[Recon Dad]

Speed good.

(I am a serial downloader I won't go further than that. How do you get the speed? I have a normal Roadrunner line should I be looking for something else?)

[TomGuy]

I am a serial downloader I won't go further than that. How do you get the speed?

That is the speed from my pc to the 1 TB drive via USB 2.0 cable, not my download rate.

My dl rate varies with whatever the cable company is doing that day.

Some torrents get greater than 700 kB/s. Other times (and sources), under 50 kB/s.

Via Usenet type news server (nzb files), I get between 150 and 250 KB/s for 4 connections.

I am supposed to have "up to 12Mbps" highspeed cable internet, but many times I am lucky to get half that -- and the latency for webpage loading is ridiculously slow much of the time.