Virginmedia news servers

[Bandit1.3]

Hi ive been using vm news servers with a program called grabit for many years but as of last thursday the download speeds have been very slow 4.3Gb file used to take about 20-30mins now its reporting 5 Days my speed drop to 5.4Kb/s and 0 loss of connection equipment checked out fine ive tried diff programstill reports slow downloads now at vm has a clue what im taking about any members on here having the same problem .

[Lacutas]

I used exactly the same, last night I down loaded Captain America and Zoo Keeper, I was getting 1mb/sec, but towards the end it dropped to half of that, but was still ok for free. I have a 10 meg virgin connection.

[Bandit1.3]

Hi thanks for reply what part of the country are you in im not getting anywhere near that my speeds used to be fantastic dont what's change it but vm found no problems with my equipment im on 30meg

[leeds6]

try your speeds after midnight if they return to normal then virgin are choking you at other times even though they will say thier not if it is still as bad then you have a connection problem


and try this http://just4today.net/ its a free news server you just have to log in every day for a name and password if the speeds are the same on there at the same time as the virgin servers then you know your been choked

[Lacutas]

Manchester

[cupid stunt]

Hi, I use grabbit on newshosting through VM 10mb connection. All ok in pure N*L area 00017

If u DL over 3GB during the day VM choke speeds to 300
Overnight is defo the best, no restrictions

[tiger56]

you might not even get that soon... - http://torrentfreak.com/newzbin-uses...appens-110327/


for increased speed look for a news client that supports port 80...

[tiger56]

and you might want to look here first also,sorry couldn't edit first post

h**p://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html

and here.. h**p://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14322957

sorry for live link on first post if a mod could change it please.

[Bandit1.3]

Hi to all who replied contacted vm they tried everything to see what problem was but could not find a problem they are not choking me only traffic management during peak times like every one else as its a unsupported service they could only look into it so far. Any one recommend a good but cheap userserver. thanks.

[jet]

Can you post your superdud connections page?
My downsream power levels are low and an engineer comming out.
This can cause streaming buffering and download problems.

Connection

Startup Procedure
Procedure Status Comment
Acquire Downstream Channel 323000000 Hz Locked
Connectivity State OK Operational
Boot State OK Operational
Configuration File OK
Security Enabled BPI+
Downstream Channels
Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power SNR Docsis/EuroDocsis locked
Locked QAM256 57 55616000 Kbits/sec 323000000 Hz -12.7 dBmV 32.0 dB Hybrid
Locked QAM256 54 55616000 Kbits/sec 299000000 Hz -11.9 dBmV 32.7 dB Hybrid
Locked QAM256 55 55616000 Kbits/sec 307000000 Hz -12.3 dBmV 32.3 dB Hybrid
Locked QAM256 56 55616000 Kbits/sec 315000000 Hz -12.6 dBmV 32.1 dB Hybrid
Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown
Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown
Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown
Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown
Upstream Channels
Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power
Locked ATDMA 5 20480 Kbits/sec 45800000 Hz 46.2 dBmV
Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV
Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV
Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV
Primary Downstream Service Flow
Downstream(0)
SFID 8550
Max Traffic Rate 53000000 bps
Max Traffic Burst 10000 bytes
Mix Traffic Rate 0 bps
Primary Upstream Service Flow
Upstream(0)
SFID 16177
Max Traffic Rate 5140000 bps
Max Traffic Burst 8160 bytes
Mix Traffic Rate 0 bps
Max Concatenated Burst 8160 bytes
Scheduling Type Best Effort
Current System Time:Sat Jul 30 12:15:14 2011