Usenet benchmark test

I've decided to stop whinging about Plusnet's usenet speed and simply post
the hard facts:

http://www.xerez.plus.com/usenet.htm

if wrote

> I've decided to stop whinging about Plusnet's usenet speed and simply post
> the hard facts:
>
> http://www.xerez.plus.com/usenet.htm
>

Keep moaning and with luck you're get TOS'd by pussnet.

MinusNet <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:434ff1b7$0$64063$(E-Mail Removed) eenews.net:

> if wrote
>
>> I've decided to stop whinging about Plusnet's usenet speed and simply
>> post the hard facts:
>>
>> http://www.xerez.plus.com/usenet.htm
>>
>
> Keep moaning and with luck you're get TOS'd by pussnet.


The page is purely factual, and corroborated by the response times I've had
in the 3 hours since I posted the 0.1KB/sec graph. I posted it because I
hadn't seen a single post explaining the Usenet crisis (which started
earlier this week), only posts talking about solutions to longer term
traffic problems.

The feedback I've just had from Plusnet indicates that the problem is due
to the work they are doing to usenet traffic shaping and that it will take
another 2-3 weeks or so to complete. What they haven't explained is why
this work is (apparently) being done during their peak traffic hours
(16:00-01:00), pretty much killing Usenet off for whole evenings, rather
than during the daytime or early hours of the morning, which seem
relatively unaffected (perhaps a 30% slowdown, but it's hard to be sure
since the speeds have fluctuated somewhat over the weeks anyway).

If Plusnet don't like the published numbers they are free to reschedule the
work they're doing on their Ellacoya traffic shapers so that it takes place
during offpeak hours, eg. from 8am-4pm instead of 4pm-1am as now. (It would
save them a bomb in overtime too).

if wrote


> >> I've decided to stop whinging about Plusnet's usenet speed and simply
> >> post the hard facts:
> >>
> >> http://www.xerez.plus.com/usenet.htm
> >>
> >
> > Keep moaning and with luck you're get TOS'd by pussnet.
>
>
> The page is purely factual, and corroborated by the response times I've had
> in the 3 hours since I posted the 0.1KB/sec graph. I posted it because I
> hadn't seen a single post explaining the Usenet crisis (which started
> earlier this week), only posts talking about solutions to longer term
> traffic problems.
>
> The feedback I've just had from Plusnet indicates that the problem is due
> to the work they are doing to usenet traffic shaping and that it will take
> another 2-3 weeks or so to complete. What they haven't explained is why
> this work is (apparently) being done during their peak traffic hours
> (16:00-01:00), pretty much killing Usenet off for whole evenings, rather
> than during the daytime or early hours of the morning, which seem
> relatively unaffected (perhaps a 30% slowdown, but it's hard to be sure
> since the speeds have fluctuated somewhat over the weeks anyway).

You know the answer - you said it yourself "killing Usenet off"


> If Plusnet don't like the published numbers they are free to reschedule the
> work they're doing on their Ellacoya traffic shapers so that it takes place
> during offpeak hours, eg. from 8am-4pm instead of 4pm-1am as now. (It would
> save them a bomb in overtime too).
>

They don't pay overtime. Their support staff works shifts.

They also take a malicious delight in doing development work on a live
network.

Sometimes they act as if they still own the bandwidth, completely forgetting
that it's supposed to be out on hire to customers!

- Mike