WOW throttling usenet speeds? in W.O.W. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19327293 en Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:08:34 EDT Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:08:34 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19370754 pargoff : yeah it seems like the routing has changed and some newsservers dont like the new routing.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19370754 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:35:39 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19370440 anon : For the past 7-10 days my usenet speeds are at a total crawl and I am not a power user by any means. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19370440 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:58:34 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19349800 pargoff : i signed up for usenetserver last night and i get full speeds from there so i guess it may be a routing issue through wow with power usenet.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19349800 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:04:45 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19346978 pargoff : powerusenet does not provide this.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19346978 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:22:46 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19346580 Goober : Choose a different route. I know GN and NH let you do that. I assume most of the others do as well. Don't know about Astra, since I haven't had them in years.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19346580 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:22:18 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19346566 pargoff : no luck so far. same crap seeds and wow's cust service is 100% clueless. i guess i'm stuck with this until i can switch to a different news server.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19346566 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:20:00 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19343460 Goober : Everything is fine here. 4 connections basically max out my line (6 mbps).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19343460 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:58:04 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19339363 gene32 : Like John, I use Astraweb as well and my downloads lately have been total crap. I tried different ports, same result. Speeds are hit and miss and are usually in the toilet the entire transfer. I'm going to call WOW or email them and see what's up. I know it's a WOW problem because I called my friend on the other side of Columbus with TWC/RR and his Astraweb transfers max out his connection and he's been having no problems getting full speed out of Astraweb.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19339363 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:34:18 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19338135 anon :
said by pargoff See Profile :

no idea but i have been using powerusenet for almost a month and this just started happening. this is garbage.
From your response, what I suggested didn't work. Did you sign up for the "secure" account with powerusenet? If not try upgrading and use SSL on ports 443 or 563. You can reconfigure you existing newsreader if it supports SSL or install an add-on if it doesn't.

A game of cat and mouse.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19338135 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:31:01 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19331200 Phoenix2088 :
said by imrf See Profile :

said by anonamouse :

This has been going on for a couple of years at least. I'm surprised more users don't complain.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but WOW has never throttled Usenet. I get max download speeds from my Usenet provider all the time, and it doesn't matter what pipe I may be connected through.
No problems here.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19331200 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:11:49 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19331128 Inflex :
said by pargoff See Profile :

no idea but i have been using powerusenet for almost a month and this just started happening. this is garbage.
Powerusenet and Giganews are one and the same.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19331128 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:57:06 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19330121 hamburglar_ : I get full connection speeds to both the provided Giganews (news.wideopenwest.com) account and my Easynews account. It sometimes takes 2 or 3 connections to max it out, but it always does. Not sure what the problem is there. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19330121 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:12:58 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19329719 pargoff : no idea but i have been using powerusenet for almost a month and this just started happening. this is garbage.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19329719 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:07:55 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19329342 john1290 :
said by pargoff See Profile :

yes, of course. everything was working fine...i was pegging my connection, until two days ago.
Same here. I use Grab-it and when I use Astraweb, I max out my 6 meg service with 8 connections going. When I tried switching to WOW/Giganews, it dropped to about 50K/sec with 4 connections at once. Maybe it's a Giganews problem?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19329342 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:09:43 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19328634 pargoff : yes, of course. everything was working fine...i was pegging my connection, until two days ago.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19328634 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:01:37 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19328614 Inflex : You do use more than one connection, right?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19328614 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:58:34 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327994 pargoff : like i said, this just started happening this week. customer service is useless. they wouldnt even reset my IP for me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327994 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:15:23 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327865 imrf :
said by anonamouse :

This has been going on for a couple of years at least. I'm surprised more users don't complain.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but WOW has never throttled Usenet. I get max download speeds from my Usenet provider all the time, and it doesn't matter what pipe I may be connected through. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327865 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:51:30 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327782 pargoff : wow, thanks for you help. i'll try this tonight!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327782 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:33:56 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327777 anon :
said by pargoff See Profile :

can i spoof any MAC address i want in my router?
Sure, just remember that only hex is allowed.(0-F) The first three octets indicate the manufacturer.

00-60-97-xx-xx-xx would be a 3com part and 00-C0-F9-xx-xx-xx would be Motorola for example.

It might be necessary to reboot your modem along with your router after making the change. WOW allows three IP addresses per account and the MAC addresses associated with those IP's is stored in the modem.

Good luck.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327777 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:32:53 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327613 pargoff : can i spoof any MAC address i want in my router? i've never done that before.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327613 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:01:43 EDT Re: WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327584 anon : This has been going on for a couple of years at least. I'm surprised more users don't complain.

Go to »www.giganews.com/performance.html and do the speed test from both servers. You will most likely find that your speed is much higher using the European server but if you try to use that server it will not authenticate your username and password.

Farther down the page will be your reverse traceroute info and I'm betting that WOW has you on sprintlink. I'm also willing to bet that two days ago WOW had you on at&t and you had full download speed.

Try spoofing the MAC address in your router in order to draw a differnet IP address. You may have to do this several times but if you are lucky you will get an IP that will put you back on at&t.

Calling customer service doesn't help. They don't have a clue.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327584 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:57:23 EDT WOW throttling usenet speeds? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327293 pargoff : just curious if anyone is using powerusenet as their news server and have experienced a reduction in download speed. everything was working great until two days ago and now my max d/l speed from usenet is about 150KB/s. i get full speed during speed tests and from the internet in general. it's only usenet that seems throttled. i have tried both with and without my router in the loop with no change. any ideas?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19327293 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:49:32 EDT