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Jig Chippewa
Fine Young Cannibal
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 5,150
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11-01-2008 08:32
Okay, here's something for teh Saturday crowd. What is teh best bandwidth to select on the prefernces slider. I am using a dell inspiron with a large phone company cable, but somewhat isolated - well call it "isolated" and off teh road. This may help many of us if someone can give a definite answer. Thanks!
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Weston Graves
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Join date: 24 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,059
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11-01-2008 15:14
I have no idea of the best bandwidth, but I do love your thread title. Thought I'd say that and bump it.
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Nyoko Salome
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Join date: 18 Jul 2005
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11-01-2008 15:19
:0 humm, i've a common cable carrier for a good while now, and found my sweet spot at 800 
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Void Singer
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Join date: 24 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,973
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11-02-2008 00:59
depends on your usage, and your actual line speed.
I'd say watch your bandwith consumption, (the little meter in the top right corner, mouseover to get numbers) and bump it up if it's maxing out...
although there is no point going over what your line normally carries...
and if you run multiple clients, then make sure to limit each to a fractional part of what your line carries, no sense flooding your line when only so much can get through...
you may also want to limit it a bit if you run a lot of net enabled and heavy usage software in the back ground (like P2P clients, webservers, etc)... this applies to all computers using the same line
me personally, I just max mine =)
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Wulfric Chevalier
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Join date: 22 Dec 2006
Posts: 947
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11-02-2008 01:50
They used to recommend about 2/3 of your linespeed, but since the highest you can set it in preferences is 1500kbps, many people will have much faster connections than that.
In the debug menu there's an option something like ThrottleBandwidth which lets you go higher. I have mine set at 5000kbps for an 8Mbps line, but to be honest I haven't seen much difference from when it was set at 1500kbps.
Trial and error is probably the best way to get it right for you, but if your linespeed varies, as mine seems to, you could end up tweaking it daily for best performance.
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Atom Burma
Registered User
Join date: 30 May 2006
Posts: 685
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11-02-2008 02:18
I don't know about the rest of you, but mine changes far too often to use just one setting, I would love a preset list in the preferences, so I could preset a high and low setting based on my own specs. As for one setting, so far I am always switching between two almost daily.
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