 Bry
join:2008-12-31
Canada
 ·Cogeco Cable
| news.cogeco.ca slow? I've been using binary news for awhile, but speeds have dropped down quite a bit lately.. I used to be able to get between 1.2-1.3MB/s but right now that's around 300-500KB/s max.
HTTP doesn't appear affected, I can obtain 1.9-2.0MB/s from several sites.
-Bry.
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MarcerPremium,VIP
join:2007-07-08
Hamilton, ON
kudos:10 | Not too sure on that... Just tested @ home, hitting ~1.7MBps no problem |
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 rjbrakePremium
join:2010-06-19
Petawawa, ON | reply to Bry
cogeco has binaries? what's the retention? |
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Bry
join:2008-12-31
Canada Reviews:
·Cogeco Cable
| No idea.. someone else here mentioned it was quite large.
The speed hasn't really improved much, I reduced the simultaneous connections from 4 to 2 for now.
It has increased a bit, but doesn't go above 1MB/s anymore.
-Bry.
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| I just pulled down at 50mbps.
The oldest retention I have got is about 30days. |
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rjbrakePremium
join:2010-06-19
Petawawa, ON | reply to Bry
sounds good. do I need a login? i'd like to drop some nzb's and see what cogeco has |
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MarcerPremium,VIP
join:2007-07-08
Hamilton, ON
kudos:10 | No login, it's ACL'd based on your IP |
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rjbrakePremium
join:2010-06-19
Petawawa, ON | nice. |
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 pstewartPremium,VIP
join:2005-10-12
Peterborough, ON
kudos:1 | reply to Bry
It looks like Cogeco is using usenetserver.com as an outsourced option (not uncommon by any means).
Can someone on Cogeco post a traceroute to news.cogeco.ca - curious to see what it looks like? |
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| tracert news.cogeco.ca
Tracing route to newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com [69.16.185.250]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms 10.71.0.1
3 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms d226-*-**.home.cgocable.net [24.226.*.**]
4 23 ms 84 ms 23 ms 67.69.228.101
5 34 ms 35 ms 36 ms bx4-chicagodt_xe0-1-1-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.186.110]
6 28 ms 29 ms 38 ms Highwinds_bx5-chicagodt_xe-0-0-1.net.bell.ca [67.69.246.58]
7 52 ms 51 ms 53 ms unknown.hwng.net [209.197.0.70]
8 53 ms 56 ms 52 ms ve913.ar3.dc.hwng.net [209.197.1.34]
9 53 ms 55 ms 53 ms newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com [69.16.185.250]
Trace complete.
I do most of my usenet downloads from news.cogeco.ca. As a backup I have a block account with Astraweb.
Lately, I have been experiencing a variety of timeout errors with both news.cogeco.ca and other servers. Another odd thing is that when I split a large binary file between 2 or 3 download queues, I get different speeds in each queue; often the first connection I make is the slowest. I don't know if anyone else can explain this or has the same experience; it just has me puzzled.
My newsreader is Xnews. |
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Bry
join:2008-12-31
Canada Reviews:
·Cogeco Cable
| reply to Bry
I use SABnzbd, which is some program written in python.. has a fancy web interface.
The speed issues I have are mostly gone, but I had to actually bump the amount of concurrent connections I make to the server to get close to 1.9/2.0MB/s.
-Bry.
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Sometimes I'm rude, this is known. |
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Flynnt
join:2009-08-31
Windsor, ON | reply to Bry
I used to be able to max out my connection on Ultimate 30 but now I'm hardly able to get 500KB/s. I've been using 5 connections at a time. I put it up to 20 connections and it jumped to 2000KB/s. Not sure what's going on but at least doing it this way can speed it up if you have multiple files.
Edit: 32 connections gives me 3500KB/s. Good enough for now I guess. |
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