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Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 6:43 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 7:09 PM
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Quote still on the limited plan - BBYW3
But your not downloading 20+Gb a day
Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 8:15 PM
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Not with this connection.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Usenet Speed
17-08-2009 8:23 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
18-08-2009 2:19 PM
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Quote from: pierre_pierre I am only allowed 10Gb a month during the day, and go to sleep at night
Yeah, I go to sleep at night as well, or at least sometimes - that's why I can't play the gateway lottery until I get a good connection. I'm snoring. I just leave the thing set up ready for the night/morning 12 hours.
Trouble is, it's getting increasingly harder to set things up because usenet is unusable in the evening, when I'm here to do it. All I need is to get the headers in my groups and I generally can't even do that much.
It's particularly irritating because, when I was on the 40GB monthly limit BBYW?, with 8 hours unmetered, I got reasonable speed at any time of day. I could refresh the headers and set things up for my scheduler to kick in at midnight for the heavy stuff. I would then get 8 hours of line speed downloads. Now, on a package that looks much better for me on paper (like I say, I can easily live with the throttle limits in the afternoon/evening, if I can get that high), it's actually often worse to the point of making it impractical for me to use.
Anyway, here's this morning's table. I've included a few extra hours this time as well, to show the rates before and after the unthrottled period. Remember that the server also does other things (like being an exchange server) so the incoming data isn't just usenet. I can only measure total data. My table therefore makes things look better than they are, particularly when the throttle kicks in and usenet data starts grinding to a halt. That's why there's not much point me showing the whole 24 hour period, until I get a logger that will just measure traffic for one application. I'll do that if I get time to find one.
As you can see, there are still (as always!) plenty or periods where I get nowhere near the rate I should.
The rate is very erratic when it starts dropping. One minute I will be getting a usable amount of data, the next - nothing. Threads start timing out and when I'm downloading headers, that means I have to start again - if I'm sat there watching that is, which I shouldn't have to any more than I should have to continually play the gateway lottery to get a usable connection. If I'm downloading bodies, the continually dieing threads eventually cause sporadic file corruption. So I have to download those files again.
At the moment the rate is very erratic, going from zero to a few kBps. Not reaching anywhere near the low, throttled limit.
Re: Usenet Speed
19-08-2009 4:40 PM
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Be nice if it lasts...
yesterday evening was disastrous though. I again had to stop my newsreader altogether because of the file corruption issue when it's so slow. I scheduled it to restart at midnight, like the good old days, hence the low readings from 10pm to midnight.
Re: Usenet Speed
19-08-2009 5:38 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Usenet Speed
19-08-2009 5:55 PM
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To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: Usenet Speed
19-08-2009 6:05 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
19-08-2009 6:28 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
19-08-2009 6:56 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
20-08-2009 9:04 PM
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From 9pm to 11pm was completely unusable, and 11-12am was ridiculous! I mean, 3% of what I should have got??? Come on PN!
This afternoon and evening have been a none-starter. 2kBps for several hours... what a waste of time!
I'm not happy.
I invite comments from PN folks as to what they think of this pathetically low data rate...
Re: Usenet Speed
20-08-2009 9:13 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
20-08-2009 10:48 PM
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Re: Usenet Speed
20-08-2009 11:06 PM
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One thing to point out is that the speeds on the expected speeds pages are maximums, and you will see lower speeds if the network is particularly busy.
Does swapping gateway make much difference?
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