How Do I Increase Download Speeds?

[roy31williams]

im trying to download a game from newsbin and its only goin 21/kbps..... at that rate it will take 17 days! thats too slow for me. i have a cable connection, and i know it can go faster. i noticed everybody saying they get extremely high speeds. what should i do?

[T0TAL-RECALL]

Check stuff like...

Router
Firewall
Anti Virus
Connections (Most providers allow 4 or more)

I use Avast anti-virus but since it checks files as they come through I cant run it while downloading from Newsgroups.

[roy31williams]

it goes extremely slow.... but when i download all headers from a group. it jumps to like 1/mbps..strange....

[riceboi]

what news-server are u using ? what isp? what server?

[roy31williams]

newsbin

roadrunner

news-server.satx.rr.com

[spirex]

That newsserver has bad retention at less than a day but completion is pretty good. Its was going slow the past couple of days even though the network status page at http://help.rr.com/HMSLogic/network_status.aspx says green. You can have up to three connections even though the help page says four

[riceboi]

i have rr ..and yes rr new-server is total crap..retention is around 20 HOURS and completion is around 50 percent even with par files it will not repair it..so dont even bother with it..suggest u get a premium newsserver like newshosting or giganews instead

[macmason]

with mine i am allowed 10 connections like guy said above

if i selected 1 connection i get low speed like 200kbs but when do all 10 i get 1023kbs , thats what i have right now

have you tried that ?

[Chewie]

Newsbin caps the download speed after the trial period unless you register or crack it.
I bought it. :)

[Pray 4 Death]

RR news servers are ass. Get a decent usenet provider.