Please help me! (downloads)

[stumpy]

I recently moved from ISDN to cable expecting a better performance, but apart from the ping (about 45-65 on Kingpin)the downloading of maps and skins are SO slow!
I recently reformatted, so I needed to obtain all the maps and skins again.
When the map starts to load the first 10k fly and then it crawls at about 1k a second until it reaches 100k, then it speeds up.(Remember this is all servers everywhere, not just the same one).
When I download skins it takes ages because they are so small in k's.
I know I can turn off skins,etc, but something is not right.
Everything in the game is set up properly.
Normal files from websites mostly download okay,with a few slow ones but not many.
Hope someone can help.

[Pimper]

The bandwidth on game servers is usually capped at 2k a sec perclient theis is to stop people like you with fast connections connecting and dling a map at 100k/sec and lagging the server. The best idead is to dl the maps and skins seperately then install them.
Hope this clears up ya worries for ya

Cheers
Pimper

[rider]

then how come I get a download from WP that hits about 400,000 bytes/sec? and more even.

It goes from 32,000 bytes/sec and then just expands exponentially until it finishes the download - I understand the capping, but I only got that with a modem which was infuriatingly around 1000 bytes/sec everytime

I must have one son of a bitch adsl connection

****

[rider]

I get the distinct impressions it's all a ruse

maybe WP have gotten bytes mixed with a googleplex algorithm just to trick me

:)