Re: Usenet unusable on Plusnet

fred wrote in
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> In article <434983f8$0$15046$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Martin Underwood <news@xxxxxxx> writes
>> Steve wrote in
>> p0qik1hhrngdu9n2ph4uos2r59jf78rg1u@xxxxxxx:
>>
>>> It's just taken me over 2 minutes to pull 550 headers off Plusnet's
>>> newsserver on a 2Meg connection.
>>>
>>> Usenet is actually faster through dial-up!
>>
>> How strange. My Broadband PAYG service from PlusNet (Force9) is
>> perfectly usable for downloading email and news, as well as for
>> browsing the web.
>>
>> As a test, I've reset this group so OE would download the headers
>> again. It downloaded 1000 headers in about 4 seconds.
>>
>> That's on a 2 Mbps connection. Force9's speed test has just returned
>> a result of 1.79 Mbps, which is towards the top end of the range of
>> results I normally get: I think the best I've seen is about 1.9 Mbps.
>
> Yep, they're lying, access to NNTP, either to their servers or
> premium is ferked, from my news provider, "Your max throughput is
> 2.47 KB/sec.", PN says, "you can download at 142.05 KB/sec. from our
> servers.", I know who I believe.

I appreciate that F9's speed test probably measures HTTP access rather than
POP or NNTP access, but my download speed of 1000 headers in 4 seconds is
considerably faster than Steve's speed of 550 headers in 2 minutes. There's
something *very* different between his results and mine. I wonder whether
the problem is confined literally to PlusNet and doesn't affect subsidiaries
such as Force 9?

My experience with F9's email and news is that when they work, they download
fast. Roughly once every 20 newsgroups, I find that OE fails to connect
(immediate failure) or else times out, but I've never had a case where it's
succeeded in connecting but has then downloaded slowly. Similarly with email
(though the failure to connect is rarer - probably once every 50 attempts).


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