Virgin Media newsgroup server under performing?

scorpionxedos

Nice and thanks,Big G, understand what you're saying. Hope it pops-up bright and shiny tomorrow.

fenlander_uk

scorpionxedos wrote: »

Yep, 50Mb. I'm using GrabIt. What news client are you using?

SABnzbd + various Web-based Indexers.

fenlander_uk

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Remember a lot of Usenet stuff is US based, they tend to take down their servers overnight just as we would. While we'd never see a Highwinds status page anything that slows down during that time there is a good chance that is what it is.

I've never known a usenet server to shut down overnight!

Big_Graeme

fenlander_uk wrote: »

I've never known a usenet server to shut down overnight!

It's when any datacentre would do work, doesn't happen often.

scorpionxedos

It looks like the problem has been fixed, for me anyway. Got a steady 6500KB/s this morning.

Let's hope it stays that way.

Thanks to all the people who contributed to this thread.

itGuyUK80

simple question... have you checked your speed at www.speedtest.net

gjchester

Big_Graeme wrote: »

They did and it saw a huge improvement in the service, I saw a dip in download speeds mid-morning and they are back up to decent speeds at the moment.

I'd say the outsourced company are doing some maintenance as it was the middle of the night US time.

I may return to them, they were useful for radio ham stuff, but now we are always on, I suspect web forums have more sway (or facebook) these days...