gavster7 wrote:Hi i have donated and become an unlimited member, I am only getting download speed of 3.05kb/sec?
I have just checked again and it is 302 bytes/sec???????????? (Yes Bytes!)
Not bad for a 50 meg broadband set up.
Where are you located because the server is in Florida, USA. Do you have ANY other bandwidth consuming application open at the moment (such as frostwire/limewire, iTunes, Zune software, any torrent software)?
There are multiple reasons as to why your download could be slower than it should be. I'm an unlimited member (alongside Global Moderator) and I get around 300 kb/s and I live in Michigan, USA. I'm around 15 hours from the server (car trip) and these are the speeds I get with no other bandwidth consuming application open. Sometimes I've even recorded speeds as slow as 80 kb/s, and again, I'm in Michigan, USA when the server is in Florida, USA.
I do not think there is anything wrong with the connection to the server, but you could be trying to access the server when it's under heavy load, and you could live halfway across the world, which may result in really horrid speeds. As HT said, try again another time/day and see if your speed holds. Also try going to
SpeedTest.net and check your speed/connection to the server in Miami, FL of the USA. If you get bad results there, then it may just be because of the distance you are from the server or even possibly the quality of your line. Let us know so we can help diagnose your connection issues. Thanks!
Also do a host trace from this website
Host Trace to our
Home Page and tell us how many steps it takes for you to get to our home page. Thanks for this too!