Astraweb speed issue

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Since the previous astraweb thread got deleted I am making this thread specificaly for my problem. And just so this thread doesn't go off track like the previous one, do NOT post about warez or NZB sites, as that will cause this to get deleted too.

For some reason on astraweb I dont get full speed untill the late evening. My VM connection is capable of 20Mb, and i get that speed at all times of the day if i use a torrent or a HTTP download, yet for some reason when i connect to astrawebs servers I cant reach above 5Mb untill later in the evening when i can fully max it out. I'm connecting to the EU SSL astraweb server, I havn't tried any of the other servers yet as I am hoping the EU server would be best.

Does anyone else have similar issues, or knows the cause/solution?
 
Does the problem exist on both SSL and non encrypted? Tried all ports? I assume your making the maximum of 20 connections per port?
 
Very strange. Im on VM 20mb and i can max my astraweb connection out at all times of the day.
Ive just this second checked and i was getting max speed of 2.34mb/sec.
Im connecting to the EU farm with SSL.

Sounds like its a VM problem with routing than astraweb.
 
I am also having problems with astraweb...using the eu SSL server and port 443.I usually download after 11pm.Through 7 days it usually happens about two or three times and i get very low speeds(around 180kb mark) yet the rest of the days im hitting 750kbps or thereabouts at 11.01pm.Downloading from a website my speed seems to be fine,im not complaining though as its very cheap for what i do get but its strange as iv'e heard astraweb is one of the best.
 
I've been having similar issues - always seem to occur around what I consider 'peak' times (5-7pm) - so I assumed it was VM traffic problems - will have to dig around and see if we can ID the problem...
 
Have any of you tried contacting Astra or posting in their newsgroup? Don't know about Astra but I've seen how helpful other providers I've been with can be, changing routing and the like to try and track down speed problems. You can also do a reverse traceroute from their site to see if any hops are particularly slow.
 
I never managed to source the problem, but whatever it was the issue seems to have resolved itself now. I tried on the astraweb EU ssl, US ssl and a non-ssl server, and all had the same issue until i tried today and it all seems to be working fine.
 
Astraweb maxes my 50mb connection out and i only use 12 connections, as there is no stm on 50mb yet i get these speeds day or night.
 
different issue but it takes me ages to connect to astraweb, once i'm connected it max's my VM 20mb. i get the 10061 error, although after 2mins or so it just connects? (i have set it to retry every 10secs), could this indicate overload on Astraweb and link into the OP issue?
 
I think its a case of getting what you pay for.

Astra web are the lowest priced people about, they have been heavily advertising and may be on the verge of over subscribing perhaps?

Of course this is all me guessing:D

Im with them and on my 20mb connection always max it but on my 100mb connection i normally only get 10mb download speeds. very odd
 
Perhaps, although strange some people comment that they are getting maxed out all the time, what packages are people on?

As you say it's dirt cheap especially on the PAYG package which I am on and so doesn't really bother me too much, I was on Thundernews before and maxed out all the time but I'm much happier not being maxed out and paying about 3 quid a month with the speed I am getting through the 180GB, nothing I download is urgent and smaller files download quick enough anyway.
 
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