- News Groups on Broadband
- Posted by TheScullster on July 3rd, 2007
Looking at tarifs etc on our one-and-only broadband supplier web site
(Karoo), they are stating that part of their management strategy is to
throttle the use of newsgroups.
Why do these use such high band width?
Is it because some users subscribe to hundreds of groups?
If I only subscribe to say 6 groups, will that still represent high
bandwidth - if so, why?
TIA
Phil
- Posted by Alex Wilson on July 3rd, 2007
"TheScullster" <phil@dropthespam.com> wrote in message
news:4LOdnWSLVocc9xfbRVnyjgA@eclipse.net.uk...
usually faster and more reliable than torrents.(though not as easy to use)
Alex
- Posted by Owain on July 3rd, 2007
TheScullster wrote:
*Text* newsgroups (like all of uk.*) are okay - its the 'binary'
newsgroups that get used for swapping mucky photos and cracked copies of
Vista that use up lots of bandwidth.
Unless your text news groups are very high volume you'd not be that
likely to notice throttling much - usenet propagation isn't real-time anyay.
Owain
- Posted by TheScullster on July 3rd, 2007
"Alex Wilson" wrote
But what is the binary bit about?
Phil
- Posted by Mike K on July 3rd, 2007
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:05:55 +0100, "TheScullster"
<phil@dropthespam.com> wrote:
read of this for more info:
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=1
Regards,
Mike K
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- Posted by TheScullster on July 4th, 2007
"Mike K" wrote
Thanks to all posters
Believe it or not, I am in no way a news group newbie - been using them for
at least 5 years.
As I am not a download/music/dvd junkie, anything but the text based
information groups have missed my radar completely.
Phil
