News servers problem
 

Hi first post ive been having problems with vm news servers been using over 2yrs now no problems at all then friday very slow telling me 5 days to download 4.3Gb file. When it normally takes 20- 35mins contacted vm and my download speeds are fine not sure if they are messing with there servers i know they have a problem with my vigin media heres the code F001676675 on there service status site but would this affect the news servers .

Re: News servers problem
 

I think i'm having the same as you, I tried Friday for the first time in a while and I was getting really odd variable speeds, but all converging to 0Kb/s

I just got about 10 mins of 1.2Mb/s (I'm on 20Mb VM) then it dropped off to 0, then I've done nothing to assist it and it shot back up. I can't tell whether it's VM or my newsprovider though (Im with Blocknews.net) as I don't know how I could test anything to download over http for example, also I don't know if I've reached that stupid cap yet. I normally always saturate my 20Mb until the cap hits then I get the max I should get under the capping rules.
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Re: News servers problem
 

Hi thanks for reply it does seem they are having problems then im getting the same problem droping off to 0Kb/s

Re: News servers problem
 

Hi all my problems vanished this morning around 6AM i think someone at vm may have took notice as on was on the phone all weekend to them.

Re: News servers problem
 

Throtting, aka STM. VM's servers are pathetic anyway. Try Astraweb and open at least 16 connections to them.

Re: News servers problem
 

Just thought I'd update. Carried on getting variable service on Blocknews (port 443, 4443 etc) I moved to another provider and using port 80 and its better.

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if you try to download during peak hours from usenet Virgin strangle the bandwidth - sometimes to virtually zero.

Re: News servers problem
 

yeah, I only ever get 120k or so during peak hours so i dont even bother. I try to do all my download between 2100-1500. That being said though, I have been having the problem the op mentioned for the last 2 years or so now, my downloads will blast away at a solid 6mb/sec, then hit 0 for 30secs-1min and then fly off again