Plus Net: New TEXT only Usenet server

Since Plus Net didn't bother to let everybody know (Why ?):
If you only use TEXT groups change your news server to:

text.usenet.plus.net

as fast as it used to be ;-)
Regards,
Martin

"Martin²" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:436c1aee$0$1469$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-
reader01.plus.net:

> Since Plus Net didn't bother to let everybody know (Why ?):
> If you only use TEXT groups change your news server to:
>
> text.usenet.plus.net
>
> as fast as it used to be ;-)
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
>

Thanks Martin!

It's taken forever to read the *.broadband groups headers - looking for
comments on apotential new ISP. That's much faster :-)

john

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Martin² wrote:

> Since Plus Net didn't bother to let everybody know (Why ?):
> If you only use TEXT groups change your news server to:
>
> text.usenet.plus.net
>
> as fast as it used to be ;-)

Thanks for that! It works just as you said, and it must be using the
same article numbers, beause my existing plusnet .newsrc seems to jive
just fine with it.

I had been reading a lot of whining about plusnet's network shaping
for usenet, but I had suspected all along that the slow response I was
getting from news.plus.net was *really* down to their server itself
being slow, which was why I have been using the campus news server
instead, even when I'm at home connected to plusnet. (However, the
campus server does not take alt.* groups).

Having seen the much better response from the above server, it's clear
that the network was not the limiting factor, after all. I might
start using the plusnet news server for non-alt groups too, we'll see.

Now that I've said something positive about plusnet, I suppose I'll
get howled down again by certain kiddies who are so keen to badmouth
plusnet - while apparently trying to disqualify any positive remarks
about it, discounting them as an attempt to tout for referral bonuses.
Well, my network connection is trouble-free, I don't mind saying so,
and I'm not asking for any referral bonuses. My only specific
complaint had been about their slow news server, and you seem to have
found an answer for that.

Strange - the only references I can find for text.usenet.plus.net were
some remarks from last year (i.e before I signed-up to plusnet) saying
that it was to be phased out. Does this mean they're phasing it (or a
replacement for it) back in? As long as it works, I'm not knocking
it.

cheers

On 5 Nov 2005 15:03, "Alan J. Flavell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Having seen the much better response from the above server, it's clear
>that the network was not the limiting factor, after all.

>Strange - the only references I can find for text.usenet.plus.net were

It's just one part of the same set of servers, but the Ellacoya traffic
shaping has a detrimental effect on most news services (usenet.plus.net
was timing out today, and Friday or Saturday, whenever it was I posted
in p.s.c-f about the news service being 'calmed' to a level it is quite
useless. I know they have had problems with those using a few GB a day
off the news servers, but they've certainly used the Ellacoya units to
mess *significantly* and then had the gall to ask users on Premier for
traceroutes etc, initially. I'm on Broadband Plus, which was designed
to have a poor handling for binaries, and my main gripe is that it is
*still* poor to useless even from 2 to 5 am when there's certainly a
bit of free bandwidth, according to their own traffic graphs... and
70+ GB of traffic (streaming audio and video services, since Usenet
was throttled to be worse than just sluggish) shows they can provide
me with data at full speed, at least some of the time. Peter M.