Hi, I have had the same problem for the last 3 nights now stuck on 30k dload speed, has anybody found a solution to this?

I have had problems for 3 or 4 days. Throttling is occuring at all times of the day. I raised a ticket early yesterday:-

I am on BBYW Option 3 - my expected downstream speeds should, I believe, be as shown at http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/products/archi...

Until very recently that is precisely what I got, result happiness.

Now Usenet (nntp) speeds have collapsed. During the day it is around 120 Kbps in the evening it is 56K modem speed and even at 06.50 it is only 720 Kbps. I do not believe it is congestion at the local exchange since if I do a speed test from e.g. Speedtest.net I invariably get close to my IP profile speed.

Can you please explain?

So far no response.

I used it yesterday morning and it was fine through Astraweb, what news servers are people using in case it's a server problem just tried it now and it's running at line speed 6.2Mbps

Edited by deleted (Wed 01-Apr-09 10:28:19)

30k still right now anyone else?

620 Kbps on Giganews

At 12.00 speed dropped to 200 Kbps - this is PlusNet 'traffic management'

Depends what product your on as to when throttling comes into effect if your on Unlimited it's pretty much across the board http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadb... previous expected speeds can be found by putting your product name into search box on main site

If you had taken the trouble to read my first post in this thread it would have told you precisely what product I am on together with a link to the restrictions to which I am subject. I believe that I should see no restriction until 16.00.

Newsgroup Download Speed Test @ 16.10

from news.giganews.com 90 Kbps
from europe-news.giganews.com 90 Kbps

Perhaps one of those nice people from PlusNet could try and persuade us that this is not caused by their actions whether deliberate or otherwise.

Extremely sorry just trying to help as you had put the details in a quote box I assumed that you were quoting a post by someone else, I consider myself chastised but can offer no further help