They may have quite heavily contended connections to the Usenet provider. If they know that virtually everything coming down is going to be dodgy there's not that much incentive to upgrade it - no ISP wants customers leeching 'Linux ISOs' from usenet if they can help it.

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Could be a server issue or an issue further upstream from your ISP network. The larger and further away the file is located the more vagaries that are completely out of control

What newsswever / where are you pulling files from? Can you post a traceroute?

What about the TBB test files as noted - you should be able to pull that 1GB file down in around 10-12 seconds.

I am using Eweka in Netherlands. Their support asked for a traceroute which I have sent them. I am not at home just now so can't try that download just now

If it helps, I use Eweka as well as Giganews. With just Eweka enabled I get around 30-50Mb, if I add Giganews in there too I get 70-85Mb

Eweka support suggesting stuff I have already tried different ports, SSL non SSL, software versions of sab and other software, NZBGet.

Fairly sure its Shell.

I would be happy enough with FTTC as there is no point in having 900 if i can't use it for what I want

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Eweka support suggesting stuff I have already tried different ports, SSL non SSL, software versions of sab and other software, NZBGet.

Fairly sure its Shell.

I would be happy enough with FTTC as there is no point in having 900 if i can't use it for what I want

You probably know this but just in case (I didn't when moving from FTTC to FTTP)...

Eweka offers a speed of 50 Mbit/s per Usenet account

just tried a tweaknews free sign up to compare a 1 and 10GB downloads to eweka. Exactly the same starts off at 100 and tails off very quickly.

Try using a VPN, if they are traffic shaping based on types of traffic then that will hide it.

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You probably know this but just in case (I didn't when moving from FTTC to FTTP)...

Eweka offers a speed of 50 Mbit/s per Usenet account

Is that not it then?

They're simply rate-limiting from their servesr. OP could have a 10G connection and it would make no difference.

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Try using a VPN, if they are traffic shaping based on types of traffic then that will hide it.

Funny enougfh that's just what I was trying when I saw your post.

Speed was down but it was a constant speed.

I am on the chat to shell just now asking about bandwidth and throttling on usenet

I use Zen 900mb internet and eweka.nl with SabNzbd, and get full speed, but can I just ask are you just downloading or unpacking as it downloads, also drive speed and cpu is a lot to do with speed, you said it starts off full speed then dies off, is it filling the ram cache of then slowing down ? try upping the cache size of your download client

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I use Zen 900mb internet and eweka.nl with SabNzbd, and get full speed, but can I just ask are you just downloading or unpacking as it downloads, also drive speed and cpu is a lot to do with speed, you said it starts off full speed then dies off, is it filling the ram cache of then slowing down ? try upping the cache size of your download client

Its just downloading before any unpack or repair. Same setup and hardware as I had with the VM500 connection which didn't suffer from this issue. Shell say that they are raising it with Openreach but I truely don't think they understand what I am telling them.