New plusnet beta newsserver looking promising.

In recent weeks I've posted saying that plusnet are upgrading their
news servers.
It went live a bit ago, and has recently (the 12th) started to hit it's
stride, though stumbling a bit yesterday.

In terms of binary completeness, on a DVD and VCD group, a couple of
times in the past few days (when things have been working) the
binary completion has exceeded by several percent that of
news.usenetserver.com, and only been a fraction of a percent
behind news.giganews.com.

Tests over around 15000 headers, in a DVD and VCD group, over one day.

I added the DVD group, after the VCD group showed 100% completion once

Not yet replacing the existing server, but it is getting around 2.5 to
3 times more articles.

Ian Stirling wrote:

> In recent weeks I've posted saying that plusnet are upgrading their
> news servers.
> It went live a bit ago, and has recently (the 12th) started to hit it's
> stride, though stumbling a bit yesterday.
>
> In terms of binary completeness, on a DVD and VCD group, a couple of
> times in the past few days (when things have been working) the
> binary completion has exceeded by several percent that of
> news.usenetserver.com, and only been a fraction of a percent
> behind news.giganews.com.
>
> Tests over around 15000 headers, in a DVD and VCD group, over one day.
>
> I added the DVD group, after the VCD group showed 100% completion once
>
> Not yet replacing the existing server, but it is getting around 2.5 to
> 3 times more articles.

Is news.plus.net the new server or the old one? I tried using
beta.news.plus.net last week, and it had problems letting me post....
Do I have to change anything to use the new server?

Black Shuck <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Ian Stirling wrote:
>
>> In recent weeks I've posted saying that plusnet are upgrading their
>> news servers.
>> It went live a bit ago, and has recently (the 12th) started to hit it's
>> stride, though stumbling a bit yesterday.
>>
>> In terms of binary completeness, on a DVD and VCD group, a couple of
>> times in the past few days (when things have been working) the
>> binary completion has exceeded by several percent that of
>> news.usenetserver.com, and only been a fraction of a percent
>> behind news.giganews.com.
>>
>> Tests over around 15000 headers, in a DVD and VCD group, over one day.
>>
>> I added the DVD group, after the VCD group showed 100% completion once
>>
>> Not yet replacing the existing server, but it is getting around 2.5 to
>> 3 times more articles.
>
> Is news.plus.net the new server or the old one? I tried using
> beta.news.plus.net last week, and it had problems letting me post....
> Do I have to change anything to use the new server?

You shouldn't.
It's broken in various ways, that tend to get fixed as they get noticed.
That's why it's a beta.
beta.usenet.plus.net is I think the name you'r supposed to use.

On Sat, 15 May 2004 19:51:55 +0100, Black Shuck <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> Ian Stirling wrote:
>
>> In recent weeks I've posted saying that plusnet are upgrading their
>> news servers.
>> It went live a bit ago, and has recently (the 12th) started to hit it's
>> stride, though stumbling a bit yesterday.
>>
>> In terms of binary completeness, on a DVD and VCD group, a couple of
>> times in the past few days (when things have been working) the
>> binary completion has exceeded by several percent that of
>> news.usenetserver.com, and only been a fraction of a percent behind
>> news.giganews.com.
>>
>> Tests over around 15000 headers, in a DVD and VCD group, over one day.
>>
>> I added the DVD group, after the VCD group showed 100% completion once
>>
>>
>> Not yet replacing the existing server, but it is getting around 2.5 to
>> 3 times more articles.
>
> Is news.plus.net the new server or the old one? I tried using
> beta.news.plus.net last week, and it had problems letting me post.... Do
> I have to change anything to use the new server?

Hi,

beta.usenet.plus.net is the address to use. Make sure you don't select the
authentication option in your news client as it doesn't need a username
and password to connect to it.

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