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[TWC] TW Internet Ultra 50/5mbit getting only 1mb/sec Usenet

It's the same thing for me. So, I did some testing from my work and it gets full download speed like 10Mbps. At my house, if I use Usenet to dl, it caps at like 1.4Mbps, but the strange thing is, if I include another Usenet provider in my client, it doubles to to 2.8Mbps (60 connections total). I can dl from MS at 6.1 because I have the same 50/5 and this has been happening for about a week. I even changed ports to 443,80,23, non ssl, 119, all the same thing. TW has definitely changed something but I can't figure out what. My Usenet providers are are two different networks too. I started to think it was my router, but nothing has changed except the dl speeds to Usenet.

reply to cleanaudi
WOW glad this was brought up.In ohio here and i am having the exact same slow speeds..Changing ports to non-ssl nothing works
30/5 here but only get like 1.5mb a sec instead of 3.7mb.It has to be TWC doing this.Usenetserver.com service here.Traceroutes are fine here.3 different newsreaders and all have the same speeds.

And I assume you already talked to usenetserver.com to ensure their servers are not throttling your downloads?

Hob

reply to cleanaudi
I personally have not because they have a network status update page whenever they have problems going on.

I tested my accounts at work, and I get full speeds. Only at home, I use TW and I am capped to around 1.5 per account. When I use all my Usenet providers combined to dl, I get 4.5Mbps.

Maybe Usenet providers are being flagged.

reply to cleanaudi
I've got 30/5 and Giganews has been slow the last 2-3 weeks. Was always able to peg my max d/l speed but lately can only get 1/4 to 1/3 max speed. Need to use all 20 connections just to get that.....fewer connections, slower speed.

Speed tests and other downloads still show that I have the service I'm paying for, its just not working with usenet. Changing ports, reconfiguring router, rebooting modem.......no effect. This sucks.

This is cleanaudi the original poster (didnt log in during my first post)

Yes we need to all report this to TWC. I really hope this is not permanent or my 50/5 is literally useless..

check to make sure your modem is bonded to 4 downstream channels also check levels.

my modem randomly rebooted one time and when it booted up only locked on to one downstream channel so your speed would be heavily degraded and cause other problems etc.

yup 6 channels bonded

reply to cleanaudi
So I've talked to TimeWarner they claim nothing is being capped.

I have two seperate TimeWarner connections here at home (a 50/5 and a lower one) and both don't work correctly.

At the office, I have TimeWarner as well, yet it seems that one is fine (I haven't tested a download there but I did the following):

Go to: »www.giganews.com/performance.html

Under Newsgroup Download Speed Test click on Test. If testing keeps blinking yet nothing else happens then something is being blocked. At work when I do this it actually works, but at home with 50/5 it just keeps blinking meaning there is some sort of block to the servers happening by TimeWarner.

I even had Tier 3 tech support go to that website and attmept the same thing and it seems his connection to the speed test was blocked as well. This is not a Usenet server provider issue, instead this is definietly a TW block/cap UGh

reply to cleanaudi
I have 20Mbs turbo. I use Newsleecher 5.0 beta 16 with newsleecher's usenet service and usenetnow.net's service and I max out my line with no problems. I also have the same experience using sabnzb with the same servers. Have you tried lowering or raising the number of connections you are using in order to see if that does anything? I use 15 connections each in my setup.
--
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill

reply to cleanaudi
I am not sure if this is relevant. Many usenet index sites have shut down the past two weeks (nzbmatrix, newsbin.es).

The download issue happened to me before. However, often after a week or two, it's usually "fixed". Once, I was sure TWC was throttling. Another time, they had a bad router somewhere which took them a month to fix.

This is still happening to me. I directly connected the modem, and checked that way. Can't max out the connections, unless I use multiple providers. Modem looks good, router looks good, sabnzb works good. Only thing left is my ISP, not sure what to do next.

Still happening here too. It was fine this morning (Monday) like it was when I left it the night before. Checked at a friends house later this a.m. and it was good there too. Came home tonight and now its back to 1/3 speed, so I don't know what's going on.

www.giganews.com/performance.html this just blinks for me too.

Delar what type of modem you do have? mine is sbg6580

Same modem here.

Friend has 10/1 service and a different modem (Scientific Atlanta), but still had the same problem.

reply to cleanaudi
Still happening to me to in NEO
Thanks TWC COCKS!!

reply to cleanaudi
I hope this is just a outage and not something thats being done on purpose