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Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 9:38 AM
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Appreciate it if someone could get the hammer out.
Regards
Rockradio
Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 9:47 AM
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Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 9:57 AM
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Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 11:47 AM
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Binary downloads are certainly being slowed down by the amount of Windows update traffic on the network, gold was over 3Gbps of traffic at 9am this morning, normally it's around 2 - 2.5Mbps at that time. Estimate is around 550Mbps of Windows update traffic. As a consequence non-interactive traffic like P2P and usenet will have been slowed down by the traffic prioritisation.
Enterprise Architect - Network & OSS
Plusnet Technology
Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 12:30 PM
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Quote from: dave Hi,
Binary downloads are certainly being slowed down by the amount of Windows update traffic on the network, gold was over 3Gbps of traffic at 9am this morning, normally it's around 2 - 2.5Mbps at that time. Estimate is around 550Mbps of Windows update traffic. As a consequence non-interactive traffic like P2P and usenet will have been slowed down by the traffic prioritisation.
Thanks to Chris and Dave for quick replies. Still slow as a donkey at 1230 15/08/07.
Just a thought. Would it be possible to give some priority to text only usenet. The problems always seems to be associated with binary downloads clogging up things and us text only users of usenet seem to loose out on our miniscule usage because of a lot of binary traffic.
Kind Regards
Rockradio
Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 12:59 PM
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Be interested to see if you see the same performance on the news server news.microsoft.com as that's prioritised as a text only server.
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Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 1:21 PM
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Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 3:04 PM
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5 min header download, same newsgroup from each server (except MS):
Easynews | ~44 kbits/s |
Giganews | ~42 kbits/s |
Plusnet | ~32 kbits/s |
Microsoft | ~600 kbits/s |
Windows update : ~5400 kbits/s over a period of 20 mins (new Vista install, downloading all updates) so I would say that it's not a local issue (busy exchange etc)
Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 4:25 PM
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Seems suspicious that it's worse than Easynews and Giganews though as they have a very low priority on the network as it is?
Could it perhaps be a problem Microsoft side?
Bob Pullen
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Re: Usenet at a standstill
15-08-2007 4:55 PM
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What ever you did. Thank you.
Rockradio
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15-08-2007 7:06 PM
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Re: Usenet at a standstill
16-08-2007 12:10 AM
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Aren't we supposed to go from peak to off-peak at midnight? It feels a bit like the other way around. As a result I now try and get downloads in before midnight if I can!
Re: Usenet at a standstill
16-08-2007 3:16 AM
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USENET (using external providers) between 9/10am and 4pm can be pitifuly slow like yesterday afternoon. After 4pm it's much faster - near line speed at times (6Mbps) and then between midnight and 1am it slows down again.
I'm guessing the slow down is due to a sudden increase in downloads - people scheduling downloads to start at midnight combined with the network management profile changes - everything seems ok after about 1am.
But why its better at peak-time versus 9am-4pm I've no idea.
Re: Usenet at a standstill
16-08-2007 7:45 AM
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It's probably because a lot of customers on Premier or Plus stop downloading at 4pm (as this is the start of peak time) and start again at midnight (the start of off-peak).
Certainly after 2am the network is much much quieter, and there's some nice spare capacity for downloading (this is when you tend to see Usenet downloading at line speed ;))
Re: Usenet at a standstill
16-08-2007 6:06 PM
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Quote from: dave Hi,
Binary downloads are certainly being slowed down by the amount of Windows update traffic on the network, gold was over 3Gbps of traffic at 9am this morning, normally it's around 2 - 2.5Mbps at that time. Estimate is around 550Mbps of Windows update traffic. As a consequence non-interactive traffic like P2P and usenet will have been slowed down by the traffic prioritisation.
Looks like we weren't the only ones affected by this.
Bob Pullen
Plusnet Product Team
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