Tweaknews slow speeds

[whiteboy]

I just signed up for the basic account. Speeds are supposed to be 10Mbit. I am getting 425kb/s. Is this normal? My connection is 15Mbit. THis is pretty crappy for usenet. I am located in the US. I did not even see the trial offer before I paid. Wonder if I can get a refund if this keeps up. Pretty dang slow.

[950Sidewinder]

Been on the 10Mbit account for about a year. There will be the odd day or so it may have a slow patch. For the most part it is steady in my experience.

[chakara]

Well all I can say is that I've been maxing out my 2MBps (16Mbps to you) connection w/o any issues.

[smv]

got enough lines available?

check the configuration how it should be and what you have from tweaknews.

[firebirduk]

Going a little slower than normal for me to, but not so bad as for me to complain...

[pokitisme]

the few times i used it it was slow all the time--im in kcmo if that helps--it would be around 500 kbs 2 hours for a normal dvd5

[950Sidewinder]

Keep in mind, like it has already been mentioned, you do have to open multiple connections to their server within your usenet software in order to see those speeds. If you have fast internet you won't see your potential speed until you do. Whichever plan you signed up with at Tweaknews will tell you in the details how many multiple connections can be opened. You can then take those details and set that up in your software.

[pokitisme]

out of curiosity your using tweak but how many connections are you using and without going into detail if u wish what other servers/connections do you use with the tweak connection.i was using 7 connections to tweak 7 to newshosting and 4 to french newshosting at the same time and i got combined speeds of 4.8 megs but as soon as i removed the faster server such as nh the speeds dropped to 4/5 hundred kbs and when downloading files using the combined u could see the tweak lagging behind nh.so did you see the same issue with your use of tweak usage.cause according to what ur saying maxing out the tweak connections would drastically increase speeds-so technically if i jumped my 7 to 14 i would get 1mbs out of tweak.

[950Sidewinder]

I'm on the 10Mbit account which allows for a max 10 connections. Doing a test utilizing 1 connection it floats around 1Mbit. When all 10 connections are used I reach 10Mbit. I only have Tweak and no one else using Newsleecher as my software.

[whiteboy]

I had the maximum amount of connections I could use open. I got impatient and went back to astra. Their deal was too good to pass up.