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Originally Posted by bigsinky
wonder how long Supernews will last before it goes the same way as astraweb. victims of their success it seems. i am still getting ok speeds with astra
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Supernews directly resell Giganews, who have arguably the best network in the Usenet world. There's not much danger of them (Giga) having network issues, and they can easily saturate a 200Mbps line never mind a few extra UK broadband lines.
I was with Giganews for years, but jumped ship to Astraweb for 18 months after the strengthening dollar made them (Giga) ever more expensive. Astra was great until just before xmas, when the incompletes, authentication issues and speed problems started. Sadly it seems it's rather Astraweb who have become a victim of their own popularity.
I'm over with Supernews now (with a fill server for >350 day articles) and get 6MB/sec no problems. At only $10 a month you can't really go wrong!
Curious to read of the EU server IP for them in this thread though (138.199.67.30) as customer services/tech support told me they don't have an EU address to give out and there's "only one server - news.supernews.com". It seems that's not strictly true, and while they may use one URL they obviously employ routing to find your nearest server (EU/USA/Asia as per Giga's network).
Unfortunately in my case, for some reason, news.supernews.com resolves to the USA servers:
Code:
C:\Windows\System32>tracert news.supernews.com
Tracing route to news.supernews.com [216.168.3.30]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 9 ms 10 ms 7 ms cpc3-know11-2-0gw.know.cable.virginmedia.com [62.31.65.1]
2 11 ms 14 ms 7 ms osr02know-ge36.network.virginmedia.net [81.97.114.185]
3 9 ms 48 ms 9 ms man-bb-b-ae2-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.178.149]
4 13 ms 15 ms 15 ms tele-ic-3-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.163.70]
5 16 ms 18 ms 24 ms tge10-3.fr3.lon.llnw.net [87.248.208.141]
6 15 ms 24 ms 24 ms tge5-1.fr4.lon.llnw.net [69.28.171.138]
7 98 ms 108 ms 99 ms tge11-1.fr4.lga.llnw.net [69.28.172.149]
8 105 ms 98 ms 99 ms tge2-3.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.171.153]
9 90 ms 91 ms 92 ms giganews.tge11-3.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.157.38]
10 93 ms 95 ms 108 ms 216.168.3.14
11 90 ms 100 ms 93 ms news.supernews.com [216.168.3.30]
Trace complete.
But using the EU IP listed earlier in this thread directly gives much better results:
Code:
C:\Windows\System32>tracert 138.199.67.30
Tracing route to news.supernews.com [138.199.67.30] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 7 ms 7 ms 9 ms cpc3-know11-2-0gw.know.cable.virginmedia.com [62.31.65.1]
2 12 ms 9 ms 7 ms osr02know-ge36.network.virginmedia.net [81.97.114.185]
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms man-bb-b-ae2-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.178.149]
4 37 ms 16 ms 15 ms pop-bb-a-as4-0.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.162.85]
5 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms amst-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.175.6]
6 29 ms 23 ms 23 ms 216-196-108-117.ams.giganews.com [216.196.108.117]
7 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms news.supernews.com [138.199.67.30]
Trace complete.
Much better! I was considering jumping to Newshosting (who are part of Highwinds and already enjoying a peering relationship with VM) because of issues with the US Supernews server (latency, variable speeds). Now I can directly connect to their EU server it looks like I don't need to!
