Dying IS server or interference from the sun?

[Vl@d]

So we where told that there where some kind of an interference from the sun on the IS satelites therefore we would get reasonable speed on IS from 18 September.

Well, it's 19 September and speeds still look dismal. What's the next excuse or will we hear the true story?

 

[oober]

Now it's the moon that is making all IS subscribers howl.

 

[Darth Garth]

And still you are suckers for punishment .

 

[DGremlin]

So we where told that there where some kind of an interference from the sun on the IS satelites therefore we would get reasonable speed on IS from 18 September.

Well, it's 19 September and speeds still look dismal. What's the next excuse or will we hear the true story?

I looked outside and I noticed a breeze, so I figure it must be the wind blowing the information away from the sattelites dishes.

 

[spiderz]

Stray cosmic rays are interfering with the osillator modules on the sattelites making them slow.

that or blame the aliens....

 

[Napalm]

Beings from outer space aka Aliens have invaded our news server and downloading the crap out of it :> .

 

[icyrus]

Simply put, the problem is IS. I'm starting to think that they are worse then telkom but their power to screw the consumer is limited.

 

[Brenden_E]

I've been able to manage 20-30Kb/s for a while now. Quite happy; since there's no alternative and it amounts to 30GB download's worth of "international" content.

 

[Vl@d]

Looks like your system is flying..........

I managed a very good 7-10kb/s this morning..........

Wil see if the qued 1.5 gig got downlaoaded today........ Sorry this month.......

 

[Brenden_E]

It was completely dead till the 15th - I prob did like 500MB in all that time. In contrast did about 8GB - 10GB since then...

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

its dead here.. getting 2kb/s spikes every now n then

 

[Raithlin]

ROFL

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the title for this thread! We used to tell our boss that, whenever something happened that we couldn't (be bothered to) explain...

 

[Biggie]

Got 35-40kb/s whole weekend on 384,yesterday dead,today steady at around 35k.I in a remote area...suddenly that sounds like a good thing.

grabit - news.is - 4 connections

 

[Freaksta]

Mines working on only some files... :/ Only 2.2 out of the 6gigs of series ive got on download is avalible on the server... I jst with they would get all the series downloads working.. Then i would be happy.......

But ye.... Apparently IS is upgrade there servers and stuff.... Says we must wait til the end of the month :/

 

[3Y3W17N355]

im getting 39Kb/s

grabit - news.is - 7 connections

 

[oober]

I got tired of the incomplete posts so I bought myself a 2GB block account for $2 from http://usenet-news.net/index1.php?url=get these guys. And now that specific episode is flying.

The nice thing about these guys is that the account works like WA prepaid so I will not loose my remaining MB at the end of the month.

 

[ziglet]

should paid $10 and you get 20gb at easynews

 

[oober]

Agg I just wanted to try the thing out. They also had 20GB for $10. Next Time I will do something like that. Here are there prices.
2 GB $ 2.00
5 GB $ 3.00
10 GB $ 5.00
20 GB $ 10.00
30 GB $ 14.00
50 GB $ 20.00
100 GB $ 32.00
200 GB $ 62.00
300 GB $ 92.00

If you ask me thats not bad. Do the easynews accounts expire? Or can I pay a once of ammount for certain amount of gigs?

They also have unmeterred accounts for $15 a month.

 

[spiderz]

but don't you have to use international bandwith then?