nzherald "views" - where are they

Anyone else read the "blogs" on the NZ Herald site and send your views in ?
Where are you suppose to read these "views" ?
Only views I ever see are for the big new stories, but never any public
viewing of the views for the "blogs" etc....
Going to drop the Herald a line and ask why bother having the views option
if noone can see them.
Just be interersted to see what some peoples views are on some topics that
come up.

 

Not sure you really *want* to read them. Man, a platform like that sure brings
out the maroons. (I went there once by a circuitous route - sidebar on one of
those stories led to a kind of homepage for the blogs which had a sidebar with
the different blog topics i.i.r.c.).

cheers, -Peter

 

True there is some stupid responses, but some are interesting to view

 

Does it bring out any other colours as well?

Allistar.

 

As Bugs Bunny used to say, "What a maroon!".

 

Yes its another slow torrent thread - haven't seen one for a while so
I thought I'd start one

ISP is slingshot

Running Bitcomet, XP, Nortons Internet 2005, 3com wireless adsl
router/modem

Everything has been running fine for the past year+ , download speeds
weren't stella but acceptable (maybe around 5-20k for a torrent)

However a couple of weeks ago things started slowing down - speedwise
I was getting only 2-3k if anything at all. Now I'm getting nothing,
ndada, zilch, nuddink, 0.00,

I've installed utorrent instead with no luck.

So the fault lies either:

a) My PC - to see if this was the case I installed utorrent on my
laptop which basically has no firewall, no AV or anything. No change
in download speed.

b) my 3com ADSL wireless modem/router. I've disabled the firewall on
this with no luck. I haven't tried port forwarding yet (not sure if I
understand it as it says I have to set a static IP address)

c) Slingshot - perhaps they're traffic shaping but surely not to the
extent I'm experiencing.

My normal surfing speed seems ok - not as fast as it has been
especially over the peak periods but still ok

Any suggestions?

 

Simple P2P links are being blocked and Torrent sites are being shut down and users are now being
logged.


Try eMule..

 

Get rid of Slingshot and Nortons.

 

Unless you have upnp, then you must port forward to get any speed from a
torrent.

http://www.portforward.com

 

Is telecom shaping traffic again? I am on Xtra and uTorrent has not
been able to connect for over 1 week now. I have Port Forwarding setup
and the speed has been good, very good. Now nothing. I have tested by
using a very active torrent but still nothing.

 

Telecon/Xtra has not stopped squashing P2P traffic.

Telecon/Xtra restricts traffic on all ports except possibly http/https.

This is because Telecom is not interested in providing a good service at a
fair price - only an adequate service at a high price.

 

Jonathan Walker wrote:

*snip*

And this makes them different from other NZ ISPs in which particular way?