Pfff, not the real story - dslreports.com

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tdkyo join:2002-12-07 Rochester, NY	Pfff, not the real story At least me ISP Frontiernet has come clean by stating that it was too much a burden for them to manage when they announced that they would no longer offer the binary usenet to their broadband users.
tdkyo join:2002-12-07 Rochester, NY	to forum · permalink · · 2005-12-26 17:07:19 ·
Roop join:2003-11-15 Ottawa, ON ·Cybersurf Corporat..	said by tdkyo : At least me ISP Frontiernet has come clean by stating that it was too much a burden for them to manage when they announced that they would no longer offer the binary usenet to their broadband users. if rogers said that and threw some statistics to back it up i'd belive them... however their news service has sucked long and sucked hard for many a year. i've been using newshosting.com for some time now. 40 day renteion and 6mbits unlimited at $15 USD. rogers allowed 2 connections per IP and throttle those to 32Kbytes/sec (that is not a typo). it had a good 2-3 week retention but downloading the headers took 2 days. previous to this rogers had a very fast news provider but the retention was 12-48 hours. 72 if you were lucky. i didn't mind the retention issue back in the day but the speed capping really was the last straw. kudos to BBR for making the people aware of roger's shady practices.
Roop join:2003-11-15 Ottawa, ON ·Cybersurf Corporat..	to forum · permalink · · 2005-12-26 17:30:42 ·
a @rr.com	reply to tdkyo Agreed, customers want to be treated with respect, not like they can't understand the reasons isp's do things.
a @rr.com	to forum · permalink · 2005-12-26 18:33:37 ·


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