Funny that I just noticed that while I was getting normal usenet speeds earlier this evening it has now shrunk to 2-3kbps. So I connected to a vpn and now I can download from the same usenet servers at several hundred kbps. Which suggests plus.net are throttling usenet.
Now I know they said they do this at peak times but this evening at least they seem to be rather overdoing it, certainly far more then earlier in the month. Perhaps their peak time problems are leading them to squash everything else out? Who knows. Its hard not to wonder if all the new fibre customers are sucking up the bandwidth.
