Forums Connection Issues Download speed, PLEASE PLEASE HELP!

I switched internet providers, from earthlink to optimum online which is supposed to be faster, and well in some pages and downloads its amazing, as fast as I have ever seen a home connection go, BUT in mirc when downloading files I can't get more than 50k or 45k per/sec which used to be 500k per sec in earthlink, so with OOL I should get about the same or more, what can I do? please help, are there any other options I could look at or any settings that could be modified? thanks

I cannot think of a good legal reason why you would need to download via mIRC with a download speed faster than 45-50kbps (IMO you don't even need that).

If you're downloading mp3s, movies, software, books etc, then you are breaking copyright laws. Remember that mIRC and IRC is for chatting (hence Internet Relay Chat), it's not for mass/illegal file trading - not even the author of mIRC agrees with it. On top of all this it's a good way to get yourself infected with a virus which could potentially (and ironically) end up with you losing all your already-downloaded files.

Read this post for confirmation/information.

Happy chattin'!

Regards,

you didn't answer my question but thanks anyway

That is because my answer was that we don't help with mass/illegal file trading - it was pretty obvious that's what you are/were doing, further confirmed by a lack of denial.

The post link I put in my last post was supposed to act as a confirmation by board staff that we don't help with it, and to show it was not just my ranting opinions

Regards,

As Mentality said, we dont help with mass filesharing here, but as an fyi in general:
aside from you may be confusing kilobytes per sec with kilobits per sec, (1 cps = 8 bits/secs = 1 byte/secs, mIRC shows cps) you may want to take a look at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cable,opt
with note to the capping discussion there

Fast in theory is not always fast in practice. I am on Bigpond Cable which is uncapped in both directions allowing a theoretical 8000kbs either way. It's not always that fast though. Bigpond is a subsidiary of Telstra, Australia's largest (by far) phone/Net company and as such has HUGE capacity and speed with many 'dark' (not used) lines so there is also heaps in reserve. Internet traffic is subject to other things however, not just what the ISP will let you do and what speed they let you do it at, but also the amount of customers they have, what those customers are collectively doing, whether the ISP is a wholesaler (sells bandwidth to other smaller ISPs) as well as a retailer and what else the network is used for (in my case Pay TV as well as the Net).

Customers on your new ISP may be using more bandwidth which is always going to slow things down, even a little. Activity does not have to be illegal to consume bandwidth but quite often the bandwidth hoggers are doing exactly that - mass emailing people and filesharing copyright material are two of many big consumers of bandwidth.

One other thing is that ISPs don't benchmark their networks while they are under big loads. To do so is not good business sense because under load there is always a lesser result. This is why they all say "Our network can go this fast" in big lettering and then on the back page in 1pt lettering the disclaimer says something like "Theoretical network performance".

Caveat Emptor.