July 12 - Your ISP starts monitoring your downloads

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Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy

Thanks, rep for the link. Mimo does not seem to work all that well...it says my speeds are between 5 Mbps and 20 Mbps, but the few downloads I have done have taken way longer than they should. I just need to figure out all the proper tweaks and get the best news reader, etc. to maximize my speed. I set up for 50 connections as well.... I have 16 gigs of ram in my new machine, so I should have enough resources to handle that many connections.

RAM has nothing to do with how many connections you can handle.

In most cases, it's your own connection with your ISP that is the bottleneck. Have you run any speed tests to test your connection? Sometimes you'll have issues that aren't apparent until you're downloading from somewhere with shitloads of bandwidth like Newsgroups.