1mbit usenet speed tonight? (1am)

[zer0]

whats going on with usenet tonight? its now 1:30am and im gettting less than 150k with news.virginmedia.com (i just downloaded from http at full speed)

since 4pm iv downloaded 600mb and uploaded 30mb

[deakin]

I've also been getting slow speeds from virgins(highwinds) server for the past few months now. Gave up last night when i was getting 12kbps with 10 threads :rolleyes:

This happens ever now and then, check back again in a few days. Chances are it will be back to normal by then.

[zer0]

working fine now, must have been a test for the new upload throttle, but it wasnt announced

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Announcements/Upstream-P2P-Traffic-Management-Trial-1st-of-February/m-p/310789#M25

really annoying how they lump newsgroups in with torrents *grmbl*

i hate instant throttles

[Ignitionnet]

Clearly newsgroups are completely legitimate with no usage for copyright violation and no high bandwidth utilisation while torrents are dodgy and should be throttled ;)

[qasdfdsaq]

Y'know, I remember the days newsgroups were for... news