Hypatia
02-04-2011, 08:50 PM
i just wanted to add something concernign astraweb.
IF you have different routes to different AW servers then you might use a trick=)
Giganews has just 2 IP addresses assigned to their 2 servers, supernews has just one
But
Astraweb has got shitload of server IP addresses both for normal and ssl servers.
Sometimes due to the route between your ISP and AW's servers, your speed might be slow depending on how the flow of data goes.
So you can do for instance "nslookup eu.news.astraweb.com" and get up to 8 different Ip addresses and try them all.
It saved my speed several times. All morning and day i had great speed to the server XXX but it dropped heavily in the evening, so i ran "tracert servers IP address", checked the route, then chose another Ip address that had different route.
And voila! My speed was back to max.
Hope this helps one day.
PS
ive just checked all servers IPs that have a similar route crippling at this time of day my speed.
All these servers were slow.So it has nothing to do with servers but with the route.
When i checked several servers with another route they worked OK..
But still we must assume that different servers might give us different speed at different time
PS Example:
Tracert to one of the AW servers(the last part):
*****
7 * 78 ms 69 ms de-cix.ohtele.com [80.81.192.165]
8 62 ms 60 ms 734 ms xe-2-2-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [193.27.64.122]
9 60 ms 59 ms 61 ms netrouting.xe-2-4-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [77.243
180.150]
10 63 ms 63 ms 62 ms unknown.ams.astraweb.com [193.202.122.135]
Tracert to another AW server:
7 66 ms 65 ms 65 ms xe-4-2-0.bb2.lon1.uk.gbxs.net [195.66.224.231]
8 69 ms 69 ms 68 ms xe-4-4-0.bb1.lon2.uk.gbxs.net [193.27.64.78]
9 70 ms 71 ms 70 ms xe-2-3-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [193.27.64.81]
10 75 ms 74 ms 76 ms 193.27.64.53
11 71 ms 71 ms 72 ms netrouting.xe-2-4-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [77.243
180.150]
12 77 ms 76 ms 77 ms unknown.ams.astraweb.com [193.202.122.144]
Today, in the evening all servers that have the route #1 have been extremely slow for me( 900-KB-1.2 MB) so far
But servers that have the route #2 have been maxing out my connection
Sometimes its vice versa. It depends on what is happening "in between"
So dont rush blaming your ISP or AW.
IF you have different routes to different AW servers then you might use a trick=)
Giganews has just 2 IP addresses assigned to their 2 servers, supernews has just one
But
Astraweb has got shitload of server IP addresses both for normal and ssl servers.
Sometimes due to the route between your ISP and AW's servers, your speed might be slow depending on how the flow of data goes.
So you can do for instance "nslookup eu.news.astraweb.com" and get up to 8 different Ip addresses and try them all.
It saved my speed several times. All morning and day i had great speed to the server XXX but it dropped heavily in the evening, so i ran "tracert servers IP address", checked the route, then chose another Ip address that had different route.
And voila! My speed was back to max.
Hope this helps one day.
PS
ive just checked all servers IPs that have a similar route crippling at this time of day my speed.
All these servers were slow.So it has nothing to do with servers but with the route.
When i checked several servers with another route they worked OK..
But still we must assume that different servers might give us different speed at different time
PS Example:
Tracert to one of the AW servers(the last part):
*****
7 * 78 ms 69 ms de-cix.ohtele.com [80.81.192.165]
8 62 ms 60 ms 734 ms xe-2-2-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [193.27.64.122]
9 60 ms 59 ms 61 ms netrouting.xe-2-4-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [77.243
180.150]
10 63 ms 63 ms 62 ms unknown.ams.astraweb.com [193.202.122.135]
Tracert to another AW server:
7 66 ms 65 ms 65 ms xe-4-2-0.bb2.lon1.uk.gbxs.net [195.66.224.231]
8 69 ms 69 ms 68 ms xe-4-4-0.bb1.lon2.uk.gbxs.net [193.27.64.78]
9 70 ms 71 ms 70 ms xe-2-3-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [193.27.64.81]
10 75 ms 74 ms 76 ms 193.27.64.53
11 71 ms 71 ms 72 ms netrouting.xe-2-4-0.bb1.ams1.nl.gbxs.net [77.243
180.150]
12 77 ms 76 ms 77 ms unknown.ams.astraweb.com [193.202.122.144]
Today, in the evening all servers that have the route #1 have been extremely slow for me( 900-KB-1.2 MB) so far
But servers that have the route #2 have been maxing out my connection
Sometimes its vice versa. It depends on what is happening "in between"
So dont rush blaming your ISP or AW.