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)) only to last about 5 minutes where it dropped to 2kb/s and eventually 0.5.....
back to square one
My guest account is working fine. Just tested the VPN: still buggered, but I am not worried until month-end. How does your normal IS account they provided you with perform on international (assuming you still have some international left)? I used to have a similar problem to yours when I first got the VPN account, where even the local IS started fast but got really slow after a short while. I had to change modems to fix it. What modem do you have and how much noise to you have on the line?
Also, do you mean 39 k[Bytes]ps or 39 k[bits]ps on 384 line? The difference is that 1 byte = 8 bits and in the abbreviation bytes is capitalised B, while bits is lower case b. So 39 kBps is pretty acceptable on a 384 kbps account. Do you get the reduced speeds in normal browsing, or when downloading torrents? You can test the speeds at www.speedtest.net or on the OpenWeb website. If you already know all of the above, forget I said anything.
... considering on a 384 line with Telkom on that many seeds 40kBp/s is easily obtainable.Just look at how many peers are also connected (connected to you, not simply available. Go to mininova and download Vuse for free. Great program that let's you download single files within a torrent and shows you all the information you need) and at what speed you are uploading. All of these things can slow a torrent way down, even with 500+ seeds available (but also not necessarily connected). Anyway, I have left OpenWeb for good. Sad really, they could have been great.
