Usenet & P2P on Broadband

To Russell (sorry, I deleted the messages!)

Thanks for the reply.

Do Pipex offer full binary newsgroup access?

When you say slow, what causes that, is it their servers or just the
contention ratio/users?

Thanks again for any info.

John

> When you say slow, what causes that, is it their servers or just the
> contention ratio/users?

Their news server seems to run as fast as a 386 with a 1200baud modem :-}

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Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> > When you say slow, what causes that, is it their servers or just the
> > contention ratio/users?
>
> Their news server seems to run as fast as a 386 with a 1200baud modem :-}
>
Its probably a spectrun with an acoustic coupler :-)

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Martin

> > Their news server seems to run as fast as a 386 with a 1200baud modem :-}
> Its probably a spectrun with an acoustic coupler :-)

I`ve seen (and used !) a BBC with an acoustic coupler, but never a
spectrum :-}

Come to think of it, did the Spec have *any* networking capability ?
(a cassette recorder doesn`t count ;-) )

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> > > Their news server seems to run as fast as a 386 with a 1200baud modem
:-}
> > Its probably a spectrun with an acoustic coupler :-)
>
> I`ve seen (and used !) a BBC with an acoustic coupler, but never a
> spectrum :-}
>
> Come to think of it, did the Spec have *any* networking capability ?
> (a cassette recorder doesn`t count ;-) )
>
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dunno.

can't remember it having it as standard, but i'm sure there were some
multiface type things that'd help out here.

Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> > > Their news server seems to run as fast as a 386 with a 1200baud modem
:-}
> > Its probably a spectrun with an acoustic coupler :-)
>
> I`ve seen (and used !) a BBC with an acoustic coupler, but never a
> spectrum :-}
>
> Come to think of it, did the Spec have *any* networking capability ?
> (a cassette recorder doesn`t count ;-) )
>

No, the bare spectrum didn't, but I also had an external dual wafadrive that
came with a parallel and a serial port. This was used with an acoustic
coupler to connect to some sort of BBS (I forget the details).

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Colin Wilson wrote:

>>When you say slow, what causes that, is it their servers or just the
>>contention ratio/users?
>
>
> Their news server seems to run as fast as a 386 with a 1200baud modem :-}
>
So few people who use the Internat use Usenet, ISPs probably don't see
the point wasting resources on it.

In article <bkp0tk$48jff$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Steve H <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> Colin Wilson wrote:
> >>When you say slow, what causes that, is it their servers or just the
> >>contention ratio/users?
> >
> > Their news server seems to run as fast as a 386 with a 1200baud modem :-}
> >
> So few people who use the Internat use Usenet, ISPs probably don't see
> the point wasting resources on it.

That'll be why there are never ever any new articles to read, then.
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:28:19 +0100, "John Frew"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Do Pipex offer full binary newsgroup access?
As far as I am aware, the majority of UK ISPs have a crap newsfeed. I
signed up with Teranews Free about 18 months agao and it's fast and
very complete.

The only cost is a once-only $3.95 setup fee! So go along to
www.teranews.com/ and give it a whirl!

Phil.

P.S. You can subscribe to a multi-megabyte download service too. I
forget what this costs.

Sam Nelson wrote:


> That'll be why there are never ever any new articles to read, then.

I know plenty of people who use the internet, but hardly any who even
know what Usenet is, let alone go there.

It's mainly IM and IRC these days.