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Jabbs · 16-06-2009, 14:55

I wouldn't advise anyone to upgrade to 50 meg, had mine for around 12 days and the speeds are crap now, there is no over subscribing here i had a constant 20 meg for 19 months before this, its the fluctuating speeds that get on my nerves with it.

One minute it can be flying at 6mb/s then its down to 2mb/s at best for ages, i phone up there tech part and they say try the blue yonder demo site blah blah i try it and the speeds are crap, they say they have done something and then 30 mins later the speeds are gone.

My advice if you have a good connection DON'T rush and upgrade your service because 50mb is pants for usenet, using Astraweb is giving me speeds of 2800kbs, i just signed up to giganews free trial to see and hitting around 3900kbs( so giganews certainly faster out of the 2).

As a guide i just downloaded from the internet at 5900kbs doing a test file of 900meg, switch back to usenet and both providers only offering me the speeds i posted above so it certainly looks to me they are doing things to usenet.

16-06-2009, 14:55	#883
Jabbs Inactive Join Date: Jun 2007 Age: 54 Services: 50MB Cable - XL TV - XL Phone - 2 x V+ HD - 1 x Standard Posts: 191	Re: 50Mb areas I wouldn't advise anyone to upgrade to 50 meg, had mine for around 12 days and the speeds are crap now, there is no over subscribing here i had a constant 20 meg for 19 months before this, its the fluctuating speeds that get on my nerves with it. One minute it can be flying at 6mb/s then its down to 2mb/s at best for ages, i phone up there tech part and they say try the blue yonder demo site blah blah i try it and the speeds are crap, they say they have done something and then 30 mins later the speeds are gone. My advice if you have a good connection DON'T rush and upgrade your service because 50mb is pants for usenet, using Astraweb is giving me speeds of 2800kbs, i just signed up to giganews free trial to see and hitting around 3900kbs( so giganews certainly faster out of the 2). As a guide i just downloaded from the internet at 5900kbs doing a test file of 900meg, switch back to usenet and both providers only offering me the speeds i posted above so it certainly looks to me they are doing things to usenet.