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View Full Version : Was thinking of going with Nildram and wondered are the nwesgroups anygood?
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sparkymarky Oct 05, 2003, 10:07 AM I was thinking of going with either Nildram or Pipex and wondered how good the newsgroups were? Overall which isp is the better one for downloading and online games? thanks duffy90210 Oct 05, 2003, 12:52 PM Moving to Consumer forum... hood1971 Oct 05, 2003, 06:25 PM My work has nildram adsl, and I tried their newsgroup server a while ago and found it to be useless. Did not have most good binary groups and the ones it did have the retention, completion and speed were terrible. This was a year ago, so maybe things have changed but I doubt it. Haku Oct 05, 2003, 06:44 PM I got pipex and there newsgroups are alright ,Good completion and carry most binary groups.Speed is normally ok, around 40kb/s,but only about 2 days retention.At the moment the newserver seems to be playing up only 5kb/s ,but hopefully that will fix it self.I normally just use it as a backup server and use claranews as my main. sparkymarky Oct 05, 2003, 07:01 PM hmm so basically then if i want a decnt newsgroup server i am better off paying for one then RetroFlux Oct 06, 2003, 06:43 AM goto adslguide.org lots of info on there. Im with zen dont know about there news groups cos i dont use em but they have good download speeds. there is a table of the top 10 isps for speed on the adslguide. philmeehan Oct 06, 2003, 06:15 PM If you want decent d/l speeds from newsgroups, then you are most definitely better off paying for a subscription to one of the big providers. I used to use Giganews when I downloaded from newsgroups, I found them to be very good. sparkymarky Oct 07, 2003, 12:32 PM thanks I think thats what i will do Subby Oct 13, 2003, 03:54 AM Nildram was allowing use of two news servers. One inhouse called mercury and also Supernews which is on the west-coast of US. They have been slowly reducing the usability of Supernews, which had high completion rates, but only 4-5 days retention on the binary groups. They always allowed only 2 connections. Then they capped each connection to 128k. Now they are going to stop access to the binary groups on supernews altogether. This wouldn't be much of an issue if they had improved Mercury. Although to be honest, the last few things I have wanted have had 100% completion on Mercury. There is a thread on this at http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=nildram&Number=907983&page=3&view=expanded&sb=5&o=#Post907983 |