Pipex DSL and newsgroups

I've just had Pipex ADSL xtreme500 switched on. Whilst the net and mail
access is fine the news.dsl.pipex newsgroup server is horribly slow - it
brings the headers up instantly but takes some seconds to bring up the
messages.

With Virgin there was a 'binary free' news server that was much quicker than
the one they normally pointed you towards. Any equivalent for Pipex?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:13:26 -0000, "Anthony James"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've just had Pipex ADSL xtreme500 switched on. Whilst the net and mail
>access is fine the news.dsl.pipex newsgroup server is horribly slow - it
>brings the headers up instantly but takes some seconds to bring up the
>messages.
>
>With Virgin there was a 'binary free' news server that was much quicker than
>the one they normally pointed you towards. Any equivalent for Pipex?

Yes, news-text.dial.pipex.com

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"Anthony James" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've just had Pipex ADSL xtreme500 switched on. Whilst the net and mail
> access is fine the news.dsl.pipex newsgroup server is horribly slow - it
> brings the headers up instantly but takes some seconds to bring up the
> messages.
>
> With Virgin there was a 'binary free' news server that was much quicker
than
> the one they normally pointed you towards. Any equivalent for Pipex?
>
>


There are text-only servers at:

news-text.dial.pipex.com

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:47:29 -0000, "Kevin Bean"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>There are text-only servers at:
>
> news-text.dial.pipex.com

Beat you :-)

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"Anthony James" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've just had Pipex ADSL xtreme500 switched on. Whilst the net and mail
> access is fine the news.dsl.pipex newsgroup server is horribly slow - it
> brings the headers up instantly but takes some seconds to bring up the
> messages.
>
> With Virgin there was a 'binary free' news server that was much quicker
than
> the one they normally pointed you towards. Any equivalent for Pipex?
>

I also have Pipex ADSL at home and find the slow NG infuriating. Can
anyone recommend an altenative news reader?



James H

"J Houston" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I also have Pipex ADSL at home and find the slow NG infuriating. Can
> anyone recommend an altenative news reader?

You can register for http://news.individual.net (free) - its text only.

Regards
Sunil

"King Queen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:47:29 -0000, "Kevin Bean"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >There are text-only servers at:
> >
> > news-text.dial.pipex.com
>
> Beat you :-)
>
I've switched to text-only news server and it's much faster. The longest I
had to wait for a message to appear was around 10 secs, usually it's
instantaneous, not like 2 min I had to wait with usual Pipex news server!

Alec

Gives the impression that they are recording information or checking up on
all the binary news group users and their activity.

"Sunil Sood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "J Houston" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bqkikn$rau$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I also have Pipex ADSL at home and find the slow NG infuriating. Can
> > anyone recommend an altenative news reader?
>
> You can register for http://news.individual.net (free) - its text only.
>
> Regards
> Sunil
>
>

"aj" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Gives the impression that they are recording information or checking up on
> all the binary news group users and their activity.

hmm - what does?

Regards
Sunil

>
> hmm - what does?
>
the pause in between clicking on a posting and it begining to dowload.

if not why does it not happen with the non-binary server on the same
postings? (like this ng)