The chosen few!

[kiepie]

Okay this NEWSSERVER from IS is really getting to me. Some people out here are complaining about the service and the rest is flying at 300kb/s.

What do I need to do, to be one of the chosen few?

 

[ziglet]

Sell your soul to telkom?

 

[m0zy]

Can it be that your line speed is not bigger than 512?

 

[TesterMan]

I am using grabit on a 1M connection and I am only getting spikes of 100kb, 3 spikes then 1 minute then 3 spikes, wierd.

 

[kiepie]

I've been having a a very slow IS week! between 8 and 16 kbps on cached items.

Thats how I feel

Just pulled down supernatural*stoked* been waiting for it, at 430kb/s nice 14mins download Who said the server aint working!?!

45-50kB/s on non-cached content here.

If I only have an 512kb/s line, then my cached stuff should be downloading much higher.
Aswell as my uncached stuff.

 

[Osiris]

It's simple.

If someone has downloaded the file already it will be cached locally and you will get great speeds.

If it has not been download recently it is pulled from an international server and that connections speed is limited.

 

[kiepie]

It's simple.

If someone has downloaded the file already it will be cached locally and you will get great speeds.

If it has not been download recently it is pulled from an international server and that connections speed is limited.

So if everything is in 100% working order, what should I be getting with uncached stuff?

 

[kiepie]

It's simple.

If someone has downloaded the file already it will be cached locally and you will get great speeds.

If it has not been download recently it is pulled from an international server and that connections speed is limited.

Dude, no offense, but 8kb/s on a 512kb is not limited. And that is not as simple as you say it is.
On 512 you should get a max of 64kb/s.

 

[kiepie]

So if everything is in 100% working order, what should I be getting with uncached stuff?

You should be getting 50kb on cached stuff, if not even a little bit more, on uncached stuff I dont know??

 

[ziglet]

All the content i download is uncached, im pretty sure about it

 

[TesterMan]

Any idea why I am getting spikes and not a continuous flow?

 

[Osiris]

I have a 4 MB line. 85% of the time I get about 15 - 20 K/s. With popular stuff it shoots up to 300 - 350 K/s. Still I average 60 GIGs a month.

 

[Summoner]

ye, sometimes cached stuff will start at 300K/s and stay there for 15 minutes or so and then drop down to 15K/s

 

[Osiris]

Maybe because the file is only partly downloaded to the local server ...

 

[kiepie]

Wasn't there someone that wanted to start something, so 10 people can download the file in 10 parts. Then it takes 1 tenth of the time, the other 90% will fly at cached speeds.