PIPEX Newsgroups - Any GOOD?

news.ntlworld.com wrote:
> Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!
>
> Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
> Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
> Any others considered of course.
>

Pipex groups were rubbish when I left them a month ago.

Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!

Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
Any others considered of course.

D.

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:40:20 GMT, "Deag" <(E-Mail Removed)>
strung together this:

>Pipex groups were rubbish when I left them a month ago.
>
They're fine here. You were probably on the binary server, which is
absolute donkey spunk. The text only ones are much quicker.
--

SJW
A.C.S. Ltd

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:31:51 GMT, "news.ntlworld.com"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!
>
>Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
>Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
>Any others considered of course.
>
>D.
>


You will get lots of complaints about Pipex newsgroups, but for some
odd reason, I find them just fine.

For text only stuff, use the text only server.

news-text.dsl.pipex.com

Moves very quickly here.

If you want to get at binaries, just be patient. People moan about
waiting a second or so between messages. But the stuff that I go for,
mp3 "bootlegs" and off-air recordings, are pretty big and the gap
between messages is much smaller than the download time. So just get
on with something else. You have to be pretty obsessive to be sitting
there watching a download meter for an mp3 file.

The files stay on the server for quite a while. So let it do its thing
overnight. Isn't that what broadband is for.

I have not tried movie downloads, which seems to be the cause of some
of these complaints.

MK




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"news.ntlworld.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:rkXGc.339$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!
>
> Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
> Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
> Any others considered of course.
>
> D.
>
>
Can't comment on Pipex, but been with Zen for ages and there news server has
become very good of late, bit pricey at £28pm inc VAT for 512k but they say
retention is 7 days on most binaries stuff, don't know about 7 days but I
have grabbed stuff 5 days old with no problems, plus contract is very short
so if your not happy move.

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:40:20 GMT, "Deag" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>news.ntlworld.com wrote:
>> Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!
>>
>> Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
>> Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
>> Any others considered of course.
>>
>
>Pipex groups were rubbish when I left them a month ago.
>
still rubbish now i'm leaving this week


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JERRY

I agree - the binary ones are rubbish - but I don't need them.. I use the
Pipex text newsgroups and there are great :-)
"JERRY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:40:20 GMT, "Deag" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >news.ntlworld.com wrote:
> >> Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!
> >>
> >> Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
> >> Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
> >> Any others considered of course.
> >>
> >
> >Pipex groups were rubbish when I left them a month ago.
> >
> still rubbish now i'm leaving this week
>
>
> Please remove -REMOVE- to reply
>
> JERRY

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:50:55 +0100, JERRY <(E-Mail Removed)>
strung together this:

>>Pipex groups were rubbish when I left them a month ago.
>>
>still rubbish now i'm leaving this week
>
Not all of them, the binary groups are absolute crap, if you want text
only then Pipex has very good text only servers.
--

SJW
A.C.S. Ltd

Yes their newsgroups are shit! They are so slow to appear on screen when
you click onn a thread. Can take anything from 1 minute to 3 mins!!! Pipex
are aware of this and have been for months now but no fix as yet.


"Deag" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> news.ntlworld.com wrote:
> > Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!
> >
> > Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
> > Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
> > Any others considered of course.
> >
>
> Pipex groups were rubbish when I left them a month ago.
>
>

"Jim" <luckyjim(unowhat2remove)@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "news.ntlworld.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:rkXGc.339$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Be getting BB soon, Hurrah!!
> >
> > Anyone have any opinions on which ISP's has the best newsgroup access.
> > Looking firstly at PIPEX as their deal suits me - 512d/l & no limit.
> > Any others considered of course.
> >
> > D.
> >
> >
> Can't comment on Pipex, but been with Zen for ages and there news server
has
> become very good of late, bit pricey at £28pm inc VAT for 512k but they
say
> retention is 7 days on most binaries stuff, don't know about 7 days but I
> have grabbed stuff 5 days old with no problems, plus contract is very
short
> so if your not happy move.
>
>

Thanks - maybe I 'll NOT be looking at PIPEX then.