On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:16:33 GMT, mjello <non.compos@ment.is> wrote:
>Tarkus@here.com wrote in news:gb7ps997f26ovf77t60iejvonn6ehd2p3s@4ax.com:
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>> $95 per year? What is the speed like and what the limits? I know
>> they say "unlimited" and "super speed etc." but quite often that
>> doesn't quite pan out.
>
>Yes.
>
>Speed is always going to be dictated by the ISP, not the NSP,
>and I have the cheapest broadband Comcast will sell me.
>
>UNS does allow oodles of simultaneous connections, but I've
>been told that you can normally max out your pipe with just
>four and so four is all I normally use. Just out of curiosity,
>I uploaded two posts simultaneously once (four and four), and
>both seemed to go up in the usual way.
>
>I don't much care. It's clear to me that if I want to upload
>faster I need to pay Comcast more money. I'd rather eat.
Can you do a fast check and confirm if alt.binaries.teevee is
available? Some NS avoid carrying that one.
I get what you mean by speed in the ISP but what I was getting at was
whether or not there were "small text limits". For example on
EasyNews I have 'unlimited NNTP' but in truth there is a limit only it
is so huge that you could never really download that much even if you
were downloading almost 24/7. However there is a limit on Web
downloading, (I have no idea what the difference is since a packet
download is a download is a download.
Connection wise I find it has more to do with the News Reader. Agent
isn't happy with much more than 4 whereas Newsbin's sweet spot is 10.
For some reason in Canada upload is the real issue. You must have
noticed that it takes me forever to upload a set and that all stems
from consumer upload speeds here being seriously capped. I currently
get about 20Mbs down and 500kbs up although I am looking at making a
change in the fall which would result in roughly 35Mbs down but still
only 1Mbs up. Which btw is why I am not as prolific as many of the
others here. It isn't due to lack of content but rather that it takes
so long just to get one freaking upload complete.
Anyway $100 a year for Usenet would save me roughly $250 a year which
would more than cover the cost of the improved ISP upgrade and I am
all about making changes that are either cash neutral or cash
positive. Further off topic I used to have both a DSL and Cable ISP
back when I had illusions of creating an actual dual bridge between
the two services, (never really worked as the consumer routers were
never able to handle the structure), and when the ISP's began to stop
offering Usenet I dropped the Cable ISP because the DSL still had NNTP
and the savings went to my first premium Usenet service - cash
neutral. ;)
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