Just signed on with them, why are they slow for 1 File it went fast (10-14mb/s) for the first 3GB then slowed down to 1-3mb/s for few GBs then back up a little.I Tried doing it several times and the slowdown is always at the same part of the download.
How old are the files you're trying to retrieve? If you read my most recent dissertation on Astra/US problems (once again I have to remind folks to SPECIFY where they are trying to connect to) that I'm seeing generalized slowdowns today, perhaps because they are working on their plant trying to recover missing parts (hopefully).
The Files is about 504 days old and connected to US SSL server(10 c0nnections) Its going at about 400-500 KB/s.Even a file just uploaded now is going slow.Originally Posted by Beck38
Last edited by vigor5000; 03-25-2014 at 01:28 AM.
I just tried to get something about 1050 days old, and it was going doing the 'go fast... go very very slow' routine as well
The upload was getting a bit of slowdown earlier (2-4 hours ago) today, but is going as fast as I can push it now (>5600Kb/s).
I watch them like a hawk (upload 24/7/356 except for maybe a half a day a week leeching whatever), so I generally know when thngs 'take a dump'. Like I said, right now (on uploading) it's going just fine.
Just played around with the servers and setting and noticed that US and EU SSL servers were using port 563, I changed it to 443 then i was able to hit 3-5MB/s, so for some reason I am getting slow speeds on port 563.I gave the ssl.astraweb.com server ago with 20 connections on port 443 and was able to get max 12mb/s with lots of slow downs.
Last edited by vigor5000; 03-25-2014 at 06:57 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
Use 443 for SSL, too easy for ISPs to throttle 563.
Of course, anyone who really wants to avoid any such machinations from their 'local' isp/provider needs to be on a good VPN, and is therefore completely shielded from such nonsense, unless and until they start playing around with trying to slow down THAT traffic which will get the in really big trouble with their commercial customers (like me).
Works fine for me
True, I doubt they'll mess with a VPN tunnel anytime soon. My vpn limits me to 1MB down/up so it would cut my speed. Also Astraweb frequently throws account sharing errors when using.
If you're getting such a slow throughput, you need to find a better provider. Of course, you tend to get what you pay for, and having a good VPN makes it about twice as expensive as the basic usenet account, but it encrypts everything out/in from my network (router VPN). I've never seen any sharing errors, only when I'm 'off network' and don't wait the 5min or so to let things settle. The key is probably having the router do 'everything to everything' on my home net.
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