My First Time Experience With NewsGroups

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BDylanLUVR

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Well it's not as difficult as it first appeared, but I'm very unimpressed by the speeds I've been getting. I am using Astraweb's 1 Mbit $10 a month account. It took me about 40 or 45 minutes to download 300 megs. I never went over 125 k/bs. I'll keep at it though. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. At least it was a consistent speed. If I had been downloading a torrent with very low seeds, it would have taken much longer. Then again it would have been much quicker if I downloaded 300 megs using Rapidshare.

What were your first experiences with Newsgroups like?
 
Personally I think it is a shame the NSP have to resort to such silly means to hook a punter. Usenet IMHO should max your connection out. I think providers actually damage usenets reputation. Especially when it has to contend with the likes of noob friendly rapidhare.:01:

Stick with usenet son learn to love it. I did and I have a premium RS account also. Best of both if I had to choose I would ditch the RS but we all are individuals.
 
not really, some people actually want that speed.... most people who use usent are a little versed with file size to download speed ratios




Herrick said:
I am using Astraweb's 1 Mbit $10 a month account.
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1mb is the speed....
[SIZE=+1]1 kilobyte = 0.0009765625 megabyte[/SIZE]



u are looking for the unlimited acc. message astraweb's customer service im sure they can help u switch over to the unlimited acc
 
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