Re: E7even broadband slowest isp?

On 12 Nov 2005 17:10, "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'd find it hard to believe that their *network* makes any distinction
>between binaries and text. Their main Usenet *server* seems very
>slow, but I don't have a comparison with using Usenet protocol across
>their network to someone else's Usenet server, nor have I seen anyone
>else reporting on that situation.

usenet.plus.net has been giving me timeouts more in recent times (2-3
weeks) than in the past 2 years. text.usenet.plus.net can give me up
to 200 kB/s, but even at its peak speed, before the most recent speed
calming, the connections peaked at 30 kB/s and were typically 15 kB/s
during the day until 01:00 (when it was then deemed 'off peak')

>The (lack of) speed of response from their main usenet server does not
>seem to me to have changed appreciably throughout this saga of network
>shaping changes: it's been slow throughout.

Are you on BB Plus or Premier ? If the former, then you would have
perhaps seen it go down from slow but reliable, to not being reachable
at all, most of the time. On Friday morning I managed to get the groups
list updated and marked about 25 items from a binary group to download,
but so far, and leaving Agent Commander to retry collecting marked bodies
every 15 minutes, only 7 items have downloaded, with the log reporting a
load of timeouts. That's all since the Ellacoya's have had changes put
into effect concerning the Usenet traffic reduction (and you'd surely
agree these are part of their network, and those units may make such
a distinction (between text and binaries, because text will have many
simple to check characteristics [spaces, vowel ratios, etc])

>I *do* have experience now of their text-only usenet server, and its
>speed seems OK.

>I can't comment on binaries groups, since I don't use them.

I have had to switch back to the text.usenet.plus.net server to be able
to get any headers and make posts, since trying to access anything using
the 'main' server was near to impossible much of the time... whether it
will be different since their network staff have apparently made changes
(but no clear idea what they have decided on as to the maximum speed the
users can have, so we won't know if the performance is what they expect,
or not, because they seem to have lost their 'open and honest' policy,
and treat customers like mushrooms [kept in the dark, fed on ....]

[ If usenet.plus.net had been accepting my connection attempts, this may
have been posted a few hours ago, but the regular 'ping' I heard was an
indicator from Agent that attempts to connect had timed out (as usual)]
.

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