Clear throttling to 3MB/s on CISP / Vumatel

[MostlySatisfied]

I've been a client of Cool Ideas for several years and had nothing but incredible service on a 500/100 package. However the past several days I've been noticing that Usenet traffic from SunnyUsenet, Easynews and Giganews was much slower than usual.

I would normally see 20-25MB/s transfer speeds almost always, now all of a sudden I'm seeing 3MB/s with obvious throttling being applied. If I enable encrypted Mullvad VPN with traffic obfuscation all of a sudden I can get my full 20-25MB/s.

So I'd like to know whether this is something temporary, a new policy, a line problem or what?

 

[MakoPC]

This is a line problem, not throttling, ISP's have no reason to throttle

 

[PBCool]

I've been a client of Cool Ideas for several years and had nothing but incredible service on a 500/100 package. However the past several days I've been noticing that Usenet traffic from SunnyUsenet, Easynews and Giganews was much slower than usual.

I would normally see 20-25MB/s transfer speeds almost always, now all of a sudden I'm seeing 3MB/s with obvious throttling being applied. If I enable encrypted Mullvad VPN with traffic obfuscation all of a sudden I can get my full 20-25MB/s.

So I'd like to know whether this is something temporary, a new policy, a line problem or what?

Hi there, we don't even have the ability to throttle services.

What result do you get on an international speedtest?

This sounds more like the usenet service possibly limiting based on your IP?

 

[MostlySatisfied]

What result do you get on an international speedtest?

Speedtest comes back at full speed (bit over actually).

This sounds more like the usenet service possibly limiting based on your IP?

I'd agree but for the fact that it was doing exactly the same thing on EasyNews, SunnyUsenet and GigaNews.

I've been doing some more testing this morning and the speed on Usenet seems to have returned to normal, oddly enough--maybe it was just a transitory issue.

At any rate thanks for the confirmation that throttling isn't something that you guys do, as that in itself is a relief.