Metronet Threaten Capping....

Anyone else who use Metronet got this?

I don't use their NNTP provision but obviously i do use their bandwidth.

"As you know around 3 months ago we changed our news (NNTP/Usenet)
provider to Supernews and in so doing we vastly improved the quality
of the Usenet service over what we had previously.

Unfortunately the drawback has been that some customers have taken
advantage of the improved service to such an extent that the service
is now being compromised by a few to the detriment of the majority.

As the news service is provided as a shared facility we would like to
ask that those few customers who are technically drawing most of the
Usenet resources apply some restraint and curtail their usage. As a
general guide we would ask that you limit Usenet usage to around 25GB
a month - which we believe to be both fair and viable considering most
larger providers have started to apply limits which are around a half
of this - and also limit the number of concurrent threads you use to 1
or 2 at the most.

We are hoping that allowing customers to exercise personal control
over Usenet will not require us to apply any formal change of usage
policy.

However if usage is not stemmed by those we believe are drawing the
majority of the resources within the next 7 days and there has been
little or no change we will of course make an announcement to formally
apply a usage policy on Usenet services.

For the vast majority of our customers the above will neither have any
bearing nor impact but it is important we make all customers aware of
it."

I think I did around 30 gb last month, but I'm in the first month of
broadband download frenzy, novelty worn off a bit and disk full!

So it's doesn't really bother me but it seems the capping trend will
continue...

Steve





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In article <2005012617164750073%stek1961no@spammaccom>,
Steve K <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Unfortunately the drawback has been that some customers have taken
> advantage of the improved service to such an extent that the service
> is now being compromised by a few to the detriment of the majority.


I guess that's one of the downsides of not having an in-house server,
get a bunch of people constantly downloading from a Supernews across the
pond.

cheers,
Paul
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Plusnet and Nildram are capping usenet. Plusnet look likely to cap
usage generally, as well. PIPEX have capped usnet for quite some time
(since it got outsourced to Giganews). Capping is everywhere :-p

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In message <2005012617164750073%stek1961no@spammaccom>, Steve K
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Anyone else who use Metronet got this?
>
>I don't use their NNTP provision but obviously i do use their
>bandwidth.

[Snip]

funnily enough, this just in from Mildred:

In order for Nildram to provide a robust and reliable News service we
will be changing our News service from the 1st February 2005.

All customers will be allowed a maximum of two concurrent 256 kbits/sec
connections with a maximum download limit per month depending on the
product purchased:

DSL500, PAYGO500, B2GO500 - 10 Gigabytes per month
DSL1000, PAYGO1000, B2GO1000 - 15 Gigabytes per month
DSL2000, PAYGO2000, B2GO2000 - 20 Gigabytes per month
DSL PRO and SDSL - 25 Gigabytes per month
Dial customers - 10 Gigabytes per month
Leased line customers - 30 Gigabytes per month
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Pete Devlin
[{//////news03//////at\\\\\secondrow/////co\\\\\uk}]
"Mind the oranges Marlon!"

pete devlin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> In message <2005012617164750073%stek1961no@spammaccom>, Steve K
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>Anyone else who use Metronet got this?
>>
>>I don't use their NNTP provision but obviously i do use their
>>bandwidth.
>
> [Snip]
>
> funnily enough, this just in from Mildred:
>
> In order for Nildram to provide a robust and reliable News service we
> will be changing our News service from the 1st February 2005.
>
> All customers will be allowed a maximum of two concurrent 256 kbits/sec
> connections with a maximum download limit per month depending on the
> product purchased:
>
> DSL500, PAYGO500, B2GO500 - 10 Gigabytes per month
> DSL1000, PAYGO1000, B2GO1000 - 15 Gigabytes per month

Coincidence?
Conspiracy?
Cartel?

In message <41f832d9$0$49567$(E-Mail Removed)>, Ian
Stirling <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Coincidence?
>Conspiracy?
>Cartel?

Collaboration.
Cheaper Connection Calls.
Time to Clear awf.
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Pete Devlin
[{//////news03//////at\\\\\secondrow/////co\\\\\uk}]
"Mind the oranges Marlon!"

