- Binary Newsgroups
- Posted by Phaedrus on July 20th, 2003
BT and Demon support binary newsgroups, are there any other ADSL ISP's that
do?
TIA
Joe
- Posted by TEQ on July 20th, 2003
"Phaedrus" <phaedrus@talk21.com> wrote in message
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BT?... Support binary newsgroups?...
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- Posted by not.sure on July 21st, 2003
"Phaedrus" <phaedrus@talk21.com> wrote in message
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PlusNet do, but their completion is abysmal (less than 50%).
They have been promising for ages that they are going to improve their
binary news service, and have supposedly purchased the extra hardware to
enable them to do this.
However, there seems to be an endless wait for this to happen.
- Posted by David Wade on July 21st, 2003
"Phaedrus" <phaedrus@talk21.com> wrote in message
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posts were missing parts.
I think if you want good binary news you will need to pay. What do you use
at present
- Posted by John Kirkland on July 21st, 2003
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:14:25 +0100, "Phaedrus" <phaedrus@talk21.com>
wrote:
You have one route: Pay for it.
Given current (full feed) unsenet traffic levels, and the fact that
basically all UK ISP's offer usenet as an "unsupported service",
that's the only option.
If you want it, pay for it.
--
John Kirkland
- Posted by Martyn Dewar on July 21st, 2003
"Phaedrus" <phaedrus@talk21.com> wrote in message
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Zen Internet support them (www.zenbroadband.com)
- Posted by Asylum on July 21st, 2003
"Phaedrus" <phaedrus@talk21.com> wrote in message
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Freeserve Broadband offer 613 Binary groups, unlimited Bandwidth transfer,
for £27.99 per month, showing only 198 seconds downtime this month, and 24/7
helpline, not the cheapest around, but reliable. No complaints from me in 14
monthes.
Andy.
- Posted by PlusNet Support Team on July 21st, 2003
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:23:42 +0100, "not.sure" <nobody@this.place>
wrote:
Hi There,
There is currently a thread on our discussion forum at ADSLGuide
regarding this subject. The last post I made explained why the delay
had occurred - Here's a snippet:
.....
As it stands, we are now completing the migration of primary equipment
from our old premises, which will act as a disaster recovery centre in
the future, to our new building. We intend to finish this before
embarking on further network upgrades.
This work will be completed within the next few weeks, at which point
we will be in a position where we can start pushing ahead with a
number of planned upgrades without fear that network changes will
leave our platform unstable, as may have happened had we not completed
things in the order we have.
I fully appreciate that this is something we said we would have
delivered by now and haven't yet done so. It is as frustrating for us
to have the equipment here and ready to go, however the needs of the
customer base as a whole have to take priority - The last thing any of
us want is any downtime...
.....
I hope to get a definitive timescale from the Network team for the
Usenet upgrades tomorrow and will make sure customers are updated via
the normal routes.
Regards,
Ian
--
| Ian Wild Unmetered & ADSL solutions
| Customer Support for Home & Business
| PlusNet Technologies Ltd. @ http://www.plus.net
+ ------- My Referrals - It pays to recommend PlusNet -------
- Posted by Johnny Too Bad on July 22nd, 2003
Can second that about FS new coverage. Includes binaries. Good completion. 3
day retention. Can only speak for warez groups though.
If you want better in terms of number of groups covered try Claranet. I
think theirs is the best news service in that respect from any ISP giving an
all-inclusive service. I speak from experience of many. I ended up back with
FS the last 18 months because they have the best all round news service and
general reliability, speed etc. My experience with Claranet was some 2 yrs
ago. I only left them because they were too slow to come up with a good
unmetered deal. The news service was excellent.
As other have said, the alternative is to go with a cheaper service and pay
for a news service seperately. But beware the cheapos - you get nothing for
free and in the end I'd pay the extra fiver per month for reliability (as I
do).
Decisions ... decisions ... :-¦
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