100M : Giganews!!!!!

[andip1967]

Hi

Last couple of days my usenet has gone from outstanding speed to OMG crapiola. I am using Giganews, SSL port. I am sure it's being throttled!!

Anyone shed any light?

Thanks

[Kymmy]

Unless it's recently changed VM has throttled Usenet and p2p for some time (only peak and weekends) It's separate from ttheir traffic management .

Try an alternate port as some get past it.

[SnoopZ]

On Supernews i use port SSL 443 and last time i checked i didn't lose any speed, hopefully that hasn't changed.

[andip1967]

Tried 443 and still the same!!

[SnoopZ]

Is your regular download speed still ok on speedtest.net?

[Kymmy]

I use port 443 on astraweb and get 200+Mbps on 20 connection. If it's older stuff most Usenet providers prioritise newer stuff so older stuff tends to drop to about 1/4 to 1/2 speed

[andip1967]

Speed test is fine thanks, getting what I should be.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by andip1967

Speed test is fine thanks, getting what I should be.

Which doesn't tell you anything about the link between you and giganews.. Try a trace to the servers as perhaps maybe the routing is being temp diverted due to a problem.

[SnoopZ]

Try downloading really new content as Kymmy suggests to see if that makes a difference.

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Maxing out my connection downloading on supernews on port 443 with my usual 20 connections which uses the Giganews backbone.

[SgtDK]

You're not alone with this problem, I have been having the same problem for about a week now getting about 10-20mb on a 200mb connection, while speed everywhere else is fine.

This also seems to only be problem with Giganews/Supernews as a few other people here are also having the same problem.

Originally Posted by Kymmy

I use port 443 on astraweb and get 200+Mbps on 20 connection. If it's older stuff most Usenet providers prioritise newer stuff so older stuff tends to drop to about 1/4 to 1/2 speed

I use Astraweb as a back up and haven't had any problems, this is a Supernews/Giganews centered problem.

[General Maximus]

looks like it is back to normal now but I love it how VM just seem to ignore posts for 3 days. They must sit there with their fingers crossed saying "please let it fix itself".

[23prince]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Try downloading really new content as Kymmy suggests to see if that makes a difference.

---------- Post added at 16:24 ---------- Previous post was at 16:20 ----------

Maxing out my connection downloading on supernews on port 443 with my usual 20 connections which uses the Giganews backbone.

I've always gone with supernews. I found giganews too expensive and the stuff you get with it you can get for free elsewhere.

[andip1967]

Whoop dee doo, speeds back to normal, mmmmmmm????

[Lee]

I noticed similar issues with Supernews recently on the EU servers. When I switched to the US servers, speed was fine.

[Kushan]

Not had any problem with supernews.