"Steve K" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2005012617164750073%stek1961no@spammaccom...
> Anyone else who use Metronet got this?
>
> I don't use their NNTP provision but obviously i do use their bandwidth.
>
> "As you know around 3 months ago we changed our news (NNTP/Usenet)
> provider to Supernews and in so doing we vastly improved the quality
> of the Usenet service over what we had previously.
>
> Unfortunately the drawback has been that some customers have taken
> advantage of the improved service to such an extent that the service
> is now being compromised by a few to the detriment of the majority.
>
> As the news service is provided as a shared facility we would like to
> ask that those few customers who are technically drawing most of the
> Usenet resources apply some restraint and curtail their usage. As a
> general guide we would ask that you limit Usenet usage to around 25GB
> a month - which we believe to be both fair and viable considering most
> larger providers have started to apply limits which are around a half
> of this - and also limit the number of concurrent threads you use to 1
> or 2 at the most.
>
> We are hoping that allowing customers to exercise personal control
> over Usenet will not require us to apply any formal change of usage
> policy.
>
> However if usage is not stemmed by those we believe are drawing the
> majority of the resources within the next 7 days and there has been
> little or no change we will of course make an announcement to formally
> apply a usage policy on Usenet services.
>
> For the vast majority of our customers the above will neither have any
> bearing nor impact but it is important we make all customers aware of
> it."
>
> I think I did around 30 gb last month, but I'm in the first month of
> broadband download frenzy, novelty worn off a bit and disk full!
>
> So it's doesn't really bother me but it seems the capping trend will

The cap is for usenet use. not normal web use. Now ask yourself this what
are people downloading that is more than 25G a month Hmmm Well I bet it isnt
mainstream news groups I feel it may be more of the .bin varity if you know
what I mean, And yes I did get the email and I am not worried at all,
Personally I have seen speeds slow a bit lately so maybe the downloaders who
left plusnet came over and now clogging up metronet, So hopefully they will
move on again soon.

Ian

I've just received the following:

Dear Sir/Madam

Further to our email of the 26th January 2004 we have been monitoring
Usenet usage over the past 7 days and unfortunately no change has
resulted in Usenet patterns by a small band of customers. We are
therefore outlining here the formal changes we will now be applying.

The changes announced here also reflect the individual emails we have
received and also the very in-depth discussion that has recently taken
place on Adslguide.org.uk.

Most customers are of the opinion that they would be happy for us to
remove Usenet access altogether, provide access to text only Usenet,
or make it an extra chargeable service and these are options we have
considered.

However we are equally aware that Usenet is a very useful tool and
therefore any such action would impact on customers who do not have
excessive usage and could be deemed unfair on the majority.

Therefore as a fairer course of action we have decided to simply
reduce the number of concurrent connections to 2 per IP and reduce the
speed of access to binaries to 128Kbps. These changes will take place
over the next 24hrs.

This does not prevent anyone from subscribing to a Usenet service
independently and these changes only apply to the service we provide
via Supernews - which we are providing as an added value service with
no subscription charge levied on customers for such access.

NB: These restrictions ONLY apply to the Usenet news service and NOT
to your ADSL or web access, email or other Internet applications you
may be using and if you are not currently accessing Usenet or have no
use for it then you are NOT affected.

However, in case you want to access Usenet news groups details can be
found here: http://support.metronet.co.uk/techsumm.xhtml1

Thank you.

Regards

ADSL Services Team
MetroNet

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"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:mn.1be97d52a09c69c6.27089@TAKTHISAWAauchtermu chty.co.uk...
> I've just received the following:
<snip>
Sounds fair enough to me.

Ian

Ian" <spam"AT"bathfordhill.co.uk> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:mn.1be97d52a09c69c6.27089@TAKTHISAWAauchtermu chty.co.uk...
> > I've just received the following:
> <snip>
> Sounds fair enough to me.
>

Reducing the bandwidth to 128k sounds a bit tight. I oft download old radio
programs, which are out of copyright, and so lege, decent and honest....

> Ian
>
>