Newsgroups Traffic Shaping

[cadmus]

This is getting silly

I am on the max adsl2 package and have done a speed test on speedtest.net and I am getting 6 Mbps so not too bad for a Sunday evening.  I am currently downloading from newsgroups and I am being shaped down to less than 0.5Mbps.   

What the hell am I paying 30 quid a month for? 

I know my line is fine and if I download after 2300 speed goes to 10 Mbps, I hate being trapped with this rubbish overpriced ISP!!

[cadmus]

Sundays are the worse for traffic shaping

I am getting around 250 kbps from Newsgroups and look at speed test results




I can understand some shaping required but this is crazy!!!

Any Karoo staff care to explain?   Even if I got the quarter of that bandwidth for newsgroups I would be happy

[gazfc]

i'm getting a massive 8kbps at the min

[cadmus]

Good speed result but only getting half a meg on Newsgroups at the moment,  not even 1/8 of my available bandwidth!!

Anyone from KC want to comment?

[cadmus]

wow 20k now

[gibbo2008]

i get 0.5 every night and day , best time is 7am till 3am karoo need to leave and another isp come take over

[cadmus]

So what's the difference between and Saturday and Sunday evening?   I am getting 3 Mbps at the momement on Usenet but come tomorrow evening at the same time I wont be able to get 0.5.

Surely weekend evening traffic is the same on both days?

[Mardoxx]

20kB/s is ample for text posts.
Instead of getting your linux distros from usenet, try getting them via FTP or HTTP.
That IS what you're using them for, isn't it...

[Dylan]

20kB/s is ample for text posts.
Instead of getting your linux distros from usenet, try getting them via FTP or HTTP.
That IS what you're using them for, isn't it...

Because some smaller distros don't have much bandwidth available to host FTP or HTTP sources for download. They ask people to download via bittorent or usenet to save them money as a common courtesy.

Dyls