Bianries and throttling. A question.

At the moment my broadband speed is between 7 and 8 mb.
when I try to get headers via Grabit from free.sonic-news.com the
estimated time in the last month or so has been given as hovering
between 9 and 12 hours given 20 t0 40 minutes either way. Needless
to say I haven't downloaded anything.

I wonder, with me not being that usenet literate, if anyone can
throw some light on this problem (heat I can well do without).
It the past I have had a fast service from this newsserver.
It has been suggested that my ISP Sky may be throttling
binaries downloads.

TIA

"Oddi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> At the moment my broadband speed is between 7 and 8 mb.
> when I try to get headers via Grabit from free.sonic-news.com the
> estimated time in the last month or so has been given as hovering
> between 9 and 12 hours given 20 t0 40 minutes either way. Needless
> to say I haven't downloaded anything.
>
> I wonder, with me not being that usenet literate, if anyone can
> throw some light on this problem (heat I can well do without).
> It the past I have had a fast service from this newsserver.
> It has been suggested that my ISP Sky may be throttling
> binaries downloads.
>
Not following your post but Sky doing a lot of adverts on normal TV for
thier BB saying no slowing down with them.

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Regards,
David

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"Oddi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> At the moment my broadband speed is between 7 and 8 mb.
> when I try to get headers via Grabit from free.sonic-news.com the
> estimated time in the last month or so has been given as hovering
> between 9 and 12 hours given 20 t0 40 minutes either way. Needless
> to say I haven't downloaded anything.
>
> I wonder, with me not being that usenet literate, if anyone can
> throw some light on this problem (heat I can well do without).
> It the past I have had a fast service from this newsserver.
> It has been suggested that my ISP Sky may be throttling
> binaries downloads.
>
> TIA
>
>


if you've found a free binary server i bet it gets a real thrashing.
if you were using giganews you'd probably be maxing out your connection.



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Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:28:15 -0000, in the Year of Our Lord, The dog
from that film you saw, Beloved Prophet of the Lord said:

> "Oddi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> At the moment my broadband speed is between 7 and 8 mb.
>> when I try to get headers via Grabit from free.sonic-news.com the
>> estimated time in the last month or so has been given as hovering
>> between 9 and 12 hours given 20 t0 40 minutes either way. Needless
>> to say I haven't downloaded anything.
>>
>> I wonder, with me not being that usenet literate, if anyone can
>> throw some light on this problem (heat I can well do without).
>> It the past I have had a fast service from this newsserver.
>> It has been suggested that my ISP Sky may be throttling
>> binaries downloads.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>
>
> if you've found a free binary server i bet it gets a real thrashing.
> if you were using giganews you'd probably be maxing out your connection.

Woof Woof!

Oddi wrote:

> At the moment my broadband speed is between 7 and 8 mb.
> when I try to get headers via Grabit from free.sonic-news.com the
> estimated time in the last month or so has been given as hovering
> between 9 and 12 hours given 20 t0 40 minutes either way. Needless
> to say I haven't downloaded anything.

I think your problems lies with the word *free* !

Graham

On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:58:55 +0000, Eeyore
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>
>Oddi wrote:
>
>> At the moment my broadband speed is between 7 and 8 mb.
>> when I try to get headers via Grabit from free.sonic-news.com the
>> estimated time in the last month or so has been given as hovering
>> between 9 and 12 hours given 20 t0 40 minutes either way. Needless
>> to say I haven't downloaded anything.
>
>I think your problems lies with the word *free* !
>
>Graham


The web page http://www.sonic-news.com/html/free_...es_server.html
says "Download speed is HEAVILY CAPPED for free users".

"spud" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...

> The web page http://www.sonic-news.com/html/free_...es_server.html
> says "Download speed is HEAVILY CAPPED for free users".

Gosh it certainly is!
I'm looking for a new free NG service, I'm not bothered if it got binaries
so when you posted the web site I give it a try. Well it died doing the NG
names list!

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David

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:45:45 UTC, "David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> "spud" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > The web page http://www.sonic-news.com/html/free_...es_server.html
> > says "Download speed is HEAVILY CAPPED for free users".
>
> Gosh it certainly is!
> I'm looking for a new free NG service, I'm not bothered if it got binaries
> so when you posted the web site I give it a try. Well it died doing the NG
> names list!

Push the boat out and blow ten euro a year on news.individual.net.

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Bob Eager
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:05:13 +0000, in the Year of Our Lord, spud,
Beloved Cotributor to this newsgroup said:

> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:58:55 +0000, Eeyore
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Oddi wrote:
>>
>>> At the moment my broadband speed is between 7 and 8 mb.
>>> when I try to get headers via Grabit from free.sonic-news.com the
>>> estimated time in the last month or so has been given as hovering
>>> between 9 and 12 hours given 20 t0 40 minutes either way. Needless
>>> to say I haven't downloaded anything.
>>
>>I think your problems lies with the word *free* !
>>
>>Graham
>
>
> The web page http://www.sonic-news.com/html/free_...es_server.html
> says "Download speed is HEAVILY CAPPED for free users".

Thanks for that information.

Was Oddi is now Blue Bottle.