50M Newsgroups unusable even at 1am!

narco220 · 20-01-2012, 01:02

Here I am on a 50mb connection at 1:20am downloading via newsgroups and I can't even get a speed above 6kB/s!

Are virgin blocking newgroups now? because I just tried a torrent and im getting decent speeds with them,

I've also tried both ports 563 and 443 with the same resault.

I'm wondering if virgin have started limiting the amount we can download from newsgroups per month?

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Looks like its supernews thats the problem on both eu and us servers as I just tried another provider and the speeds are good.

Looks like I need to cancel my supernews sub

keepitretro · 20-01-2012, 06:42

I know they were messing with port 443 on astraweb a few months ago, but it seems to have stopped now.

What's next?

I don't however beleive we are moving towards usage caps and comcast style shaping as (ingnition suggests), because if they did this alot of the big users 100mb and 50mb customers would go elsewhere, Then whats the point in faster speeds if you can't use them....

Does not make business sense.

Chrysalis · 20-01-2012, 07:44

VM dont throttle at that hour, probably congestion somewhere.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by keepitretro

I know they were messing with port 443 on astraweb a few months ago, but it seems to have stopped now.

What's next?

I don't however beleive we are moving towards usage caps and comcast style shaping as (ingnition suggests), because if they did this alot of the big users 100mb and 50mb customers would go elsewhere, Then whats the point in faster speeds if you can't use them....

Does not make business sense.

Ignition didnt say usage caps.

Comcast style shaping in all likelyhood will make newsgroups faster as it wont be protocol based.

However I am wondering if VM are going to bail out of the comcast style shaping, news has gone quiet on it and in my view it works for comcast because they allocate more capacity per customer and also have usage caps, VM's implementation would clearly be more draconian in the bad areas which may cause excessive complaints.

keepitretro · 20-01-2012, 08:45

While i never see speeds less than 12.4 mbps on newsgroups any time of the day/night, and have finally got my superhub nice and stable i can't comment on slow speeds, but can understand why peeps get annoyed...

narco220 · 20-01-2012, 11:53

Well My 'decent' speed didn't last (about 30mins) in the early hours of this morning and just tried it again (11:30am) speed still isn't great I cannot Get over 400kB/s.

Virgin must be capping newsgroups 24 hours a day and its really anoying

Heres a few tests I did over the past 24hours:

starbug · 20-01-2012, 16:19

I am having the exact same problem at the moment with giganews.

My web browsing experience considering i am on 50mb is pathetic, download speeds over any protocol including http is crap but newsgroups usually over port 443 (ssl) were fine and even that sucks now.

This just isnt acceptable considering how much money i pay them for this ***** service, but dont worry any speedtest sites you go on tell you its fine

VM are full of **** and i'm sick to death of the constant nonsense with their service in this area. ill be cancelling when i get home tomorrow, i already have a BT phone socket in the house so looks like ADSL it is.

mart1n · 21-01-2012, 21:02

Over the last few days the Giganews speed test has been showing dialup rates, it's now back to going off scale at 10Mbps+.

I'm now seeing 32Mbits/s download, not bad for 10pm.

SnoopZ · 21-01-2012, 21:21

No problems on Supernews.

essjay · 21-01-2012, 21:23

Mines crap tonight getting 6Mbits/s on the 100, usually get around 94 I'm also on Giganews

keepitretro · 21-01-2012, 21:38

I also am getting about 6mb!

On astraweb regardless of what port, settings, or server, i try!!!

maybe a routing issue of some kind??

nstokes · 22-01-2012, 09:26

no iusses with mith using newshosting, im on 50 meg

Horizon · 22-01-2012, 09:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by keepitretro

I also am getting about 6mb!

On astraweb regardless of what port, settings, or server, i try!!!

maybe a routing issue of some kind??

But it seems a very targeted "routing" issue...