News server dead

09-01-2006, 09:34

Seems like the NG's have died again, stopped yesterday and now it is stop start although mostly stop.

sleepless · 09-01-2006, 17:51

Agree, they are quite poor at the moment.

grubbymitts · 10-01-2006, 05:25

getting the same problem on premium news servers as well, seems like NTL is borking access.

basil · 10-01-2006, 06:46

yer recommend newshosting.com

10-01-2006, 08:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by grubbymitts

getting the same problem on premium news servers as well, seems like NTL is borking access.

Funny that. I get full speed on Newshosting.

ChutneyFerret · 10-01-2006, 12:34

Agreed - the NTL speeds have been awful just recently. I'm hoping it's just a coincidence that this happens just as they remove the cap from 1mb and 2mb customer and that NTL aren't going to throttle newsgroup access in future.

I am contemplating trying a proper usenet supplier for a month or so until NTL get their servers sorted (or not) and Newshosting look like the best deal. There have been a few people here posting that they heard NTL and Newshosting don't get along too well, but only the original poster has first hand experience of it and several others say they're using it no problems. Anyone else actually experienced problems with Newshosting or can point me towards other people that have (maybe in other threads or other sites?)

Cheers.

mcmanic · 12-01-2006, 14:50

http://www.usenetserver.com/ is fine and cheap, been using them for 3 years now, they usually have 1 major outage a year, but its never really been a problem for me

IanUK · 12-01-2006, 15:23

NTL Newsserver completely dead now, doesn't even connect

grubbymitts · 13-01-2006, 07:47

eeek. NewsHosting works great for me. Thanks Bill C (among others) for the headsup on that one.

www.newshosting.com

Sherlock614 · 13-01-2006, 16:26

Recent Newshosting joinee here also

Can't fault the service or speed so far, very impressed

(Thanks also to Mr SnoopZ from me)

Chicken · 13-01-2006, 21:09

NTL newsgroups have gone dead for me today. No response. Nothing at all. Not a sausage. Bog all.

grubbymitts · 13-01-2006, 21:27

seems to be working now, although it appears to be slow in receiving the files that are propagating across Usenet.

Swipe · 15-01-2006, 09:25

The news server is still dead for me

Questor · 15-01-2006, 14:30

News servers are alive but not well. The headers download ok but the d/l's are "bursty" and keep stalling and restarting (been like this for about a month).

iain_herts · 15-01-2006, 14:54

for £8.50 why dont u sign up with newshosting unlimited downloads IMHO this is far better than NTL can ever offer i only used the NTL newsgroups wen i first started and then they were so bad so went for a payed 1 with giga news and new change to newshosting.