Slow usenet speed?

iviv · 29 Mar 2011 at 20:40

Over the last few days, I've noticed that my usenet speeds seem to have dropped significantly. Speedtest shows my download speed at 10Mb, which is what it should be. However, I was only getting about 100kb/s trying to download from the virgin media provided newsgroup.

I'm using grabit, 3 threads as Its apparently supposed to be set to, and it sits about 100kb/s. It used to max out my connection just fine, too, so something must have just happened.

Any way I can troubleshoot, try and find what's causing the problems?

SexyGreyFox · 30 Mar 2011 at 23:04

Try a different port

tom_e · 31 Mar 2011 at 00:51

What time of the day are you downloading as I know Virgin now throttle p2p and usenet traffic

SexyGreyFox · 31 Mar 2011 at 07:46

tom_e said:
What time of the day are you downloading as I know Virgin now throttle p2p and usenet traffic

I was throttled to death in the evening from 50 down to 2.5 but I changed my port number and getting full speeds now.
Somebody in the Virgin 50 meg thread said 'Everybody knew port 563 is being throttled'.
I didn't but I'm on 443 now with one server and 8080 with another.

Rainmaker · 31 Mar 2011 at 10:23

Unfortunately VM's free service (provided by Highwinds Media) is only accessible on port 119, with no SSL. It does sound as though you're being throttled.

OP, get yourself a decent paid-for service (Astraweb is cheap if you google for the $11 Kleverig deal) and connect to the SSL server over port 443. You should be fine then. On a side note, 3 connections is a bit low even for a 10Mb connection. Try 5.

mfalaura · 12 May 2011 at 09:13

Rainmaker said:
Unfortunately VM's free service (provided by Highwinds Media) is only accessible on port 119, with no SSL. It does sound as though you're being throttled.

OP, get yourself a decent paid-for service (Astraweb is cheap if you google for the $11 Kleverig deal) and connect to the SSL server over port 443. You should be fine then. On a side note, 3 connections is a bit low even for a 10Mb connection. Try 5.

Some providers can have up to 60 connections....it's a good manner to download quickly !

Dist · 12 May 2011 at 10:54

mfalaura said:
Some providers can have up to 60 connections....it's a good manner to download quickly !

There is rarely a need for that many connections. Most providers who offer that many connections just do it to show off and try and out do their competitors.

PistolPete · 13 May 2011 at 10:36

I found on 20Mb that I needed nearly 20 thread to max the connection out.
On 50Mb, it only seems to need 8 to max out.

DJMK4 · 13 May 2011 at 10:45

I don't need anywhere near that many connections or threads to max out my my download, I think Astraweb offer 20 connections, however 10 or 12 will be fine for me

Could probably easily get away with less than that to be honest.