News server related queries

uploaded this morning and yes it is still cached.. it was a random episode.. something like Robin Hood.. just downloaded in to test the speed.. so Cached and non-cached downloads have the same speed of 0.7kbps :(
 
Think this is an IS problem, server must be overloaded, got 30MB in 3 hours :-( with a cached nzb.
 
Just got an e-mail back from Giganews support and they confirmed that somebody... "The ISP" was shaping the traffic last week. This is on an OpenWeb (IS) uncapped account that is supposed to be P2P friendly.
 
do urself a favour
cancel ur overpriced giganews acc
and get a much better priced astraweb one at www.astraweb.com
turn on ur ssl at 256bit, higher security and forget about the shaping issues
 
Garyvdh said:
Just got an e-mail back from Giganews support and they confirmed that somebody... "The ISP" was shaping the traffic last week. This is on an OpenWeb (IS) uncapped account that is supposed to be P2P friendly.
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You should send them a nice little letter telling them to stop or else we gonna kill them :(
Gary what does uncapped cost you?
Line and service?
 
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Riot2 said:
do urself a favour
cancel ur overpriced giganews acc
and get a much better priced astraweb one at www.astraweb.com
turn on ur ssl at 256bit, higher security and forget about the shaping issues
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um, if you read the last page of this thread you will see that is exactly what I did. :p
 
marine1 said:
You should send them a nice little letter telling them to stop or else we gonna kill them :(
Gary what does uncapped cost you?
Line and service?
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ADSL 4 Mb line and rental from Telkom (not sure how much that is these days)
OpenWeb Uncapped Express (IS fibre) = R1299.00
Unlimited Astraweb account = R130.00 a month
 
Regarding Alt.Binz. (V0.25.0)

Recently my limiting of download speed has not been working.
I usually limit it to 35Kb/s while surfing or playing poker but lately when I set the limit, it just gets ignored and keeps downloading at full line speed. Doesn't matter if I set it to 5Kb/s or 35Kb/s.

Anybody else experience this before and how did you fix it? Where can I download v0.28?
 
APoc84 said:
Regarding Alt.Binz. (V0.25.0)

Recently my limiting of download speed has not been working.
I usually limit it to 35Kb/s while surfing or playing poker but lately when I set the limit, it just gets ignored and keeps downloading at full line speed. Doesn't matter if I set it to 5Kb/s or 35Kb/s.

Anybody else experience this before and how did you fix it? Where can I download v0.28?
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Make sure your Scheduler is turned off if you want manual upload/download settings, otherwise Alt.Binz ignores your manual settings and sets it back to your Scheduler settings... :)
 
I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction, I have just started to get involved with the SAIX news server, and I am connected and downloading at decent speeds. However I can't get more than one connection, the first one connects and the second and third just keep timing out.

Any ideas? Using Altbinz.
 
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