NTL News Servers [Archive]

Buzzby

02-09-2003, 20:26

:grind:

I made a bit of a song & dance last year about accessing news groups via the news.ntlworld.com.

Could anyone with the requisite knowlege inform us whether NTL
has actually improved the situation.

I thought I remembered that an upgrade was on course for financial year 2003-2004.

I usually try to access every night but usually get rejected/denied
most times. Usually only once a week/2 weeks is normal.

God forbid! as I write this I tried access & I got in.

:smokin:

Shaun

02-09-2003, 21:24

Have you tried text.ntlworld.com , I think that one's not too bad. :)

Personally I have given up, I now use Google when I want to read and post. :eek: Its not the most elegant solution but keeps me up to date on the ones I like.

Oh, and sorry I don't know about the upgrades, but from what I have seen on here I don't think so.:rolleyes:

Jonboy

02-09-2003, 21:30

ntl introduced the cap to help the news servers etc
or am i. wos i. did i dream that statement :D

homealone

02-09-2003, 22:56

Originally posted by dellwear
Have you tried text.news.ntlworld.com , I think that one's not too bad. :)<my edit - homealone>

Personally I have given up, I now use Google when I want to read and post. :eek: Its not the most elegant solution but keeps me up to date on the ones I like.

Oh, and sorry I don't know about the upgrades, but from what I have seen on here I don't think so.:rolleyes:

agree with you about the text server:)

have you tried teranews or astraweb?

newsgroups in news.cache & newscache "seem" to be a little better, lately?

Shaun

02-09-2003, 23:01

Originally posted by homealone
agree with you about the text server:)

have you tried teranews or astraweb?

newsgroups in news.cache & newscache "seem" to be a little better, lately?

Ta Homealone, its been that long since I bothered, :dunce: :disturbd:

homealone

02-09-2003, 23:03

Originally posted by dellwear
Ta Homealone, its been that long since I bothered, :dunce: :disturbd:

no worries - just so you have all the options?:)

Enterian

03-09-2003, 11:59

Originally posted by homealone
newsgroups in news.cache & newscache "seem" to be a little better, lately?

Probably cos a lot of people have given up on them and gone elsewhere! It saves NTL the cost of upgrading them, which was probably the idea! :D