TimmBurrWolfe

Help!! It is probably me beeing dumb, but Apex seems to be rnning very slow on my machine. I have a direct connection via ADSL modem, Norton Firewall at 1.1Mb down link and 256Kb up link. When I have ApexDC++ running (Ver 0.3.0) my upload speed is around 32Kb/s overall with 3 slots open, but my download speed is never greater than 32Kb/s. Individual downloads never get over 2 or 3 kb/s each. Also no download ever has more than 1 or 2 segments. Another thing is that while ApexDC++ is running the rest of my PC almost grinds to a halt!! I suspect that I have messed up some of the settings and have only myself to blame, so if any one can help me please I would appreciate it Cheers Tim

Thanks for the quick replies guys, I have a feeling this might take some time to resolve given my knowledge and experience in matters pertaining to the internet!! But here goes... I have run a speed test and it says that my results are: Download: 292 kbps which is 54% lower than the average for my ISP Upload: 239 kbps which is 12% lower than the average for my ISP This would suggest there is a problem with my download connection? I also ran a tweak test, but this said that everything was more or less ok the URL for the results is 'here' I ran both test several times with pretty similar results. I had nothing else running on my machine at the time. Yes I have selected 'send garbage' in advanced settings. Not quite sure what you mean here with CPU or Network connections! Or what my percentages are! My CPU is a modest 2.6GHz and I have 512Mb Ram running WinXP Serv Pk 2, I am also behind a Norton Firewall (Internet Security 2006). If I have Apex running minimised in the background, everything else Word, Excel, Email runs like a dog (very slowly). I have Apex set up with 10 download and 4 upload slots usually connected to quite a few smaller hubs (20-30), I have not got the limiter set, so am not choking other users. Sorry to sound so dumb and appologies also for the mega long post. Thanks in advance Tim