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how to get faster speeds?

tom_ass19 · 2005-10-12 09:22:54

Hi! Im living in these college apartments in carlow, its has a 3MB line and its so bloody slow, i think its coz ppl are hogging the bandwith from dl shiot from limeware and all those p2p sharing programs, i dont use it at all coz ive no need for it. is there any way that i can speed up the connection at all. any ideas,

12-10-2005 10:22am

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Hi! Im living in these college apartments in carlow, its has a 3MB line and its so bloody slow, i think its coz ppl are hogging the bandwith from dl shiot from limeware and all those p2p sharing programs, i dont use it at all coz ive no need for it. is there any way that i can speed up the connection at all. any ideas,

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#2 12-10-2005 4:41pm

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if its limewire thats taking up all your bandwidth you can got to tools, options, downloads. there you canset how much bandwidth limewire can use. if thats not it, heres a link to check how much bandwidth you actually are getting with your line at the mo...

http://www.namit.org/

go to extras and then bandwidth tester

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