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Usenet Speed
14-08-2009 12:40 PM
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Here is today's figures from midnight to midday.
[tt]Start of hour Data Rate, kBps %Max
14/08/2009 00:00 932,133 KB 259 31
14/08/2009 01:00 2,944,515 KB 818 97
14/08/2009 02:00 2,981,817 KB 828 98
14/08/2009 03:00 3,034,992 KB 843 100
14/08/2009 04:00 2,984,403 KB 829 98
14/08/2009 05:00 2,984,463 KB 829 98
14/08/2009 06:00 2,983,514 KB 829 98
14/08/2009 07:00 2,957,469 KB 822 97
14/08/2009 08:00 2,967,635 KB 824 98
14/08/2009 09:00 2,167,851 KB 602 71
14/08/2009 10:00 664,920 KB 185 22
14/08/2009 11:00 489,602 KB 136 16[/tt]
After midday it's more difficult to do a table as the data rate is low enough that other uses of the PC (like RDPing to it to get the table) would skew the results a lot and make it look a lot better than it is. I don't have something that will just log usenet traffic.
At the moment, I should be getting 64kBps of throttled data - I'm averaging about 5kBps. Utterly Useless.
More will follow...
Re: Usenet Speed
14-08-2009 1:01 PM
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You are signed up to receive a maximum of 64kbps - or about 6KBytes/sec - in the daytime anyway
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Usenet Speed
14-08-2009 1:07 PM
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Paul
Edit: spoke too soon, speed is all over the place, one moment full speed, next almost down to zero then off up again
Re: Usenet Speed
14-08-2009 4:08 PM
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I am most certainly not signed up to receive a maximum of 64kbps at any time - the lowest throttle limit is 128kbps (16kBps) which is sometimes reached. 6kBps is way below the minimum I should ever get, yet is unfortunately above what I often see.
At this moment, I'm averaging about what I should at this time of day. I'm getting about 19kB (kilobytes!) ps out of a maximum of 164kbps=20.5kBps. That's good. I hope it lasts but it probably won't based on past observations.
Re: Usenet Speed
14-08-2009 4:32 PM
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At the moment I'm getting my expected throttled speed about 30kB/s
Re: Usenet Speed
14-08-2009 10:04 PM
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Well, it's just gone 10pm and I should be throttled to 256kbps=32kBps.
I'm averaging 0.3kBps (that's zero point 3) and that is useless as not a single part gets to come in before it times out.
Pathetic!
This is what it's like more often than not.
Effectively usenet is not available now, despite it being a core internet service.
Re: Usenet Speed
15-08-2009 12:48 AM
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Quote The change won't come into effect untill 22nd.
Is that your renewal date Paul mine renews on the 20th of the month so I'm wondering whether to do it now or not, I did get a usable connection this afternoon on BBYW3 so throttling doesn't come into effect till 4pm mind you I did have to swap gateways twice, also I beleive you have to stay on the one you swap to for a month is that correct?
Re: Usenet Speed
15-08-2009 8:15 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 12:12 PM
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Hour Start Data Rate, kBps %Max
17/08/2009 00:00 586,459 KB 163 19
17/08/2009 01:00 2,828,872 KB 786 93
17/08/2009 02:00 2,981,948 KB 828 98
17/08/2009 03:00 2,984,704 KB 829 98
17/08/2009 04:00 2,985,425 KB 829 98
17/08/2009 05:00 2,981,724 KB 828 98
17/08/2009 06:00 2,982,952 KB 829 98
17/08/2009 07:00 2,961,150 KB 823 98
17/08/2009 08:00 2,812,244 KB 781 93
17/08/2009 09:00 2,337,331 KB 649 77
17/08/2009 10:00 853,270 KB 237 28
17/08/2009 11:00 1,064,085 KB 296 35
As you can see, the first and last three of 'unthrottled' time are very low.
I'm not getting anywhere near the 64kBps throttle after midday - very erratic and averaging about 10 - 20kBps at the moment.
Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 12:35 PM
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The throttling issue and
The Contention issue where virtually everything is given priority over usenet.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 12:50 PM
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The problem during the day is that I often can't reach even those limits. The rate ends up low enough, especially in the evening when I, like many others, get home from work, that usenet is practically unusable. I can't even refresh the headers list because everything times out.
Usenet is a core internet service and having it effectively denied is simply unacceptable no matter who the provider or what service plan I am on.
Overnight I frequently don't get a good rate even when not throttled, as shown in my table above. Four of the twelve hours had a low rate.
Somewhere in PN's network, there is a problem either of bandwidth or of processing power. In either case, they don't have enough to support their users.
If it's caused by prioritising traffic, and during the day it might well be, then PN really need to look at their priorities because they are causing the usenet service to be unusable for a big part of the day. Usenet users are just as important as those who want to watch streaming television (why not just buy a TV???) or play Quake.
Overnight though, it's most likely a pure bandwidth/processing problem.
Edit: Just thought I would add that currently (12:52pm) I'm averaging 0.4kBps on usenet. I've just stopped it because I will just end up with file corruption. So once again usenet is unusable.
Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 3:59 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 4:35 PM
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[edit]I've got a slow 21CN connection - the gateway for this is currently under-loaded.
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Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 6:25 PM
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and the rotten apple core speeds on this chart are what you are getting
Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 6:34 PM
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