Newsgroup problem in Glasgow

[dynamix]

Anyone in Glasgow or anywhere having problems with newsgroups today? I have 100mb but the speed is less than 100k/sec on both ports 443 and 563 and i haven't downloaded anything in the past couple of days so not like i should be getting throttled or anything, cheers.

[Milambar]

Newsgroups and torrents are managed 8am -> midnight, every day, regardless of how little or much you have downloaded. I am not sure how their managment is organized, but perhaps that is the reason you are getting abyssal speeds?

[deakin]

Newsgroups and torrents are managed 8am -> midnight, every day, regardless of how little or much you have downloaded

When did they change the times as it is advertised as 5pm-12pm(mon-fri) and 12pm-12am(weekends) see here.. http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html

[DABhand]

As far as I know it still is the old times deakin listed.

But it wouldn't surprise me if they did an 8am-Midnight trick just to claw back as much bandwith as possible.

[Milambar]

My bad then, I didn't check the websites because I couldnt find a link immediately to hand, so I worked from memory, and got it wrong. Although I don't think you really mean 5pm till 12pm, thats 5pm at night till noon the following day :P. I think you mean 5pm till 12am (midnight).