the bruiser
@insightbb.com | reply to M Willner
Re: Broadband 10.0 Sneak Preview!
Appreciate the boost in download speed, but when is the download speed for newsgroups going to be increased? |
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indy0365
join:2001-08-25
Franklin, IN
| if I rember right insight contracts with giganews ? for newsgroups ? and I think giganews maxes out at 10 mb per connection ? if I was a serious newsgroup downloader
which I might be with the speed upgrade coming I get a seperate account (pay account) at giganews or one of the other newsgroup providers and not use the one insight uses |
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crischen
join:2000-11-07
Anderson, IN | When I run 3 connections (the max Insight allows), I can get 80-90k. I will likely be looking at a pay account once the upgrade goes live here.
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Monolythic
join:2005-10-09
Springfield, IL
| I apologize for going off-topic.
Concerning GigaNews:
Okay, here's the deal with GigaNews. Insight's 'newsgroup' service is bound to the giganews DNS, so any IP from the news.giganews.com address will be slower than expected, even if you have a pay GigaNews account, this hit me hard when Insight switched to GigaNews as I use giganews for many video clips and even patches that take 20 seconds over Usenet rather than 1 hour over http.
Anyway, the only way around it that I found was to use news-europe.giganews.com, you can still get fast speeds but the connection is not nearly as stable and fast as the regular GigaNews. I wound up using NewsHosting as my primary news server and the Europe giganews to fill anything that wasn't completed.
I truly wish Insight would work with Giganews to use a different DNS for the basic usenet service, so that those of us who want to be able to use our high speed can do so with a pay account. Right now I pay double for Giganews and NewsHosting. Mr. Willner perhaps you can speak with your guys about this? Hope that helps guys.
Back on-topic:
Thanks for the update on the upgraded service, I've been a happy Plus-Tier customer for a few years now, great to see Insight moving itself forward. |
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