OT - Wi-Fi questions

On 07/12/2011 02:33, soup wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 01:06, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>> don't actually manage their own server, but make it look as
>> if they do - I think they use HighWinds.
>
> Virginmedia dropped theirs but again they didn't use their own it was
> highwinds.
> When it was blueyonder I used theirs then when Virginmedia took over
> (well NTL and Blueyonder merged then they bought use of the Virgin brand
> )I used theirs I now use eternal september.

In the UK, Virginmedia dropped one some years back but their
news.virginmedia.com is still going strong with support for nearly
100,000 newsgroups including binary NGs.
-- choro

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

> Gene E. Bloch <> writes:
>
>> Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?
>
> In the UK, Demon and PlusNet to name two. It's the exception rather than
> the rule though nowadays. I think PlusNet don't do binary 'groups, and I
> think both don't actually manage their own server, but make it look as
> if they do - I think they use HighWinds.

Plusnet (and BT Internet and all the brands Plusnet have gobbled up) is
farmed out to giganews

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/news...r_resellers#BE

Initialy they didn't carry this group, so I used eternal-september, but
giganews have picked up this group now.

On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:13:29 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
<> wrote:

>On 12/06/2011, Mortimer posted:
>> Newgroups may also be a problem. You may want to change the news server to be
>> the one provided by the internet connection rather than the one that you used
>> with your home internet connection.
>
>Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

I've been using the Demon Usenet service for 18 years and still am.

Steve

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

> I've been using the Demon Usenet service for 18 years and still am.

You might be using the same DNS name, but the service was outsourced
three years back ...

<http://groups.google.com/group/demon.announce/browse_thread/thread/0e4d7e5cb84c598b>

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:36:20 +0000, Andy Burns
<> wrote:

>Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>
>> I've been using the Demon Usenet service for 18 years and still am.
>
>You might be using the same DNS name, but the service was outsourced
>three years back ...
>

Yes, I know about that but it is still news.demon.co.uk for users and
it's been like that since 1992.

Steve

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Gene E. Bloch <> wrote:

> On 12/06/2011, XS11E posted:
>> Gene E. Bloch <> wrote:
>
>>> Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet
>>> server?
>
>> There very rare. When Cox dropped Highwinds news servers I,
>> along with many others, thought there should be a drop in price.
>> I'm sure Cox got a good laugh out of that. <sigh>
>
>> Now they've dropped their "Personal Web Space", still no drop in
>> price! <G>
>
> Maybe there will be a drop in customers?
>
> Probably not a big one, sadly.

There's no real competition, we're stuck with Cox. CenturyLink
(formerly Qwest) offers slow DSL but their reputation is no better than
Qwest so very few will deal with them.

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