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Originally Posted by David F
An interesting note on newgroups was having a look at options for the future and found good old easynews has now got a 150 gig for $29.99 using their zipmanager and http downloads would stop the throttling surely. Still expensive but a viable option if you ask me
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Easynews staff have stated on their support group that VM are known to specifically throttle Easynews connections. Having said that I get full speed via the NNTP server but around 10meg using web + FDM + SSL. Not that it bothers me, nothing is ever that urgent when downloading from usenet and I prefer just downloading a single unrared/unpared file than using NNTP.
Been with them for over 6 years and I get a loyalty bonus and the gigs roll-over so if I can get something from the improved VM news server which doesn't appear to be throtlled, I use that first.