Newsgroups Trial Resumes

[Pointman]

Originally Posted by ynwa

Me too. just signed for Astraweb. Just been waiting too long for NTL to sort this, and there seems to be no sign of them doing that. The trial has been a big flop for me.

It's worth mentioning that in our "Trial Closure" e-mail, we did mention that there will be additional hardware going in in early March (like the 1st week in March) which should resolve any outstanding issues.

It would be great if all of you would be willing to let us know in a few weeks...lets say 15 March to allow for completions to build up.......if the service has improved by then or not.

We are listening.

[obvious]

Originally Posted by Pointman

there will be additional hardware going in in early March (like the 1st week in March) which should resolve any outstanding issues.

Excellent. Looking forward to the reinstatement of all the missing binary groups. That £1milli on investment seems to finally have come through. Thanks.

Guess ntl finally came to their senses and realised just how much transit bandwidth they'd save by providing a full feed again. Nice one.

[ynwa]

It's worth mentioning that in our "Trial Closure" e-mail, we did mention that there will be additional hardware going in in early March (like the 1st week in March) which should resolve any outstanding issues.

Sorry, i never received that e-mail.

[lincsat]

Originally Posted by Pointman

It's worth mentioning that in our "Trial Closure" e-mail, we did mention that there will be additional hardware going in in early March (like the 1st week in March) which should resolve any outstanding issues.

It would be great if all of you would be willing to let us know in a few weeks...lets say 15 March to allow for completions to build up.......if the service has improved by then or not.

We are listening.

Is the new Hardware initially only on the trial server or will it be available over all the NTL servers?

I too would welcome the re-instatement of the binary groups.

[Pointman]

Originally Posted by lincsat

Is the new Hardware initially only on the trial server or will it be available over all the NTL servers?

I too would welcome the re-instatement of the binary groups.

I believe it will be all

[bioboy]

Originally Posted by obvious

Excellent. Looking forward to the reinstatement of all the missing binary groups. That £1milli on investment seems to finally have come through. Thanks.

Guess ntl finally came to their senses and realised just how much transit bandwidth they'd save by providing a full feed again. Nice one.

I notice you highlighted the word "any", but I fear they won't be reinstating the groups which were removed. I hope I'm wrong?!

On the other hand I am pleased they're getting some new hardware in a week or so.

[bioboy]

Originally Posted by Pointman

It's worth mentioning that in our "Trial Closure" e-mail, we did mention that there will be additional hardware going in in early March (like the 1st week in March) which should resolve any outstanding issues.

It would be great if all of you would be willing to let us know in a few weeks...lets say 15 March to allow for completions to build up.......if the service has improved by then or not.

We are listening.

Thanks. Will do.

[lincsat]

Is the trial server still receiving traffic? I seem to be getting no new headers.

[bioboy]

It was yesterday morning. I'll check again tonight.

[bioboy]

New headers were uploading fine at the weekend, though some groups still have plenty of incompletes.

[ntluser]

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!! (Famous last words?)

[IanUK]

The normal cable server seems a little better over the last few days, I don't have access to the trial one, but hopefully that is even better - I hope we get to see the benefits of the upgrades soon.

Cheers

Ian

[bioboy]

Originally Posted by ntluser

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!! (Famous last words?)

I agree with what you're saying, but then you would expect spped and reliability to be better with far less people on the trial server. Let's see if it continues when everybody is on it.

[ntluser]

Originally Posted by bioboy

I agree with what you're saying, but then you would expect spped and reliability to be better with far less people on the trial server. Let's see if it continues when everybody is on it.

That's a fair point. I was just reporting back my experience so that the trial organisers can note the improvements or not in the areas mentioned. It will indeed be interesting to see what happens when everybody tries to use the server. Just hope it all works for everybody.

[bioboy]

Yes. I'm looking forward to the installation of new equipment this week that should improve things further.