I must admit that since I joined the trial there has been a great improvement in the newsgroup service I have received.
The connection to the server has been a lot more reliable and faster.Posting and downloads have been much better. There still appear to be some downloads where one of the parts is missing,mainly the larger,multi-part downloads but hopefully that can be improved.
Header downloads now activate virtually automatically as I switch from group to group,which didn't happen before and they are much faster.
I also used to have problems connecting to the server late at night e.g. 10.30pm onwards and put this down to increased usage by NTL users but this seems a lot better too.
So well done NTL!!

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