Post by freddie So, is anyone else finding that Virgin Media are capping Usenet speeds down to an unusable level?
Sometimes. AIUI, they allocate a fixed amount of bandwidth per area. The more who use it, the less each gets. They also appear to be throttling off-net usenet traffic significantly more than to their "own" servers, Highwind in the Netherland.
Post by freddie So, is anyone else finding that Virgin Media are capping Usenet speeds down to an unusable level?
Sometimes. AIUI, they allocate a fixed amount of bandwidth per area. The more who use it, the less each gets. They also appear to be throttling off-net usenet traffic significantly more than to their "own" servers, Highwind in the Netherland.
There are various ways around it
Only way I've found is to move to BT - no prolems there :-)