Newsgroups down

Cable Kabal · 17-08-2004, 20:15

Problems with newsgroups today - can download headers but not articles - anyone else experiencing this?

Edit - this should be in the broadband forum, sorry

zer0 · 18-08-2004, 02:28

yeah same here, damn annoying

greencreeper · 18-08-2004, 02:53

Working fine for me - even the newsgroups that usually give me trouble. The only server these days is news.cable.ntlworld.com

Matth · 18-08-2004, 15:31

Seems to be ok - watch out if you have anything which does local DNS caching, as if you draw a dodgy server from the pool of 8 or 9, you can end up stuck with it for a while.

zer0 · 18-08-2004, 16:08

im using news.cable.ntlworld.com and cant get anything from alt.binaries.multimedia.babylon5

says article isnt on server but the header is shown as complete

18-08-2004, 16:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by zer0

im using news.cable.ntlworld.com and cant get anything from alt.binaries.multimedia.babylon5

says article isnt on server but the header is shown as complete

blimey thats a big group - over 159,000 headers

I'm using news.ntlworld.com

- which post are you after?

DrAwesome · 18-08-2004, 21:55

Bad retension = NTL Newsgroup feeds.

And wasnt it so long ago NTL were trialing some new hardware to fix the ongoing NTL Newsgroup prpblems? does anyone know if the NTL newsgroup trial has ended?

zer0 · 18-08-2004, 21:58

Babylon 5 Season 2 Ep 18 ,19, 20 ,21 & 22
had a go with news.ntlworld.com but didnt get a stable connection

greencreeper · 18-08-2004, 21:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrAwesome

Bad retension = NTL Newsgroup feeds.

And wasnt it so long ago NTL were trialing some new hardware to fix the ongoing NTL Newsgroup prpblems? does anyone know if the NTL newsgroup trial has ended?

As far as I can remember, having taken part, the trial was a software one - testing better software. Typhoon versus Hurricane I think

AFAIK the software has been rolled out.

zer0 · 18-08-2004, 22:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrAwesome

Bad retension = NTL Newsgroup feeds.

And wasnt it so long ago NTL were trialing some new hardware to fix the ongoing NTL Newsgroup prpblems? does anyone know if the NTL newsgroup trial has ended?

i thought they had rolled out the updates since its been so good the last 4-5 months or so

DrAwesome · 19-08-2004, 12:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by greencreeper

As far as I can remember, having taken part, the trial was a software one - testing better software. Typhoon versus Hurricane I think

AFAIK the software has been rolled out.

Software

I thought NTL had already spent thousands on Hardware & the trial involved testing the hardware to see if it fell over with the amount of customer access

hmmm

ynwa · 19-08-2004, 15:31

The trial was completed and rolled out but a waste of time. Im still having to pay for a news provider.

However, as part of the upgrades, ntl were to source news service out to another company. Not sure of the progress of this.

greencreeper · 19-08-2004, 23:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrAwesome

Software

I thought NTL had already spent thousands on Hardware & the trial involved testing the hardware to see if it fell over with the amount of customer access

hmmm

Yes you're right

I checked with the emails I have and it was a new platform - hardware and software. The trial was on and off like something that's on and off frequently

I think I may not have even completed the questionnaire - I got fed up of it. Managed the Broadband Medic trial though - and what a trial that was. Like Krypton Factor

Had to format my PC afterwards.

nmcog · 23-08-2004, 20:37

the new news service works well for me and i average 4GB/day of leeching.

i use news.AstraWeb.com & news.Octanews.com for fills

thanks NTL i love you!

mutty_w4rez · 25-09-2004, 02:22

hey, whats the best ntl news server now then? I currently use news.ntlworld.com and I don't get all of the groups, some of which are very good. Basically which has best % rate for groups and headers?

Thanks.