telewest download speed

Hi,

I am sure this has been asked but I have only just joined this newsgroup.

I have just signed up to telewest and I am trying to download from a
newshosting server. The problem I have is that the speed is no faster than a
512 speed even though I now have 2MB, to be honest it is slower than my
previous tesco account.

Anyway, is there any setting I need to change or is this normal for telewest
(offer 2MB but give a lot less) or is it just because of the time of day (I
have only tried it between 7pm and 10pm).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Alex.

"unlimited.newshosting.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have just signed up to telewest and I am trying to download from a
> newshosting server. The problem I have is that the speed is no faster
> than a
> 512 speed even though I now have 2MB, to be honest it is slower than
> my
> previous tesco account.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Go back to Tesco.
Better still get BE*.
Fastest Broadband supplier in the UK.

"unlimited.newshosting.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:452d6256$0$31941$(E-Mail Removed) ng.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am sure this has been asked but I have only just joined this newsgroup.
>
> I have just signed up to telewest and I am trying to download from a
> newshosting server. The problem I have is that the speed is no faster than
> a
> 512 speed even though I now have 2MB, to be honest it is slower than my
> previous tesco account.
>
> Anyway, is there any setting I need to change or is this normal for
> telewest
> (offer 2MB but give a lot less) or is it just because of the time of day
> (I
> have only tried it between 7pm and 10pm).
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Alex.
>
>

try downloading from a blueyonder server
" text.news.blueyonder.co.uk" you should get a full 250KBs like I do
measured with NetMeter
--

Yddap

"unlimited.newshosting.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:452d6256$0$31941$(E-Mail Removed) ng.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am sure this has been asked but I have only just joined this newsgroup.
>
> I have just signed up to telewest and I am trying to download from a
> newshosting server. The problem I have is that the speed is no faster than
> a
> 512 speed even though I now have 2MB, to be honest it is slower than my
> previous tesco account.
>
> Anyway, is there any setting I need to change or is this normal for
> telewest
> (offer 2MB but give a lot less) or is it just because of the time of day
> (I
> have only tried it between 7pm and 10pm).
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Alex.
>
>
How many connections to the news hosting server are you making? If you are
only doing 1 connection, then you won't get the full download speed. You
will need to set up several connections from your newsreader in order to
achieve the maximum download speed.

For example, 1 connection to giganews give me 160KB/s but with 8
connections, i get the full 490KB/s (4mb)