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Years ago (well, a century at least) I was using newsgroups almost religiously for some technical and programming stuff. Of course, back then I didn't even dare to dream about binary groups because dialup speed and a pay-per-minute ISP reduced this to wishful thinking at best. So I have a general knowledge of the Usenet but no experience with binary groups - and today's variety of commercial news servers. On to my questions:

Are completion rates a real issue (in general or with certain providers) or can this often advertised
 
Daniel said:
Years ago (well, a century at least) I was using newsgroups almost religiously for some technical and programming stuff. Of course, back then I didn't even dare to dream about binary groups because dialup speed and a pay-per-minute ISP reduced this to wishful thinking at best. So I have a general knowledge of the Usenet but no experience with binary groups - and today's variety of commercial news servers. On to my questions:

Are completion rates a real issue (in general or with certain providers) or can this often advertised
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I have never been able to get max speed from With UsenetServer.com and NewsHosting.com and their supposedly European servers. Tried 3 different ISP's.

I only get max speed from Giganews EU server.

This might be "bad luck" in Norway, but it's my experience (and yes I checked with support;))

I also feel the support is better @ Giganews. Faster response times, and they nearly always know something, like when an ISP has trouble etc. When I had trouble after moving back to Norway they ts'ed everything and checked things up so I could phone my ISP and "tell them the truth" hehe.
 
always wondered what is the point of, say, 20 connections

I was downloading today, and for some reason with Giganews ('unable to recognise' message) only 3 connections worked - still got max. download

Anyone know why?

Also, only have ever had these 'recognise' errors with Giganews - they mention then in the FAQ's on their website, but they suggest 'just wait'

Reckon I'll stay with Giganews for the low monthly fee fore the next month or so, and then go back to Usenet-News.net - they're half the price, great speeds and I think they've jusy increased retentions to 100 days
 
Well, Giganews seems to be out of the question, even though your reviews of it are encouraging. It looks like I'll be trying Newshosting because they allow me to force the use of a certain backbone - in this case Cogent, which my provider always had a very good connection with. While I'm not happy with their US based server, one month of testing and trying can't hurt ;)

I'm also glad to see that at least some of you reach your desired speeds with less connections, that certainly encourages me and calms my previous concerns.

Thanks for the recount of your experiences, they were certainly helpful in getting a small glimpse of today's world of newsgroups.

Oh and before I forget to mention it: torrentguy, I'm from Europe and don't own a credit card, simply because there has never been a need for it. Most local and European shops accept bank transfers and those who don't generally work with PayPal. I know that this isn't representative for the rest of the world but it also isn't practical for me when I already know that I'd only need a credit card for this single purpose.
 
the speed at giganews is nothing special, more (cheaper) providers have uncapped speed too so using that as a reason why giganews is the best (which it isn't imo) is not realistic
 
groggy said:
the speed at giganews is nothing special, more (cheaper) providers have uncapped speed too so using that as a reason why giganews is the best (which it isn't imo) is not realistic
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The point isn't "uncapped" speed, It's my actual speed.
 
MultiForce said:
The point isn't "uncapped" speed, It's my actual speed.
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was actually targeted at torrentguy's post because he said

GigaNews is no doubt the best and everyone knows that ... I've seen people on giganews that download at 100Mbit speed!
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i've seen people getting 10 megabytes a second at a dutch server that i'm using, I'm just saying that giganews is highly overrated and overpriced. and highly is an understatement.

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/7296/xsnewsey8.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2593/speedru8.jpg

he's getting 11 megabyte a second on the upload server.
 
groggy said:
i've seen people getting 10 megabytes a second at a dutch server that i'm using, I'm just saying that giganews is highly overrated and overpriced. and highly is an understatement.
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Amazing speeds, that's true without a doubt. I do believe that xsnews.nl is an exception though. As far as I saw on their website, their userbase is limited to the Netherlands and Belgium. It's very likely that national data transfer is cheaper than international one, therefore more competitive prizes are no surprise.
 
7/1/2007: NewsHosting is proud to announce our new European server is up and ready for testing. Everyone is welcome to give it a try at news.ams.newshosting.com. Please send any questions or comments to [email protected] ;)

groggy said:
i've seen people getting 10 megabytes a second at a dutch server that i'm using, I'm just saying that giganews is highly overrated and overpriced. and highly is an understatement.

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/7296/xsnewsey8.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2593/speedru8.jpg

he's getting 11 megabyte a second on the upload server.
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It might be overpriced but giganews is still great, xsnews.nl is too :) I myself have never used them but ive heard good things about them. Both are capable of more than 100mbit :D http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/8862/100mbitgigapf4.jpg :P
 
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