according to the tests on various sites, i should be getting a few thousand kbs a second. im getting like 300-500. is that right, can i get it higer, etc, etc.
oh and it stops downloading after like 10 minutes, than starts again if i restart the program
The program probably counts in KBP/s, rather then KB/s, so the speed is about right.
As for it stopping the download, some more info would be handy.
Like which program your using, what newsprovider, how many threads you're allowed to use, etc.
There's no way you should be expecting "a few thousand" kilobytes a second.
300-400k (which is kilybytes)is decent though, multiply that times 8 for kiloBITS a second, so 2400Kb's or 3200Kb's.
In summary, 300KB/s=2400Kb/s, and 1024Kb/s=1Mb/s, and 1024Mb/s=1Gb/s, and 1024Gb/s=1Tb/s.
Tricky verbiage--no doubt, but your speeds are pretty good. And fiend's probably right about too many feeds, either that and/or your router is crashing from the data moving across it, and/or you're maxing our your downstream which is squelching out your upstream, meaning you can't return the server's ping, so it's dropping you.
Wow---I feel like that won't be easy to understand. Sorry.
Astraweb has a tendecy to wanna timeout / drop connections now and again. I use Astraweb and have been for the last yr or so, use to get kicked off the network via timeouts every so often. Try connecting to their european servers and see if the dropouts keep hanging or try changing ports (gotta use ports Astraweb supports or you wont connect at all)
