03-11-2010, 20:21
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by Sigma
If you use SSL does it get round the traffic shaping? Comments I've read seem to suggest that that's the case.
Why couldn't they just leave the system as it is? I thought that the traffic management was there to deal with the "5%" of people downloading/uploading large amounts. Now my connection is being crippled with traffic shaping as well as traffic management and I'm losing anywhere from 60% to 95% of my connection speed for up to 12 hours a day. I'm not buying the "it's not financially viable not to have it" thing at all, considering Virgin Media's profits are on the up.
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Changing my Astraweb to SSL has fixed the problem for the time being.
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03-11-2010, 21:15
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Re: giganews (usenet)
Without wanting to offend someone, but what exactly is Giganews used for ?
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03-11-2010, 21:21
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Re: giganews (usenet)
How long till they restrict em all tho???
Lucky i only have 1 month left on my contract 50mb btw... if it starts getting bad on all ports, think i am just gonna downgrade to 20mb and use vpn as its difficult to get full speeds of vpn with 50mb...
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03-11-2010, 21:52
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by vmfriend
Without wanting to offend someone, but what exactly is Giganews used for ?
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In simple terms it is a newsgroups provider where you pay a small monthly fee to get access to newsgroups where you can simply download whatever is on their servers.
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03-11-2010, 23:53
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by keepitretro
How long till they restrict em all tho???
Lucky i only have 1 month left on my contract 50mb btw... if it starts getting bad on all ports, think i am just gonna downgrade to 20mb and use vpn as its difficult to get full speeds of vpn with 50mb...
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http://vpnuk.net/shared-ip.html they provide up to 100mb
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04-11-2010, 06:29
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Re: giganews (usenet)
Not sure they would be ok with usenet looking at there T&C.
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04-11-2010, 07:13
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23
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Thats looks ok, For £5.00 might give it a try 
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04-11-2010, 07:33
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by keepitretro
How long till they restrict em all tho???
Lucky i only have 1 month left on my contract 50mb btw... if it starts getting bad on all ports, think i am just gonna downgrade to 20mb and use vpn as its difficult to get full speeds of vpn with 50mb...
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I'm on the 50mb and using the VPN via giganews. No problems here.
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04-11-2010, 08:41
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Re: giganews (usenet)
What speeds do you get via giganews vpn amst
erdam server?
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04-11-2010, 09:01
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Re: giganews (usenet)
I was getting between 300k and 500k/sec last night. I have SSL switched on. Maybe I need to try moving port...
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04-11-2010, 11:39
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by keepitretro
What speeds do you get via giganews vpn amst
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5.1MBs usually. I haven't tried any other server yet but I may give the eastern USA one a go.
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04-11-2010, 18:41
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
In simple terms it is a newsgroups provider where you pay a small monthly fee to get access to newsgroups where you can simply download whatever is on their servers.
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So what could possibly be on their servers that would warrant someone wanting to pay for the privilege of doing so and why would VM want to restrict speed to such servers ?
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04-11-2010, 18:46
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by vmfriend
So what could possibly be on their servers that would warrant someone wanting to pay for the privilege of doing so and why would VM want to restrict speed to such servers ?
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Im sure you can guess what the majority of content on there is, Although newsgroups where not designed for it and have been around since before the web as we know it. However I believe the reason most people are complaining is because of how badly the system has been implemented.
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04-11-2010, 19:07
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Re: giganews (usenet)
Incidentally, I just got an email from Giganews saying all of their accounts now offer ssl
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04-11-2010, 19:33
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Re: giganews (usenet)
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Originally Posted by Jayster
Im sure you can guess what the majority of content on there is, Although newsgroups where not designed for it and have been around since before the web as we know it. However I believe the reason most people are complaining is because of how badly the system has been implemented.
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Ok, if i guessed 'copyrighted material' would i be correct, why do people talk in riddles, why dont they just say i am trying to downloand <insert copyrighted material here> but VM are managing my connection so i can't download it quick enough ?
I find it a bit odd that someone would pay to download copyrighted material ?
As a percentage then, and honestly i am genuinely interested, what proportion is legit and what isn't ?
Sorry I am hijacking the thread, I will stop, this has probably all been discussed before.
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