I'm completely stumped. Other readers download binaries at 6+MB/s, but UE seems stuck at 768KB/s. Initially, I get about 1.5MB/s with UE, then the speed tapers down to a pretty steady 768KB/s. I have no bandwidth limit set, I've tried multiple ports, I've tried multiple macines, and I've tried multiple different connectiones, but UE is the only client that gives me this problem. I've direct-connected with no firewall active, I've set UE to the highest and real-time priorities in task manager, I've un-installed and re-installed UE, and, like I said, I've tried other clients that give me full bandwidth. Is there something "stuck" in UE somewhere that doesn't get wiped out when I delete the UE folder and re-install?
I'm using Comcast and Usenetserver.
Any help is appreciated...
Why does my bandwidth seem capped?
let's get some additional information...
For your testing, was UE running locally to each machine or on a network share? If locally, did you copy the complete database over or install clean (perhaps a bad setting somewhere is messing it up if you copied the database over)
hardware types? (i.e. fast enough hard drive, available memory etc to handle the i/o)
What antivirus?
Zone alarm installed?
What router do you use? newest firmware?
UE settings:
Edit -> Properties -> General:
keep connections alive checked or unchecked?
Edit -> Properties -> Tasks:
Bandwidth limiting set anywhere?
How many tasks are set for bodies? Are you downloading headers as well?
Edit -> Properties -> Scheduler:
Is this enabled? Is a bandwidth setting set anywhere?
That should get us started
For your testing, was UE running locally to each machine or on a network share? If locally, did you copy the complete database over or install clean (perhaps a bad setting somewhere is messing it up if you copied the database over)
hardware types? (i.e. fast enough hard drive, available memory etc to handle the i/o)
What antivirus?
Zone alarm installed?
What router do you use? newest firmware?
UE settings:
Edit -> Properties -> General:
keep connections alive checked or unchecked?
Edit -> Properties -> Tasks:
Bandwidth limiting set anywhere?
How many tasks are set for bodies? Are you downloading headers as well?
Edit -> Properties -> Scheduler:
Is this enabled? Is a bandwidth setting set anywhere?
That should get us started
Uh, I think 775-800KB/s is about right for a 6+MB connection. That's 775KB/s not Kb/s. I'm pretty sure you multiply KB/s by 8. So 765*8=6120 or 6.1MB
Oh, and yes, you are being capped... by your ISP.
Several weeks ago we had a pretty good storm blow through. It knocked the power out around here for a few days. When it finally came back up, my cable modem had been reset (not in the same way pressing the reset button works) and my cap was removed. For more than a week I was getting speeds of 4,000-4,500 KB/s (in NP)... thats over 30MB/s. I know I could have gotten even faster speeds but NP and my non-PCIe SATA hard drives simply couldn't keep up with the bandwidth. Seriously. If I had a newer motherboard with PCIe which can actually utilize the SATA/300 drives to full potential, I think I'd have seen much greater speeds.
I read up on it and apparently when a modem makes it's first contact with the ISP, they flash it with their settings... like a bandwidth cap of their choosing. It was kinda funny... after about a week, the ISP (Comcast) must have caught on because a few times a day they would remotely reset the modem attempting to update it, but for some reason it wouldn't take. Finally, they were successful though and now I'm back at my usual 6MB (785KB/s) connection.
Timogin
Oh, and yes, you are being capped... by your ISP.
Several weeks ago we had a pretty good storm blow through. It knocked the power out around here for a few days. When it finally came back up, my cable modem had been reset (not in the same way pressing the reset button works) and my cap was removed. For more than a week I was getting speeds of 4,000-4,500 KB/s (in NP)... thats over 30MB/s. I know I could have gotten even faster speeds but NP and my non-PCIe SATA hard drives simply couldn't keep up with the bandwidth. Seriously. If I had a newer motherboard with PCIe which can actually utilize the SATA/300 drives to full potential, I think I'd have seen much greater speeds.
I read up on it and apparently when a modem makes it's first contact with the ISP, they flash it with their settings... like a bandwidth cap of their choosing. It was kinda funny... after about a week, the ISP (Comcast) must have caught on because a few times a day they would remotely reset the modem attempting to update it, but for some reason it wouldn't take. Finally, they were successful though and now I'm back at my usual 6MB (785KB/s) connection.
Timogin
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Gary Gnews
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Thanks, guys, for your responses.
I think Timogin's right. Stupid error of thinking on my part, I guess, but I was confused by the way UE initially reports my speed as something like "1.5 MB/s," then "2.6 MB/s" as the speed picks up, then switches to "768 KB/s." I assumed that 2.6MB/s meant megabits/s and and KB/s meant kilobits per second since, watching the console as this happens, it honestly looks like the speed at which the binary pieces (ex: 3/356, 4/356) tick by actually slows down around the time of the switch from MB/s to KB/s. In fact, it DOES. the initial speeds of 2.6MB must represent MegaBYTES per second -- a probable result of Comcast's new-ish "powerboost" implementation. So, yeah...for a few seconds, I get speeds of over 2600 KB/s, reprted as 2.6MB/s by UE. Since this kind of speed is a newish thing from Comcast, I had never seen the switch from MB/s to KB/s in the past, and just assumed that my throughput wasn't what it used to be. heh...duh.
Thanks again, guys...
I think Timogin's right. Stupid error of thinking on my part, I guess, but I was confused by the way UE initially reports my speed as something like "1.5 MB/s," then "2.6 MB/s" as the speed picks up, then switches to "768 KB/s." I assumed that 2.6MB/s meant megabits/s and and KB/s meant kilobits per second since, watching the console as this happens, it honestly looks like the speed at which the binary pieces (ex: 3/356, 4/356) tick by actually slows down around the time of the switch from MB/s to KB/s. In fact, it DOES. the initial speeds of 2.6MB must represent MegaBYTES per second -- a probable result of Comcast's new-ish "powerboost" implementation. So, yeah...for a few seconds, I get speeds of over 2600 KB/s, reprted as 2.6MB/s by UE. Since this kind of speed is a newish thing from Comcast, I had never seen the switch from MB/s to KB/s in the past, and just assumed that my throughput wasn't what it used to be. heh...duh.
Thanks again, guys...
-- GG