Monolythic
join:2005-10-09
Springfield, IL
| Re: Broadband 10.0 Sneak Preview! 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. |
