08.2004 08:59 51268658 27116961 78385619
02.08.2004 09:00 - 02.08.2004 09:59 46066642 23847189 69913831
02.08.2004 10:00 - 02.08.2004 10:59 45831184 20821024 66652208
02.08.2004 11:00 - 02.08.2004 11:59 49079877 17146991 66226868
02.08.2004 12:00 - 02.08.2004 12:59 48974181 18507949 67482130
02.08.2004 13:00 - 02.08.2004 13:59 47601384 19157670 66759054
02.08.2004 14:00 - 02.08.2004 14:59 43955087 23420259 67375346
02.08.2004 15:00 - 02.08.2004 15:59 39809185 20615363 60424548
02.08.2004 16:00 - 02.08.2004 16:59 39454564 18780111 58234675
02.08.2004 17:00 - 02.08.2004 17:59 566345 473893 1040238
02.08.2004 18:00 - 02.08.2004 18:59 34783796 13077115 47860911
02.08.2004 19:00 - 02.08.2004 19:59 12527827 6596930 19124757
02.08.2004 20:00 - 02.08.2004 20:59 19534581 2646122 22180703
02.08.2004 21:00 - 02.08.2004 21:59 35214076 15910405 51124481
02.08.2004 22:00 - 02.08.2004 22:59 43269782 25114249 68384031
02.08.2004 23:00 - 02.08.2004 23:59 44161043 28633230 72794273
03.08.2004 00:00 - 03.08.2004 00:59 42955141 28970327 71925468
03.08.2004 01:00 - 03.08.2004 01:59 50794676 32564462 83359138
03.08.2004 02:00 - 03.08.2004 02:59 48682371 32185454 80867825
03.08.2004 03:00 - 03.08.2004 03:59 49845768 32288273 82134041
03.08.2004 04:00 - 03.08.2004 04:59 48998075 31624384 80622459
03.08.2004 05:00 - 03.08.2004 05:59 51461509 33409270 84870779
03.08.2004 06:00 - 03.08.2004 06:59 49084720 30446650 79531370
03.08.2004 07:00 - 03.08.2004 07:59 47584290 30629015 78213305
03.08.2004 08:00 - 03.08.2004 08:59 48035460 26281273 74316733
03.08.2004 09:00 - 03.08.2004 09:59 46225658 24354798 70580456
03.08.2004 10:00 - 03.08.2004 10:59 41191767 19521571 60713338
03.08.2004 11:00 - 03.08.2004 11:59 37232870 16905492 54138362
03.08.2004 12:00 - 03.08.2004 12:59 34532433 15623991 50156424
03.08.2004 13:00 - 03.08.2004 13:59 38225127 16634665 54859792
03.08.2004 14:00 - 03.08.2004 14:59 40715755 17015249 57731004
03.08.2004 15:00 - 03.08.2004 15:59 39225537 20665473 59891010
03.08.2004 16:00 - 03.08.2004 16:59 35128797 16179658 51308455
03.08.2004 17:00 - 03.08.2004 17:59 703304 124830 828134
03.08.2004 18:00 - 03.08.2004 18:59 351678 106411 458089
03.08.2004 19:00 - 03.08.2004 19:59 47717 39670 87387
03.08.2004 20:00 - 03.08.2004 20:59 870201 2440359 3310560
03.08.2004 21:00 - 03.08.2004 21:59 1596589 930644 2527233
03.08.2004 22:00 - 03.08.2004 22:59 27216705 8635774 35852479
03.08.2004 23:00 - 03.08.2004 23:59 49264769 28678513 77943282
04.08.2004 00:00 - 04.08.2004 00:59 51357018 33008020 84365038
04.08.2004 01:00 - 04.08.2004 01:59 52312635 34625496 86938131
04.08.2004 02:00 - 04.08.2004 02:59 41990924 28697360 70688284
04.08.2004 03:00 - 04.08.2004 03:59 53137457 34618926 87756383
04.08.2004 04:00 - 04.08.2004 04:59 53397533 34383584 87781117
04.08.2004 05:00 - 04.08.2004 05:59 52525809 34966462 87492271
04.08.2004 06:00 - 04.08.2004 06:59 52729516 33995596 86725112
04.08.2004 07:00 - 04.08.2004 07:59 49199061 33434277 82633338
04.08.2004 08:00 - 04.08.2004 08:59 49530756 34778975 84309731
04.08.2004 09:00 - 04.08.2004 09:59 50181371 32768445 82949816
04.08.2004 10:00 - 04.08.2004 10:59 46666062 28557731 75223793
04.08.2004 11:00 - 04.08.2004 11:59 42787710 24086912 66874622
04.08.2004 12:00 - 04.08.2004 12:59 47599439 25239153 72838592
04.08.2004 13:00 - 04.08.2004 13:59 46012756 22734608 68747364
04.08.2004 14:00 - 04.08.2004 14:59 31724888 14669727 46394615
04.08.2004 15:00 - 04.08.2004 15:59 36414569 25047890 61462459
04.08.2004 16:00 - 04.08.2004 16:59 44419076 28205506 72624582
04.08.2004 17:00 - 04.08.2004 17:59 47844818 31432380 79277198
04.08.2004 18:00 - 04.08.2004 18:59 37076379 30158269 67234648
04.08.2004 19:00 - 04.08.2004 19:59 43243884 31447235 74691119
04.08.2004 20:00 - 04.08.2004 20:59 39234711 29542712 68777423

As you can see, while the network is up, I can get around 44MB/hour download average..almost 13KB/s. Multiple threads overcome the TCP backing off problem.

-A

MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

 

[mrbob]

The problem is one can't use multithreading with bittorrent and Dc++ so my downloads are stuck at a ****ty sub 1K/s

 

[MrGray]

I've noticed something really weird with single-threaded downloads - they sometimes speed up when you start other unrelated single-threaded downloads or start browsing multiple websites while you're downloading. This seems illogical as you would think that that using extra bandwidth by browsing would cause the download to slow down.

Anybody else get this? Maybe one of the tcp/ip gurus here could come up with an explanation of why this would happen.

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men - Shakespeare

 

[Brolloks]

garp

I have the same thing happening. Overnet would be running at 1- 2Kb/s and then I start browsing and it picks up. You can add more files to download as well and then your total for all the downloads increase, but the moment you cancel the other downloads your total speed drops again. P2P must be multithreaded to work not so?

 

[Brolloks]

Just downloaded the Carte Blanche Clip http://www.mybroadband.co.za/media/cb.zip

File created: 05 August 2004, 07:59:34
File finished: 05 August 2004, 08:57:54

Yeah baby. That's more the speed I wanted.
MW128 package, Downloaded with GetRight with 4 threads

 

[arf9999]

This has to be related to Sentech's bandwidth (mis)management system.

I suggest that you e-mail the call centre and update your ticket with this info. The more users that give concrete examples of the suckiness of their network, the more likely they are to actually fix it by end August.



MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

 

[nonroker]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by mrbob</i>
<br />The problem is one can't use multithreading with bittorrent and Dc++ so my downloads are stuck at a ****ty sub 1K/s
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Erm, BT and DC++ DO use multithreading. Each source is a thread, and you get the file from multiple sources.