PIPEX News (Usenet) Status

PIPEX News Status

Announcement Raised 13/10/05 at 17:00

Report:
At 11AM on 14th October access to news.dsl.pipex.com and
news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be unavailable as this service has been
replaced.

Symptoms:
Access to news.dsl.pipex.com and news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be
unavailable.

Actions:
Customers are advised to use the replacement news service, details of which
can be found at https://www.mypipex.net/solo/services/news

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:26:28 +0100, "Gestapo"
<(E-Mail Removed)> scrawled:

>PIPEX News Status
>
>Announcement Raised 13/10/05 at 17:00
>
>Report:
>At 11AM on 14th October access to news.dsl.pipex.com and
>news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be unavailable as this service has been
>replaced.
>
>Symptoms:
>Access to news.dsl.pipex.com and news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be
>unavailable.
>
>Actions:
>Customers are advised to use the replacement news service, details of which
>can be found at https://www.mypipex.net/solo/services/news
>
Interesting, I couldn't access either of the original servers as of
several weeks ago.
--
Stuart @ SJW Electrical

Please Reply to group

Gestapo wrote:
> PIPEX News Status
>
> Announcement Raised 13/10/05 at 17:00
>
> Report:
> At 11AM on 14th October access to news.dsl.pipex.com and
> news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be unavailable as this service has been
> replaced.
>
> Symptoms:
> Access to news.dsl.pipex.com and news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be
> unavailable.
>
> Actions:
> Customers are advised to use the replacement news service, details of which
> can be found at https://www.mypipex.net/solo/services/news
>
>

news-text.dial.pipex.com is still working and I'll be cheesed off if I
still can't use it if I request the 1meg peak 2meg off-peak account.

Andy.

Andy Furniss wrote:

> news-text.dial.pipex.com is still working and I'll be cheesed off if I
> still can't use it if I request the 1meg peak 2meg off-peak account.

Spoke too soon it's not resolving now, so it looks like gx networks will
have one less customer when I can be bothered to move.

Andy.

Andy Furniss wrote:
> Gestapo wrote:
>
>> PIPEX News Status
>>
>> Announcement Raised 13/10/05 at 17:00
>>
>> Report:
>> At 11AM on 14th October access to news.dsl.pipex.com and
>> news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be unavailable as this service has been
>> replaced.
>>
>> Symptoms:
>> Access to news.dsl.pipex.com and news-text.dsl.pipex.com will be
>> unavailable.
>>
>> Actions:
>> Customers are advised to use the replacement news service, details of
>> which
>> can be found at https://www.mypipex.net/solo/services/news
>>
>>
>
> news-text.dial.pipex.com is still working and I'll be cheesed off if I
> still can't use it if I request the 1meg peak 2meg off-peak account.
>
> Andy.

I just use nntp.dsl.pipex.com

andy

"Andy Furniss" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Andy Furniss wrote:
>
>> news-text.dial.pipex.com is still working and I'll be cheesed off if I
>> still can't use it if I request the 1meg peak 2meg off-peak account.
>
> Spoke too soon it's not resolving now, so it looks like gx networks will
> have one less customer when I can be bothered to move.

Whats wrong with using the replacement service?

Beck wrote:
> "Andy Furniss" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>Andy Furniss wrote:
>>
>>
>>>news-text.dial.pipex.com is still working and I'll be cheesed off if I
>>>still can't use it if I request the 1meg peak 2meg off-peak account.
>>
>>Spoke too soon it's not resolving now, so it looks like gx networks will
>>have one less customer when I can be bothered to move.
>
>
> Whats wrong with using the replacement service?
>
>

nntp.dsl.pipex.com was painfully slow (but uncapped) before I started
using the text only server. Judging by the slow header speed I've just
seen, it's not much better now that it(they) are 5GB free then pay-per gig.

The pipex solo products have gone for new customers their replacement
doesn't have ng access included, so if I want to change from solo to get
2meg off peak 1meg 6-12 for the same I pay for 1meg, I will have to pay
extra for access to possibly slow binary servers. When all I want is
text (I know I can pay news.individual.net) - but I can also get a
better price elsewhere for the amount of bandwidth I use.

Andy.

"Andy Furniss" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:_6Cdndy-(E-Mail Removed)...

> nntp.dsl.pipex.com was painfully slow (but uncapped) before I started
> using the text only server. Judging by the slow header speed I've just
> seen, it's not much better now that it(they) are 5GB free then pay-per
> gig.
>
> The pipex solo products have gone for new customers their replacement
> doesn't have ng access included, so if I want to change from solo to get
> 2meg off peak 1meg 6-12 for the same I pay for 1meg, I will have to pay
> extra for access to possibly slow binary servers. When all I want is text
> (I know I can pay news.individual.net) - but I can also get a better price
> elsewhere for the amount of bandwidth I use.

Quite a few isps changing service packages of late. Beginning to think
staying with BTYahoo is a safe option. At least I know where I stand with
them.

Beck wrote


> Quite a few isps changing service packages of late. Beginning to think
> staying with BTYahoo is a safe option. At least I know where I stand with
> them.
>

Silly sod. If a lot more people were to vote with their feet, ISPs
wouldn't get away with treating their customers like shit. Instead of
that, you're happy to bend over, grease your arse, paint a target on the
chocolate starfish and let yourself be shafted.

Beck wrote:
> "Andy Furniss" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:_6Cdndy-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > nntp.dsl.pipex.com was painfully slow (but uncapped) before I started
[snip]
Tonight the new server "nntp" is delivering about 3,000 bytes/sec. I
was getting more than 10 times that speed last week on the old ones.