At 08.00 this morning Giganews speed test 220 Kbps. Was on gateway pc1-ng03 (at least that is what I have written down). Reconnected, now on ptn-ag2 and speed went to 1840 Kbps - close to my IP profile. Synch speed I hasten to add unchanged at 2432.

Sorry, did not mean to be churlish. Was in a bad mood since PN had not bothered to respond to my ticket and I was becoming increasingly frustrated.

There was a note on the plusnet forum about pn3 being slow last night, something about 30k on p2p.
I didn't have the problem but I was on a different central. (TG that they still have centrals no issues like I had with enta after the switch over, and a totally saturated Scottish node)

We've had a few reports of problems whilst connected to pcl-ag03. We're in the process of rebooting the Ellacoya switch that works alongside that gateway to see if it remedies the problem.

I'm still having Usenet problems. Right now I can't downloading anything - it takes a few minutes before it even connects and then it download at 0.06KB/s...
After a few minutes of it being connected it stops completely.

Tracerts are timing out to all the major news servers (Astraweb, Giganews, etc).

For some reason I can't copy the tracert from the command prompt (I tried ctrl + c) so here is a screenshot of a tracert to the Giganews european server;

http://i42.tinypic.com/2j4x0z5.jpg

I get pretty much the same result to the Astraweb and Easynews servers. I have disabled my antivirus and outside the throttling hours (after midnight up until 4pm) usenet downloads flawlessly at full speed.
I'm pretty sure it is something at Plusnet's end doing this.

I don't mind Usenet being throttled which is why I chose Option 3 because I don't use it much, but I don't like it being pretty much completely blocked and unusable!
If I can't get it fixed I will consider leaving unfortunately.

Edited by deleted (Thu 16-Apr-09 22:34:41)

For some reason I can't copy the tracert from the command prompt (I tried ctrl + c)

To do this:

Right click in command window and select Mark.
Highlight the text you want to copy.
Press enter on the keyboard.

Paste as normal into other apps or right click and select paste to paste back into the command window.