Orcon Bitsteam @ 500 KB/s ???

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joeboo

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#10854 15-Dec-2006 20:13

I'm on an Orcon bitstream plan and this week have been able to download at 500 KB/s ???
I managed 5 Gb in about 24 hours.

All the downloads were linux distros
ubuntu, suse, freespire....

Does anyone know if orcon ar doing some sort of file caching
It does look like torrents are still at regular sped 30 KB/s

Maybe It's just me but I'd be interested to know if anyone else has experienced anything like this.

bradstewart

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#55605 15-Dec-2006 20:37

Ive been getting uncommonly high speeds as well. HTTP traffic at around 800KB and torrents 200-300KB

Digikiwi

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#56015 21-Dec-2006 00:15

I'm still on the Advance 40 plan 256/128 but have been getting much higher download speeds, accompanied with frequent adsl disconnects (netgear dg834g - not uncommon it seems). No less than 74 in the last 24 hours!

Lipex666

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#56021 21-Dec-2006 06:25

Me to I'm still on the Advance 40 plan 256/128 and my argh hum downloads have started to rocket along for the last week.

No time outs on my dick smith adsl router but xp will loose a internet connection where I have to disable my internet connect (under control panel) and reenable again. I gave my pc a fixed ip to make port forwarding work, though I think is is some sort of time out as when downloading its fine.

Whatever happened might have been all those people that moved to go large and are now handicapped freeing up the network for the rest of us.

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#56022 21-Dec-2006 06:43

I'm wondering if its more than just Orcon, I got telstraclear and had it up past 500k a sec the other day also

sectoid

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#56147 22-Dec-2006 09:37

5gb in 24hrs isnt that much, only about 60KB/s overall. of course you probably only downloaded at that speed for a few hours/mins.
telstraclear cable is awesome. my friend regularly gets over 800KB/s on torrents... but data is expensive.
switch to slingshot, for all their problems torrents arent shaped, i get over 200KB/s on torrents any time of the day and extra GBs are v.cheap. i've done about 25gb since tuesday.