Usenet on upc

bonkers

Do they throttle and if so whats the workaround..

lynchie

Normally I'd say no, but since Saturday I cant get more than 220KB to astraweb. Have tried it on 3 different UPC connections and all are the same.

UDP

I have no problem using astraweb. Even on the phone over wifi I am getting over 2500KB/s. Laptop runs at about 3500KB/s.

PogMoThoin

I notice with Eircom, I get faster speeds using SSL and port 443 than I do on the default port 119

UDP

PogMoThoin wrote: »

I notice with Eircom, I get faster speeds using SSL and port 443 than I do on the default port 119

Yes, I am using port 443 too for astraweb so maybe that is the difference i.e. that they cannot distinguish the usenet traffic from any other encrypted traffic.

ArthurG

Oops sorry being silly...... ignore

Slaanesh

I normally get 18MB/sec, getting less than 1 now. Something fishy considering the UPC speedtest gives full speed.

Smyth

Yep. Same here. Astraweb coming in at 800KB on a 120mb connection.

kaisersose77

There is another thread about this from a day or two ago. I changed to newsdemon and am getting full speed so i'd say its an astraweb issue i think. It goes full speed at night and gets throttled during the day with astraweb. Had a similar issue with them a few months ago.

Slaanesh

It had been steaming along for me for a few weeks but the last week seems to have gotten dog slow. Can't tell if it's UPC or Astraweb. Perhaps UPC are specifically throttling astraweb and all other will follow? Ugh, who know.

j4vier

astraweb seems back to normal speeds now on upc 120 mb

Smyth

I've tried using 2 different providers on ssl and non-ssl, 563 and 443.

It goes up to max speed for 2 or 3 seconds and slowly degrades to 0kb/s.

Wired. 120mb. Usenet and Newsdemon. Both the same.



Must be UPC.

bonkers

tweaknews wasn't working for me past 600kbs and im on 100mb line
was getting 2.5mb on a 25mb line in canada last week

bonkers

anyone had any joy fixing this

Slaanesh

Started working fine again for me.

bonkers wrote: »

anyone had any joy fixing this

omahaid

I've been using Easynews which is a part of Highwinds and I haven't noticed any speed difference of late, none at all.

StaticNoise

T*w*e*a*knews to working perfectly this direction, and I'm easily hitting 9.5MB/s here on a 120Mb line.

Sir Oxman

StaticNoise wrote: »

T*w*e*a*knews to working perfectly this direction, and I'm easily hitting 9.5MB/s here on a 120Mb line.

Same.

bonkers

perhaps my problem is NewsgroupDirect or my synology 212j

StaticNoise

I'm getting far less from them. They are your problem.

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