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Old 23-10-2003, 21:29   #2
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Re: Slow if not Stopped Newsgroups

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Originally Posted by MartinW
Hi I subscribe to a Newsprovider in the states.Come 4pm everthing slows down bigtime (from 120 Ks to abot 4-10) This also happens for my friend who uses another provider, and also if you use NTLs newsgroups.Been like this for a few days now...any idea whats happening

TIA

M
depends - NTL's newsgroups, are generally very unreliable - however, when they do work, they are very good?

try

text.news.ntlworld.com

if you are subscribing to a US provider of an http link to a news server the speed issue could be due to loads of things - including their end?
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