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Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

Neiliboy (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 17th February 2007, 15:28

I`ve got a 4 MB line - when i`m downloading music/movies using utorrent i pretty much have to scrap surfing the net as its soo slow and frustrating.

Can anyone recommend a way to stop this?

Many thanks

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Companies that have p**sed me off so much that I will never use them again and I hope you dont either....
Jacks Fish & Chips of Cambridge ridiculously overpriced and overpackaged chips. £1.20 for a stupidly small portion of chips - they need to go up north for a good lesson in fish and chips
Alloy Bodies of Manchester - The Grand Daddy & Benchmark for shockingly poor customer service.
Capital Bank Leasing who are part of [B]BOS
& are f**ing useless & struggle to action the smallest request but are fantastically efficient at taking money out of my account
[B]Abbey National
Absolutely diabolical service - how hard is it to change £60 of coins into notes????
....more coming soon no doubt.....

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

xfg (Elite Donator) posted this on Saturday, 17th February 2007, 15:45

Limit your speeds in uTorrent: For an individual torrent(s) right-click on it, click Properties and enter the speeds you want in the boxes. You can also use this to help your ratio while downloading - make your download slower than or equal to your upload.

To make a universal maximum speed right-click in the areas of the status bar for upload and download and select the speed.



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This item was edited on Saturday, 17th February 2007, 15:46

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

sj (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 17th February 2007, 16:04

As above. Also always limit your upload - it actually has a HUGE bearing on your download speed. Keep the limit set to about 15 while downloading and 0 when not. This means you get it quicker but if it finishes when you`re in bed for example then instead of only uploading at the lower speed it goes to unlimited upload. (options - preferences - connection. Bandwidth limiting - tick the box.) Use the bottom option to limit your overall download speed but you generally find it`s the upload that kills browsing.. eg mine`s 15 - 0 - 0. but if it`s uploading at full speed and I want to browse I temporarily lower the upload speed.

Also you could use something like netlimiter.

Ste



We will pay the price but we will not count the cost..

This item was edited on Saturday, 17th February 2007, 16:48

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

mbilko (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 18th February 2007, 10:54

Or u could use my tried and tested 110% guaranteed system............
DOWNLOAD WHEN UR NOT USING THE COMPUTER :)

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

Stu UK (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 18th February 2007, 14:59

I just leave mine going overnight when I am not using the PC and you dont bugger up the bandwidth for you fellow users during the day as some greedy ;) buggers do (:¦

mmm chocolate

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

MADTheOgster (Elite Donator) posted this on Sunday, 18th February 2007, 15:05

I just leave mine going overnight when I am not using the PC and you dont bugger up the bandwidth for you fellow users during the day as some greedy Winking buggers do Tongue

i just leave mine downloading full blast 24/7 :D but, i`m on ntl so it disne effect my fellow users, unlike adsl ;) :p





RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

GyneBob (Competent) posted this on Sunday, 18th February 2007, 18:08

since discovering rapidshare i`ve not used utorrent since :)

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

Neiliboy (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 18th February 2007, 18:19

how come- is it alot better?

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Companies that have p**sed me off so much that I will never use them again and I hope you dont either....
Jacks Fish & Chips of Cambridge ridiculously overpriced and overpackaged chips. £1.20 for a stupidly small portion of chips - they need to go up north for a good lesson in fish and chips
Alloy Bodies of Manchester - The Grand Daddy & Benchmark for shockingly poor customer service.
Capital Bank Leasing who are part of [B]BOS
& are f**ing useless & struggle to action the smallest request but are fantastically efficient at taking money out of my account
[B]Abbey National
Absolutely diabolical service - how hard is it to change £60 of coins into notes????
....more coming soon no doubt.....

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

GyneBob (Competent) posted this on Monday, 19th February 2007, 15:58

how come- is it alot better?


a lot faster because you are only downloading and not uploading anything, i only have a 2mb broadband connection but i`ve been hitting 150/160 download speeds.

RE: Internet goes soooo slow when downloading stuff

xfg (Elite Donator) posted this on Monday, 19th February 2007, 16:03

You`d get over 200 on Usenet.

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