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I am on BT Infinity and can only get 7MBps on Newsbin. I have tried different ports, disabling the email and using SSL but it still stays the same. I am using Astraweb and the latest version of Newsbin Pro. Could it be Astraweb? Or could it be Newsbin? Should I try a different newsreader?

can anybody shed any light on this?I have been mucking about for days with it and google doesn't help anything.

It's probably your ISP throttling you down.

How many connections are you using (server options)?

Down on the status bar, what do the "Cache" numbers show?

Any errors listed in the logging tab?

Got 50 connection open but it's the same when I used 4, 10, 20 etc...

cache is 49/100

Only thing in Logging says Par2repaier Multicore 1.3


Thanks for responding. It probably is my ISP. 7MBps is fast but you know what it's like. I can get 76MBps so I WANT 76MBps

Pretty sure AW doesn't support 50 connections. That might be part of the problem. I'd set it to 10 then restart Newsbin. Might even wait a little while before you start downloading. Running too many connections will just start a stream of errors that eventually prevents download.

You could try signing up with a VPN and see if it's faster through a VPN.

Dudeface wrote:I am on BT Infinity and can only get 7MBps on Newsbin. I have tried different ports, disabling the email and using SSL but it still stays the same.

According to the public webpages BT Infinity promises "up to 76Mb", not 76 MBps! Or if we convert it to MBps (uppercase-B) their claim is "up to 9.5 MBps".

The case of the B matters because lower-case b stands for bits and upper-case B stands for Byte and there's 8 bits per Byte (usually). NBP lists both values for your convenience.

Now, it's possible that you also misquoted NBP's values and that it actually reports 7Mbps / ~600 kBps but it seems likely that the problem is that you mistaken b-vs-B and that you get a perfectly reasonable speed ("up to" for consumer lines almost always mean "don't expect to ever hit this, but now and then you could come close for a short period").

Yeah, good point.

Absolute bob on

yep I was getting mixed up with MBps and Mbps

Schoolboy error. It would have been like lightning if I got it faster!