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How about 35 minutes to pull 72267 headers from Plusnet's newsserver?

Not bad for a 2Meg 'Premier' connection eh?

Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>How about 35 minutes to pull 72267 headers from Plusnet's newsserver?
>
>Not bad for a 2Meg 'Premier' connection eh?

Yup. Very slow tonight, on a 1meg Prem account.

Will we get a reply? Nope.

Steve wrote in article <news:j2ilk15c7pttqfr5n92t1514dcfcqmcnks@
4ax.com>:

> How about 35 minutes to pull 72267 headers from Plusnet's newsserver?
>
> Not bad for a 2Meg 'Premier' connection eh?

Slowest night so far for me. Consistently single figures kB/s on
headers. Group counts seem to take forever.

What I don't understand is why the Usenet status light is on Yellow. I
thought it was supposed to be fixed and the current crap speed is
solely down to the Ellacoya config.

Is there something else I'm missing?


--
Keith Nuttall
www.yammer.co.uk
Re-type the e-mail address how it sounds, remove .invalid

"> How about 35 minutes to pull 72267 headers from Plusnet's newsserver?
>
> Not bad for a 2Meg 'Premier' connection eh?

Nah .. 10 kb/s pulling a file from Astraweb
( because PN don't even have the group ) on 2meg Premier.

Chris

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:09:00 +0100 Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

"Keith Nuttall" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

> Is there something else I'm missing?

A couple of years back you could simply ask PlusNet, and get a straight,
truthful answer!

It's not quite like that anymore.

- Mike

I know a lot of people complain about the news server in the past - but
recently I have noticed that is extremely bad - getting headers and
downloading is so painfully slow.

Craig.

Real Ale wrote:
> "> How about 35 minutes to pull 72267 headers from Plusnet's newsserver?
>
>>Not bad for a 2Meg 'Premier' connection eh?
>
>
> Nah .. 10 kb/s pulling a file from Astraweb
> ( because PN don't even have the group ) on 2meg Premier.
>
> Chris
>
>

Hi there,

Is the group listed here:-
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active

If it is, we can add it.

Kind Regards,

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"Craig" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:434aed54$0$73606$(E-Mail Removed)...
>I know a lot of people complain about the news server in the past - but
>recently I have noticed that is extremely bad - getting headers and
>downloading is so painfully slow.
>
> Craig.
>

No problems here at all, downloading 1000 headers in a couple of seconds. Am
I the only Plusnet Premier 2Mb customer to consistently have fast reliable
downloads and usenet access!? P2P, bittorrents etc all consistently high
speed too.

I'm gonna regret saying this I can sense it!

W.

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> How about 35 minutes to pull 72267 headers from Plusnet's newsserver?
>
> Not bad for a 2Meg 'Premier' connection eh?


Can I ask why you stay with such a piss pot ISP, or are you still tied into
a contract ?