Time to change? Astraweb stupidly slow...

speeduk · 25 Mar 2012 at 19:59

Yesterday from approx 5pm and today from same time astraweb has slowed to a crawl. I'm with ADSL24 LLU connected at 17108 kbps and normally max out at 1.7mb's.

This weekend from 5pm onwards my speeds drop to 150kb's - but a seperate speed test gives 1.5mb's.

Is my ISP now throttling usenet or is it astraweb? I'm paying for unlimited unthrottled internet so i'm hoping its astraweb.

Nick1881 · 25 Mar 2012 at 20:44

It's pretty much maxing my 50mb.

Try a different server or port.

speeduk · 25 Mar 2012 at 20:46

Nick1881 said:
It's pretty much maxing my 50mb.

Try a different server or port.

I tried different servers and ports - didnt change a thing.

I just tried newsdemon and that works perfectly so I cancelled astraweb.

Dist · 25 Mar 2012 at 20:57

Strange, my astraweb service is working perfectly fine.

KIA · 26 Mar 2012 at 12:08

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18229938&page=21

DJMK4 · 26 Mar 2012 at 12:09

OK for me

sidethink · 26 Mar 2012 at 14:58

Astraweb's EU SSL server timed out on me a few times yesterday. Their US SSL server was fine and SABNZBD switched over automatically for me.

I've seen it do this a few times but since I can use both servers and SAB can flip between the two, I rarely notice unless I can be bothered to read the error logs.