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hello campers
basically im thick as two short planke when it comes to computers so i hope you can help...basically i connected to the net via a ethernet card through my accomodation as i live in student accom.....i dunno if i got broadband asl asdl or whateva else i apparently have a connectionm of 10.0mbps is the 1 meg???my speed is bollox i have been to tweak sites and mt upload is apparentlyu bigger than my download and my speed is crap any idvice is greatly needed
waterboy
Nothing you can do. It's not your connection. It's all your comrades using p2p software and downloading ****.
Kill them, and see if your bandwith increases.
You could possibly ask the admins to block p2p ports, but I doubt they will.
Hi Waterboy,
Don't know how we can help you...you should ask your dorm manager/supervisor, if you have one, about the connection and see exactly what you have and how you can use it through the school system.
Eg
You have been a member here for over two years, you are UK based, and yet you say you are thick as two short ones, AND your writen English is appalling......
You need to take your time and re-post with details.
Operating system
Laptop / Desktop
Your own / Colleges
Who set it up to access via ethernet card
Generally, you will be connected via the school server at 10 Mbps [ADSL 500 Kbps] you will have the TCP/IP settings for 'private' IP address [192.168.x.x]
So 10 Mbps is TEN times faster than the 1 Mbps that I think you are asking about.
And I cannot make out what it is that you are after, so please clean it up, and try again.
At a guess, you have been having unprotected net access, and your PC is no longer yours :Hax00red:
So to the first list please add :
your security routine :
What you run [AdAware / SpyBot / Anti-Virus / FireWall]
when you run it [Weekly / monthly]
what you've found [lots of / none of]
when did you last run it
Pax
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I need to type [a lot] faster ................first here, third to post :D
The only advice we can offer is find someplace else to plug in your computer. You don't have any real control over the network or ISP, it sounds like, so there isn't much more you can do.
There are some local tweaks that you can do to your computer to help with certain things, but really, you'll only see minor improvements over your current performance.
You could look into local Wireless ISP options. Ricochet is one provider that I've heard of...not sure where they are. You could also look into a solution from one of the cellular/wireless phone providers...although I really don't think you'll want to pay as much as they charge, for the minimal bandwidth you'll get.
Hmmmm,
The general comment that you are a victim of your environment is correct, and I would expect there to be a fair bit of "contention" that reduces your bandwidth. I would suggest that you talk to some of your neighbours and see if they have the same experience.
That would not normally be the case, it sounds as if you have got some malware running. Are you file sharing?Quote:
and mt upload is apparentlyu bigger than my download and my speed is crap any idvice is greatly needed
Please answer Foxy~'s questions on your security routine. Do you have a firewall and up to date AV?
cheers :)
Let us say you are on a 10Mbps internal network connection from your school.
But you think your connection is pretty bad, so you head online to those speed-me-up sites, take a little bandwidth test and they sport you a 1Mbps rating (sometimes less).
WOW...!!
You are losing 9Mbps of bandwidth and you want it back. So you spend the time to follow all their instructions, rebooting several times, adding this program, taking out that instruction and finally head on back to "Speed Me Up".com. Only the tests still show 1Mbps.
Hey... !!
You are getting gypped, right?
Wrong!
Your connection to the college network is 10Mbps Max, that's true. But your connection to the internet will ALWAYS be slower, by far.
Had you been at home on cable, your speed could be from 1.5 to 4Mbps, or ADSL up to 2Mbps or Satellite 750Kbps to 1.5Mbps.
Your internet connection or should I say your college's internet feed to the dorm rooms is probably not much more than 1Mbps per connection, by design.
[/Argument's sake]
But let's say for argument sake that your college boasts a whopping 10Mbps of internet connection, so you plug in only to get 1Mbps. If your computer is running correctly where'd the other 9Mbps go?
Look around your dorm building. You're looking it right in the face.
The other students are eating it alive, with their daily activity of downloading stupid crap.
Not to mention that most universities, colleges (at least in USA) are overrun with student computers eaten up with trojans, virus, spyware, adware and other such bandwidth nasties.
[/End Argument's sake]
So, as the other nice gentlemen have explained, not much we can do for you.
Sheesh....happens all the time to me on this forum.Quote:
Originally posted here by foxyloxley
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I need to type [a lot] faster ................first here, third to post :D
/me points to his 6 Mbps cable modem serviceQuote:
Originally posted here by ZT3000
Had you been at home on cable, your speed could be from 1.5 to 4Mbps, or ADSL up to 2Mbps or Satellite 750Kbps to 1.5Mbps.
And to plagiarize the American Dairy Association campaign...
Got bandwidth?
Got ping?
Got phat-pipe?
Choose your favorite. :D
You aint jack, buddy. I was here when the post WENT ONLINE and still ended up...well...way WAY down there.Quote:
Originally posted here by foxyloxley
I need to type [a lot] faster ................first here, third to post :D
You dirty dog, you!!Quote:
Originally posted here by zencoder
/me points to his 6 Mbps cable modem service
And to plagiarize the American Dairy Association campaign...
Got bandwidth?
Got ping?
Got phat-pipe?
Choose your favorite. :D
Your posts are too small....you must'a been thinking too hard.Quote:
Originally posted here by zencoder
You aint jack, buddy. I was here when the post WENT ONLINE and still ended up...well...way WAY down there.
:p
hello all thanks for your help...i see theres not much i can do....as it goes i do have an uptodate anti virus/firewall and i also run adaware....
cheers for your help in this matter
waterboy
waterboy
Hi, you still haven't given enough information.
You say your computer is slow.............
1. Is that just internet connections, or is it the computer in general?
2. What are the processor and memory (RAM) specifications?
3. What operating system are you running?
4. What web browser are you using?
5. Does performance vary with the time of day.?
6. Have you checked your resource usage when it is running slow?
7. When did you last clear out your history and cache files?
Update your AV and AdAware then re-boot into SAFE MODE and run them...........find anything?
Whilst you are in safe mode, defragment your hard drive.
I am still concerned with the upload being more than the download :confused: I usually estimate about 25% as a reasonable ratio...............on my ADSL link uploads are at half speed anyway.
Do you have file sharing enabled?
I am curious as to why you think your machine is slow...........sure, as pointed out, you will not get 10MBPS, but if you are getting 1MBPS you are running twice as fast as I am :D , and I don't think that this machine is slow. What are you comparing it to?
Can you check with you neighbours and perhaps people on a different spur (different building)..............it could even be a hardware problem.............I have seen that before.............either your machine, or the network, or both. It would be nice if you had a friend with a laptop who could bring it to test your connection. If there is little or no difference, then that will rule out your personal kit.
Please post back, as even if we cannot improve things much, we will at least have exhausted some of the possibilities and gained further insight into the problem?
Cheers :)
Hi Waterboy,
To add to foxyloxley's and nihil's questions...just to clarify, as everyone has a different standard of slow...what is your definition of slow?
I'm running at 45.2kbps...alot less than 1mbps...( and I still got in before foxyloxley, zencoder, and ZT3000...and I started when no one was here too :D :p )
Eg ;)