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    Claranews really slow

    Anyone else having trouble with really crap speeds off claranews?

    For about the past 2 weeks I've been lucky if I download at over 15k/sec. At the minute I'm not getting over 7k/sec retrieving headers which means it'll take me forever to update binary groups.


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    hmm, haven't really used news stuff in the past couple of weeks as Ive been at work all the time but I'm donwloading headers now and it's dog****.

    i'm using clara as my isp so they should have sufficient bandwidth and it's not contention as I can kick another d/l off and it maxes my connection out..

    i've also had a quick look in the support newsgroup and theres nothing about it running slow - weird.
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    It seems to be going a bit faster now, about 20k/sec. Still not going anywhere near as fast as it did before.
    I thought it was my connection since it was running really slow yesterday and running the speed tests i get about half what i should be getting.

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    it's maxing out my connection again here now - 60KB/s
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    from what i have seen there cap limit it set to 600KBs not 60Kbs
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    I use claranews and have noticed the slowdown but im using agent and it dosent show dowload speeds.
    Ferret

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    I had a few problems getting new headers last night. Although before that I managed to download over 1 gig of data at my max data rate.

    I tried to update headers this morning and it wasn't having any of it.

    Is this a regular thing with this service or does it tend to be good? The reason I ask is because I just forked out 50 quid for the news 20 package. I hope I haven't made a mistake.

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    are you not on the announce list mate?

    they had a major news server problem, hang fire while I get it......

    here we go - this is quality service from the director!

    To: Announce List Subscriber
    Subject: News service outage
    From: Announce List Service <Announce@CLARA.NET>
    Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 01:55:59 BST

    At around 1.35 this morning the news entire news service
    dropped off the network. We do not yet know the cause of the
    problem but an engineer is on his way to telehouse to
    investigate.

    This problem is unrelated to the work carried out on the
    authentication database which was successfully completed
    at 1.05am.

    steve


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    info@clara.net

    To: Announce List Subscriber
    Subject: News service outage - service restored at 0215am
    From: Announce List Service <Announce@CLARA.NET>
    Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 02:38:30 BST

    Service was restored to the news.clara.net news cluster after one-*server was disconnected from the network.-*-*news.clara.net will be running under capacity until the fault-*with the server can be remedied, or the server replaced.-*-*Please accept our apologies for this unscheduled outage.-*-*Ollie

    -- -*Claranet Ltd-*info@clara.net
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    thanks for that info aidanjpadden.

    Hope they restore it back to normal quick sharp.

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    --Forgetaboutit. My damn firewall was playing up--

    Anyone else having difficulties connecting to clarenews tonight?
    Last edited by ZX7R; 3rd September 2002 at 07:13 AM.

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