On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:21:19 -0700, heyman <heyman@youholding.com>
wrote:
>On 2019-09-16 21:55:58 +0000, Satanic Mechanic said:
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>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:57:52 -0700, heyman <heyman@youholding.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 2019-09-16 15:52:40 +0000, Satanic Mechanic said:
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>>> It JUST finished. Give it time. Giganews aint what it used to be.
>>> Also,
>>> I suggest bailing from Giganews and jumping to something like Newgroup
>>> Ninja. The price and performance difference are night and day. It's
>>> like how giganews felt years ago when first signing up. My retention
>>> is back, my 500 Mbps pipe is full, and my wallet has more cash!
>>
>> ok two diff suggestions. I have been with giga about 15 years. its
>> about 12 bucks a month. for all I leech here and in e-books, it aint
>> hurting my wallet. I'm willing to switch though have never heard of
>> newsgroup ninja. how long have they both been around. the one thing
>> ill say for giga is they never go down.
>> last question. with newsgroup ninja and usenetserver, is it per
>> connection or can my wife and I both use it for the low price.
>> thanks for the help and a bababooey to you all
>
>Giganews recently (year ago?) dropped it's amazing retention rates.
>They even removed the claims of thousands of days on their web site.
>After noticing I wasn't getting shows as easily, someone mentioned this
>and that the service isn't what it used to be. Several online folks
>suggested Ninja, so I tried it (free trial). Instead of 20 connections
>I get 50. You can split them up as far as I know... I believe I set
>like 45 for my show grabber and leave a few for groups like this when
>I'm away from home. At worse you get denied connection for having too
>many open, but I don't think it ever bitches about 2 IPs accessing at
>same time as long as you each limit your total # of connections.
>At $12/mo I got a lot out o fmy giganews for quite. a while. But not
>now. And now there is at least 1 better service for far less!
>Do the trial for a week to be sure your speeds are still acceptable.
>They MAX OUT MY CABLE MODEM here!
thanks for the comeback. I'm going to give ninja a try. I used
binsearch to try to get the 64k show that was missing and it wasn't
there. only the 32k show was there. im thinking it was incomplete and
never reposted. ill listen to the 32k show in my car. not gonna kill
me to listen to a lower in my car.
thanks
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