Cable Forum - View Single Post - 50M Pitifully slow newsgroup speeds during the evening

**Kymmy** · 19-01-2012, 07:44

Perhaps 25% of the pipe isn't a lot to spread round to all the students especially if you're in the main student areas of Rusholme, Withington, fallowfield..etc.. where there are a lot of users in each house so tend to have 50/100Mb with multiple people downloading.

It doesn't mean you'll get 12.5Mb but as you've already specified your area is over subscribed and as the over subscription will mainly be NNTP/P2P traffic it means that you'll all end up with minimal speed.

Programs like newsbin (and others) have schedulers built into them these days.. set your downloads to start at 2am..

19-01-2012, 07:44	#2
Kymmy Cable Forum Team Join Date: Dec 2007 Age: 44 Posts: 17,456	Re: Pitifully slow newsgroup speeds during the evening Perhaps 25% of the pipe isn't a lot to spread round to all the students especially if you're in the main student areas of Rusholme, Withington, fallowfield..etc.. where there are a lot of users in each house so tend to have 50/100Mb with multiple people downloading. It doesn't mean you'll get 12.5Mb but as you've already specified your area is over subscribed and as the over subscription will mainly be NNTP/P2P traffic it means that you'll all end up with minimal speed. Programs like newsbin (and others) have schedulers built into them these days.. set your downloads to start at 2am.. __________________ *A subscriber to the KISS method of life*..