General : Usenet Slow

[GrimUpNorth]

Anyone else noticed VMs news server has been a bit slow the last couple of days? Normally can max connection but now struggle to get above 30Mb.

Interestingly, if I point my reader directly to Highwinds it drops to about 15-20Mb.

No other real problems as test below shows, which isn't bad for a wireless connection at this time in the evening.



Cheers

Grim

[Coffeeguy]

I can pull 100Mb from Astraweb but news.virginmedia.com seems to be limiting be to 50Mb :/

I thought the Blueyonder news server was nuked and that was the end of it? I know Blueyonder had terrible retention (3 days) and a tonne of problems with Highwinds. Any idea who VM have oursourced to now and what their retention is?

[Jayster]

Originally Posted by Coffeeguy

I can pull 100Mb from Astraweb but news.virginmedia.com seems to be limiting be to 50Mb :/

I thought the Blueyonder news server was nuked and that was the end of it? I know Blueyonder had terrible retention (3 days) and a tonne of problems with Highwinds. Any idea who VM have oursourced to now and what their retention is?

I can get 12.5MB/s from news.virginmedia.com however atleast with the file I used I required lots of connections.

I believe Virgin still outsource to Highwinds and retention is now 30 days.

[nemesis01]

Originally Posted by Jayster

I can get 12.5MB/s from news.virginmedia.com however atleast with the file I used I required lots of connections.

Same for me, I use 20 connections and it is constant speed, no drops.

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by nemesis01

Same for me, I use 20 connections and it is constant speed, no drops.

I've used 32 connections for as long as I can remember, will have a go with 20.

I wonder if it's just a local routing issue or if VM have implemented traffic shaping. Interestingly, as VM say they 'manage' usenet and P2P, I did a quick P2P test and maxed the connection no problem. Does the policy apply equaly to both usenet and P2P or can it throttle one protocol more then the other?

I do remember there was a similar issue with slow speeds to VMs news server some 12 months ago, so I wonder if I'm experiencing something similar.

Cheers

Grim

[Zanny]

Originally Posted by Jayster

I can get 12.5MB/s from news.virginmedia.com however atleast with the file I used I required lots of connections.

I believe Virgin still outsource to Highwinds and retention is now 30 days.

same here 12.5mb/s, after midnight it returns to normal, id suspect extreme shaping during daytime/evening
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EDIT: up to 18 now, so im going with shaping

[General Maximus]

funnily enough I am using it now and it is dead slow. Normally the groups update around 2mb/sec but atm it is struggling to about above 500k. It will be interesting to see what speed I get once I get some files going.

EDIT: Now 02:44 and I cant get more than 5mb/sec and I defo didnt download anything earlier to warrent being stm'd

[olisun]

It's traffic shaping and I was getting 800KB speeds yesterday which reverted back to full speeds after midnight...