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![]() looking for the 'best' (= reliable + cheap-ish)broadband access deal (not cable) on a monthly basis. am starting from scratch- so is it worthwhile getting a 'deal' with everything thrown in? must have access to binary newsgroups (asked BT broadband- they donot host them) tia |
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![]() On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 00:03:38 +0000, Anon Ymous wrote: looking for the 'best' (= reliable + cheap-ish)broadband access deal (not cable) on a monthly basis. am starting from scratch- so is it worthwhile getting a 'deal' with everything thrown in? must have access to binary newsgroups (asked BT broadband- they donot host them) tia Demon provides binary newsgroups. Broadband 24.99 per month. see http://www.demon.net graham. |
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![]() Graham wrote: On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 00:03:38 +0000, Anon Ymous wrote: looking for the 'best' (= reliable + cheap-ish)broadband access deal (not cable) on a monthly basis. am starting from scratch- so is it worthwhile getting a 'deal' with everything thrown in? must have access to binary newsgroups (asked BT broadband- they donot host them) tia Demon provides binary newsgroups. Broadband 24.99 per month. see http://www.demon.net Not well. AIUI, a bit better than plusnet (plusnet has nearly all binaries with ten parts missing, demon just two) |
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![]() "Ian Stirling" wrote in message ... Not well. AIUI, a bit better than plusnet (plusnet has nearly all binaries with ten parts missing, demon just two) Hopefully by March 2004, PlusNet will have their new improved Usenet platform fully operational as promised, and aim to have the best binary completion of all UK ISPs. So for £21.99 pm, it would probably be the better deal. Quote from an announcement made yesterday: We would like to bring you up to date with our current progress and plans for our Usenet (Newsgroups) service. We are aware that, over the last few months, the service has deteriorated somewhat, as has been documented in the service status section of our portal. We recently took temporary measures to resolve a problem whereby delays were being experienced when posting new articles. The original problem was caused by the failure of our primary news server following a storage upgrade. As a result of the growth in demand for our Usenet service, primarily from heavy users of the ADSL service, the secondary server alone could not cope. The solution identified (involving the use of a proxy server) has resulted in a number of unforeseen issues, including a latency when viewing articles and downloading messages. We are now in a position where both Usenet servers are fully functional and during this week we will be moving back to our original two server configuration. This should resolve the current issues with regard to unresponsiveness of the server. What has now become apparent is that our existing Usenet platform is no longer capable of supporting the demands placed upon it. This is both as a result of the significant increase in our Broadband userbase and also because Usenet itself has continued to grow exponentially. A 'good' binary newsfeed now requires at least 700GB of new data per day. This data must be collected and stored by our news platform. The limitations of our current Usenet platform mean we cannot currently take this amount of news. We can now announce that a project is underway to overhaul our current Usenet platform. This will include the installation of higher specification equipment and additional servers. We will also be replacing the current Usenet server software (which we have used, without change, for some 5 years) with a newer, much more efficient, software solution. Work has already started on building the new Usenet platform and the estimated completion date for this is February 2004. Once the installation is completed, it will take a further month for the news-servers to collect complete article listings and as such our target date for launch of the new Usenet platform is March 2004. We believe our target will be easily achievable and work is already well underway, with much of the required equipment, ordered specifically for the overhaul, having been delivered already. Once the new platform is operational, we expect to offer a vastly improved Usenet service. While, as we have stated before, we do not aim to compete with the premium subscription based Usenet providers, we are confident that following the overhaul we will be able to offer a newsgroup service which is as good as, if not better than, any other provided by a UK ISP. |
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