What's with my speeds?

**Skiz** · 07-11-2009, 04:50 PM

I have had a 7 Mb/s connection for some time now and regularly get speeds of 800+ kB/s. That is just fine as it is right in line with what my connection speed is.

Just now I did a speed test and got this:

Now, unless I'm mistaken that is a lot faster connection as it is now showing I have a 14 Mb/s connection. Right? I'm still only getting the same 800+ kB/s in my news client though.

**tesco** · 07-11-2009, 04:52 PM

either speedtest site is fucked up or you just got upgraded...

**Skiz** · 07-11-2009, 04:57 PM

It's not the speedtest site as I checked two different sites.

If I got upgraded, my client should be downloading at an increased speed though.

**tesco** · 07-11-2009, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Skiz

It's not the speedtest site as I checked two different sites.

If I got upgraded, my client should be downloading at an increased speed though.

Correct.

**SonsOfLiberty** · 07-11-2009, 06:20 PM

Reset you clients settings and reset them...or do you have "a certain speed set" or set to unlimted?

**Skiz** · 07-11-2009, 06:52 PM

Alt.Binz has a maximum speed setting but I always leave it as the default, which is zero, or unlimited.

I've even tried setting it to 999999 though just to see what happened and it's still the same.

**SonsOfLiberty** · 07-11-2009, 09:16 PM

Alright, grab something off a download site like:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/

Just grab something decently big and see what speeds you get, through whatever browser you use.