Usenet.plus.net still being heavily throttled

[#1]

I've just refreshed the groups list and found it slow - it appears to still be capped at 36kB/s. I then checked and found that the binary groups were still available.
I thought the binary groups were being removed and it would then not be throttled - what's going on (or not going on)?

[#2]

Quote from: jelv

I've just refreshed the groups list and found it slow - it appears to still be capped at 36kB/s. I then checked and found that the binary groups were still available. I thought the binary groups were being removed...

They are. We're lookign to switch them off at the start of next month.

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... and it would then not be throttled?

That should be sorted shortly after access to the binary groups has been revoked.

[#3]

Why has this been delayed?
On 20th July you posted:

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In 30 days time access to binary newsgroups using our news server will no longer be possible, however you will still be able to use our news server to access text-only discussion groups.

[#4]

There hasn't been a delay. The end of this month is when I arranged with Giganews to have the binary access disabled. I can't see Metronet customers complaining about having the service for a little longer than we told them they'd have it for tbh

[#5]

Binary access should now have been disabled and the per connection rate limit upped from 160kbps to 512kbps.

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