Newshosting / Newsleecher speeds unbearable with 4mb Virgin

[simosimo]

My speeds recently have been awful. I sometimes get my usual speed of 450-500kbs, but recently, most of my downloads have been inbetween 0kbs to 100kbs...it'll do that for a few minutes, then for about 10 seconds i'll get my speed, then slow again, it keeps fluctuating.

I dunno who's problem this is, either Virgins, Newshosting or Newsleechers. Either way i'm paying for Virgin who've already chopped speeds, and newshosting/ newsleecher is playing around and i'm paying 8 quid a month for that too. Shambles!

Might aswell go back to torrents.....

Help?

[Web-Junkie]

Do a traceroute to your providers and see if there is any bad pings and e-mail your news provider/s and ask them what's wrong! I use Astraweb and have no problems on a 4mb connection.

[nemesis01]

Doubt it's Newsleecher, I use it all the time and have no problems. More likely it's Newshosting, I use Giganews personally and never have any problems with the speed from them.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by nemesis01

Doubt it's Newsleecher, I use it all the time and have no problems. More likely it's Newshosting, I use Giganews personally and never have any problems with the speed from them.

I use Giganews as well, Newshosting are complete and utter crap even when you use there European server.

[rossco555]

.If you can, create your download folder on a drive that is different to your Newsleecher install. I recently moved to Giganews and the download was so quick, the HDD was sruggling to keep up. Suggest you check out the Newsleecher forum, as loads of tips on there

[simosimo]

Originally Posted by Sirius

I use Giganews as well, Newshosting are complete and utter crap even when you use there European server.

How much is giganews a month?

I pay 8ish quid for mine, unlimited downloads too

[rossco555]

Its about six & a half quid per month for 25gb limit, It automatically rolls over if I go over the limit, but you get 10 conns and the ability to suspend the account if you go on your hols.

It ain't the cheapest...been there with Maximum Usenet.... but it just the best !

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The link is here.....I use the Silver service..


https://secure.giganews.com/signup/

ps You can trial it for three days and d/l 10gb..if you don't like it...cancel

[Sedan34]

Originally Posted by simosimo

My speeds recently have been awful. I sometimes get my usual speed of 450-500kbs, but recently, most of my downloads have been inbetween 0kbs to 100kbs...it'll do that for a few minutes, then for about 10 seconds i'll get my speed, then slow again, it keeps fluctuating.

I dunno who's problem this is, either Virgins, Newshosting or Newsleechers. Either way i'm paying for Virgin who've already chopped speeds, and newshosting/ newsleecher is playing around and i'm paying 8 quid a month for that too. Shambles!

Might aswell go back to torrents.....

Help?

My Newshosting account been very slow at times recently tried wifes Giganews everything ok, will change to Giganews if no improvement soon.

[simosimo]

I'm on the giga-news 3 day trial. Things are better, I got full download speed for once download, now i'm trying another and im getting flucs between 175-300ish.

Still not perfect, but better than 0kbs!

I've cancelled my account with newshosting, I'll most likely sub with giganews once my newshosting account runs dry

[rossco555]

Glad things are better.....However downloading between 4pm and midnight on Virgin is never plain sailing.

ps Read on another thread that 4meg being updated to 10meg during November, so that will help no doubt.

[alferret]

I use newshosting, 14 slots from US server nearly always 480+ When there is a problem from their end I open up another 14 slots on the Euro server and run them simultaneously 28 slots open.

ATM you can get away with 14 slots on the servers any more than this and you start to get restricted, well according to my m8, he was the one who mentioned to me to use 14 instead of 8.

[Midnight Tboy]

I am on the 4mb line. I have used newshosting without problems for nearly 2 years with speed always around the 475k/sec mark with rare exception apart from the odd hiccup

However about 2 or 3 days ago the speed dropped and keeps bouncing like the others between about 60-120k.

I contacted newshosting who suggested run the trace route, and then to try some of the other ports. I tried port 9000 first instead of the usual 119 then hey presto I was getting 475k again no problem.

I contacted again saying it seems to be resolved, and he said that sometimes the isps can start trying to cap or block certain ports.

Now I've been out quite frequently the last few days so havent had much chance to sit and monitor, however the next morning when got back from halloween party, lo and behold I was getting the 60-120k again and by looks of it had been for majority of overnight.

I then changed to 7000 and again back to 480

Now this morning I got up, and yet again its back to slow speed. bumped it back to port 9000 and I'm on 480k.

Do you think NTL/Virgin are messing with us to deliberately p**s us off constantly blocking whatever port we're receiving a lot of traffic on each night for us heavy users?

just to add, all other downloading, ie web page, ftp and speed test sites all give the full speed at same time as the newsgroup ports are being a problem

[Richy99]

its isnt a VM issue with the ports its a newshosting issue

[Midnight Tboy]

I hope that is the case. I'll be hating having to play cat and mouse with VM port changing each night if they did start that to keep my speed. It is odd though as I've never previously had this problem, so naturally worry kicks in especially with the way things always seem to be going t**s up since the virgin rebranding regarding STM

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and just as I typed that using port 7000 it slowed down again (after internet briefly cut off for a cpl of minutes - seems to cut out once in while since I use USB now instead of ethernet connection since new pc only has the 1 other network port which is in use) - tried 9000 stil slow, this time using 23 and all is well again. The cutout I'm sure is probably random as normal, but more to make me wonder

[Richy99]

other people around the world have to do it so it isnt a VM issue, its a peering issue newshosting has, the higher ports route thru different backbone providers to newshosting