On 01 Sep 2009 05:45:41 GMT, JimB0ss (no@spam.org) wrote:
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>Hubchy, no idea what NNTP etc. means, can only say about the speed.
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>IMO, if your pipe is under 20 Mb/s you shouldn't worry at all -- you'll get 100% capacity any time
>at both Giganews and Astraweb. Friends with 50-60-100 Mb/s pipes were sometimes bitching about
>'low speed' during busy hours (60-70% capacity). Yeah, I know.
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>Reliability is perfect with both of them. If you REALLY wanna stretch the definition of
>nitpicking, I can recall maybe once a month both of them were unavailable for 15-20 min.
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>Nobody ever said anything about the amount of data you DL, even it's in TBs. So unlimited it is.
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>I was with Giganews until the last year. Then euro/dollar went up 30% within a year. So I went for
>Astraweb, initially being skeptical 'cos they offered MUCH lower prices. However, the service was
>EXACTLY the same in terms of retention and speed. So now I only wish I went there sooner. No
>difference in speed, retention and quality of tech/billing support (both excellent), except
>Giganews has this shiny new website.
>
>J
Many thanks for your helpful comments. Ah, how nice it would be in my
part of the world to regularly get up to 5MB/s. We have been promised
much faster speeds in the near future - when cable is extensively
laid.
One weird thing about Astraweb - they don't make their $11 offer at
their main website - you have to go through a site in the Netherlands.
I wonder why.
Re: NNTP - Wikipedia says that: ' The Network News Transfer Protocol
or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading
and posting Usenet articles (aka netnews), as well as transferring
news among news servers.'
I've mainly thought of NNTP as denoting the way that Usenet looks, as
distinct from the World Wide Web. No GUI or 'nice' graphics that you
get via a browser like Internet Explorer - just mountains of
plain-text headers which need to be read. On the other hand, it is
nice that Usenet remains largely unknown to many people. As it is it
is very annoying to have to work around spam, sporge flooders and
trolls in some groups - although not this one, I'd hasten to add! Just
golden posts and nice altruistic people.
Regards, Hubchy
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