what is happening with Newsgroups

fatbloke · 16-02-2008, 23:12

I am using newsgroups tonight on a 20 meg connection but I am only getting about 1.20 MB/s which is about half what I normally get..
I don't think I am capped as I have only been downloading since 21.15 tonight.
Is anyone else having problems with giganews or is it Virgin playing tricks on me?

|Kippa| · 16-02-2008, 23:31

I am on Astraweb and can download 20mbit full rate. I've had no problems on my connection tonight.

PAYNEARDO · 17-02-2008, 09:50

I have the same problem but its also been slow browsing as well, prob just VM. Haven;t checked it yet but may be back up to 20MB now

greeninferno · 17-02-2008, 12:06

I was seeing this also using news.blueyonnder.co.uk

This was posted in virginmedia.announce.internet on text.news.virginmedia.com

Please find details below of this service affecting issue.

Raised : 16 Feb, 2008 15:12
Name : Les Watkinson, Outage Surveillence Team
Ticket Number : 650792
Estimated Resolution : 4 Hours
Status : Closed
Priority : P1
Services Affected: Broadband Internet

Description :
Some customers may be experiencing issues with
slow speeds and routing issues when connecting to
various services including Giganews.

Customers may also be experiencing packet loss due
to connection issues.

Our engineers are currently investigating this
issue.

Virgin Media would like to apologise for any
inconvenience that this issue may cause.

Virgin Media Technical Support

Updates:
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Date : 16 Feb, 2008 15:13
Name : Les Watkinson
Estimated Resolution : 4 Hours
Status : Closed

Description :
This issue has now been resolved.

It was caused by congestion on our network.

Our engineers have investigated this issue and
have advised us that services are now working
normally.

Virgin Media would like to apologise for any
inconvenience that this issue may have caused.

Virgin Media Technical Support

PAYNEARDO · 17-02-2008, 16:16

still only getting between 5 & 8 Mbps in Cleethorpes

not even a steady speed its up & down more than ....

Ermintrude · 17-02-2008, 16:42

You all seem to be having more luck than me, I've just tried a speedtest using Giganews tester and I'm getting the dizzy speed of 1kbps, yes thats right 1kbps! I've had pigeons that can get back from France quicker than that. The whole experience for the last few days can only be described as abysmal!

Do I get a prize for the slowest connection ever recorded?

From clicking this thread to reading the comments above and posting this reply has taken 25 minutes so far, and its not posted yet. Ho hum thats technology for you!

TehTech · 17-02-2008, 16:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by greeninferno

Updates:
--------

Date : 16 Feb, 2008 15:13
Name : Les Watkinson
Estimated Resolution : 4 Hours
Status : Closed

Description :
This issue has now been resolved.

It was caused by congestion on our network.

Our engineers have investigated this issue and
have advised us that services are now working
normally.

Virgin Media would like to apologise for any
inconvenience that this issue may have caused.

Virgin Media Technical Support

I was under the impression that all these UBR upgrades would stop this congestion, or it that just propaganda on VM's part to try gain the trust of its subscribers?

Ermintrude · 17-02-2008, 17:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ermintrude

You all seem to be having more luck than me, I've just tried a speedtest using Giganews tester and I'm getting the dizzy speed of 1kbps, yes thats right 1kbps! I've had pigeons that can get back from France quicker than that. The whole experience for the last few days can only be described as abysmal!

Do I get a prize for the slowest connection ever recorded?

From clicking this thread to reading the comments above and posting this reply has taken 25 minutes so far, and its not posted yet. Ho hum thats technology for you!

Since posting this its all gone back to normal. or what has passed for normal lately, getting 500kbps, happens every day around 5.00 pm, weird or what?

Pea-Pod · 17-02-2008, 17:27

Hi Ermintrude - I've been having the same problem. It seems back to normal now though. Probably just a weekend 'thing'.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ermintrude

I've just tried a speedtest using Giganews tester and I'm getting the dizzy speed of 1kbps, yes thats right 1kbps!

Do I get a prize for the slowest connection ever recorded?

Definately! I thought mine was bad at 82kbps.

Daffy Duck · 17-02-2008, 17:46

If you're using the Blueyonder server you could try their new binary server which is in beta

news.virginmedia.com

It was originally set to only allow 5 connections but that's been upped now....i'm using 7.
It's also supposed to have increased retention to 7 days as well.

It is a beta tho so i would expect there's a high probability of some problems along the line.,in fact there's already been some but they've not affected me.....so far.

astra_lestat · 17-02-2008, 18:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatbloke

I am using newsgroups tonight on a 20 meg connection but I am only getting about 1.20 MB/s which is about half what I normally get..
I don't think I am capped as I have only been downloading since 21.15 tonight.
Is anyone else having problems with giganews or is it Virgin playing tricks on me?

The same problem for the last 3-4 days.
20M line - maximum 1.2kbps down from astraweb.

Very annoying.

bliss · 17-02-2008, 23:58

Getting an amazing 74kb/s from usenet-news. Are VM throttling? Because it would seem as though they are.

Berealwith · 18-02-2008, 06:32

Same here i have noticed a drop to from 2.0 to 1.2 ............... theres somethng that smells of fish ?

astra_lestat · 18-02-2008, 19:18

Today it doesn't even reach 1M....

18-02-2008, 19:23

Can't even establish a connection here.