slow newsgroups speeds

jimmymac

jimmymac

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any ideas what might be up with by newsgroup downloading

I have 8mb BB and have checked with my isp to see if theres an issue, no problems there and i have tried various online spped checks and all seem fine.

I've run spyware and virus programs and the system is clean

However my d/loading is around 20-30kb/s max at the moment, which is down from an average of 400+kb/s

any ideas on what might be the issue?
 
The biggest problem with the internet, hehe, is the fact that whatever traffic you send over it is sent in various paths at the same time, that finally meet up at the intended destination over a period of time(milliseconds). These paths are determined by the routers your traffic meets on its journey...but we will not go into the technology behind routers in this post :).

This means what your downloading can be bouncing off many different networks (routers) that could even be half way around the world depending on your location and if the routing is that bad, however this usually isn't the case on good days :D. Also, whoever is running the newsgroup should have redundant servers that help each other out during times of heavy usage. If not, then this could be where the problem is or it could be that their line is saturated with users.

Try running a tracert to the newsgroup. Open up the command prompt and type in
Code: 
tracert www.somenewsgroup.com
while replacing the domain name with the actual newsgroup. This will echo out all the hops that the traffic passes by until it reaches its destination while reporting back times of how long the traffic took to pass that network. Look for very long times compared with the other hops. Now if the newsgroup servers are actually not part of that domain, then you will need to run a tracert to the IP address of those servers or if they have some sort of alias that is binded to that resolved IP. This is not guaranteed to work because in-between firewalls might block the ICMP packets, so just if you see it timeout...that is the problem.

Or their servers could be having some emotional issues...it happens :rolleyes:.
 
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have run the tracert on newsdemon which is my news server and nothing seems to be abnormal there. Times seem to be fine.

any other ideas?
 
I ran a tracert from home and hit the datapipe.net network with a 216ms hop, but at work it only seems to be around 12ms. It could be a temporary issue with one or more of the servers. I'd wait awhile and see if they fix it. I monitor all my servers at our collocations remotely and once I see a problem, I'll get on it right away. Hopefully they follow the same philosophy. It's hard to say where the servers are located, but if they are in the US then I'm sure the collocation is running a skeleton crew due to the Thanksgiving.
 
hmmm possibly, bit annoying really as its been so erratic for the last week, hardly worth paying any money for it. Think its time to move over to giganews :)

cheers for your help
 
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