Re: Giganews Speeds
 

I have been having similar issues, I am on Virgin 20Mb and have an unlimited Giganews account, I live in the Wigan area.

On Tuesday evening I was getting a lot of really bad packet loss no matter what I was connecting to.

Since then I have only been able to download between 700 and 800 kbytes / sec

The only advantage is that my connection hasnt been dropping to 300 kbytes/ sec when the traffic shaping should have kicked in.

Same speeds to both US and EU Giganews servers.

Virgin Have deff changed something

Re: Giganews Speeds
 

I have had no issues with my 20meg broadband until around 5 days ago (making it around 5~6th Oct), no matter what time of day it is, I cannot get above 4meg/6meg on both news-europe.giganews.com and news.giganews.com... on a 20meg service, it is starting to irritate me.

Re: Giganews Speeds
 

I had no problems with Giganews however I just switched to Astraweb 160 day retention 99% complete 20 connections ssl and the dsl max is on offer fro $11 a month. It maxes my connection most of the time its only slower when VM are the cause so far