VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

I'm a current subscriber to astraweb unlimited. I found that downloading through of any the ports supported by Astraweb would not go higher than 0.2mb and then the speed would gradually decrease to 0. This was outside peak hours, e.g. after 9pm and I have tried downloading at midnight just to be sure. This has only started happening within the past 3 days and wondering if VM is now throttling usenet?

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

They have been for months. Runs from 5pm to midnight weekdays and midday to midnight weekends.

http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/tra...nt-policy.html

If it was still slow after midnight then maybe some other problem?

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

Try both SSL ports (your usenet software will have to support SSL) as you'll probably find that one gives better speeds than the other..

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

Are you downloading wired or wireless?

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

I use Giganews which comes with a VPN solution which works for me.

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

I have seen that table before and it doesn't state anywhere of traffic management from 5pm to midnight weekdays and midday to midnight weekends?

Have tried ssl and I get this error message from sabnzbd: 502 Your per-user connection limit reached

Which is strange because im not sharing my astraweb account with anyone, will check this with astraweb support

wireless. I have been downloading through wireless pefectly fine up until a couple of days ago.

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

That's common when trying to use all the connections, the previous ones don't have time to log out before your news program creates new ones..

I'm on 10Mb and find that 6 connections will give me full speed. You should only ever use the minimum connections needed to get the speed you need as too many connections can slow you down as the connection gets overloaded.

Which VM BB service are you on?

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

Should've gone to SpecSavers ..

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

Perhaps he should have read this post and used the method?? ;)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34202980-post297.html

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

I don't use newsgroups but from what I've seen posted just using SSL bypasses the VM traffic management anyway. Seems they must only be using shallow packet inspection :)

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

I have always used the VM newsgroups and as an example of traffic management, last night i tried to refresh a group and was only getting 120k/sec (about 23:30) and now I am blasting away at a solid 6mb/sec and it is 10:16. It is just choosing the right time of day dude.

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

It would kinda defeat the point of SSL/TLS if you could inspect what the payload is easily :)

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

I doubt it takes much processing power to figure out what a direct SSL connection to an IP owned by one of the common news servers is carrying. If it was a private VPN then I guess that would be different.

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

My VPN means i don't understand what Shaping is because i dont suffer from it ;)

Re: VM Throttling Usenet (Port 119, 1818, 23)
 

I will give this a shot and let you know.

Ah man I hope this isn't the case, but wouldn't surprise me if it is :S

I think i remember reading a cf post somewhere that virgin media just simply monitors the volume of traffic going in and out and doesn't need to inpsect what the traffic is. So i don't think there is anyway to by pass their shaping policy..