Eclipse anyone use them?

Does anyone here have broadband with Eclipse if so what are they like?
I have been looking at their website earlier and i like they way you
can up the speed of your connection from your standard connection
using their flex broadband if you want to.

I have looked around the site and i don't see any mention of
newsgroups, do they have any newservers?

Thanks in advance

du.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed) writes
>Does anyone here have broadband with Eclipse if so what are they like?
>I have been looking at their website earlier and i like they way you
>can up the speed of your connection from your standard connection
>using their flex broadband if you want to.

I suggest Flex to one of my colleagues for our local Harbour Authority -
he's been happy with it for both home and office use, and so have a
couple of his colleagues I gather.
>
>I have looked around the site and i don't see any mention of
>newsgroups, do they have any newservers?

Dunno - we really don't encourage the staff to go roaming usenet in
office time :-)

>
>Thanks in advance
>
>du.

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robert w hall

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:57:09 +0000, in article
<(E-Mail Removed)> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Does anyone here have broadband with Eclipse if so what are they like?

Very good, solid performance and very few outages.

> I have been looking at their website earlier and i like they way you
> can up the speed of your connection from your standard connection
> using their flex broadband if you want to.

Yes, you can do that, although I only have 512k fixed speed at present.

>
> I have looked around the site and i don't see any mention of
> newsgroups, do they have any newservers?

Yes, supplied by Giganews, 2 connections maximum at any one time.

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Brian Morrison

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Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:57:09 +0000, in article
> <(E-Mail Removed)> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here have broadband with Eclipse if so what are they
>> like?
>
> Very good, solid performance and very few outages.

Seconded, very pleased with them, and excellent customer service whenever I
used them.

>
>> I have been looking at their website earlier and i like they way you
>> can up the speed of your connection from your standard connection
>> using their flex broadband if you want to.
>
> Yes, you can do that, although I only have 512k fixed speed at
> present.
>

Which is essentially a throttled 1Mbit, very good IMHO.

>>
>> I have looked around the site and i don't see any mention of
>> newsgroups, do they have any newservers?
>
> Yes, supplied by Giganews, 2 connections maximum at any one time.

A bit too slow for my liking, and some posts go missing, enough to make me
switch to individual.net.

HTH,
Chris.

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:44:41 -0000, "Christos Demetriou"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>A bit too slow for my liking, and some posts go missing, enough to make me
>switch to individual.net.

As previously mentioned they use a Giganews feed, limited to two
channels, each capped at 16 kB/s. Not too fast.

However, I have not found any problems with binary posts going missing
and completion seems perfect with a retention of about 45 days!

I usually leave it downloading at 2 x 16 kB/s all day which leaves me
about 70% of my capacity available for other things.

HTH.

JB.