Any users of this service having trouble? For the past couple of weeks I've
often been getting slow downloads of messages with some timing out. I'm
using four other servers with no trouble whatsoever.

I've contacted them and they replied that they've had no other reports of
trouble. They asked for a traceroute, which I sent them a week ago, but
I've heard nothing from them since.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy

On 2008-08-21, Graham P Davis wrote:
Any users of this service having trouble? For the past couple of weeks I've
often been getting slow downloads of messages with some timing out. I'm
using four other servers with no trouble whatsoever.

I've contacted them and they replied that they've had no other reports of
trouble. They asked for a traceroute, which I sent them a week ago, but
I've heard nothing from them since.

I'm with them and not had any issues recently. Actually I've very rarely had
any issues with them at all.

Jim
--
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Things our resident MCSE didn't know how to do today:
open a port on the XP firewall.

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:51:09 +0100, Graham P Davis
wrote:

Any users of this service having trouble?

No problem here.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

In article ,
Jim writes:
On 2008-08-21, Graham P Davis wrote:
Any users of this service having trouble? For the past couple of weeks I've
often been getting slow downloads of messages with some timing out. I'm
using four other servers with no trouble whatsoever.

I've contacted them and they replied that they've had no other reports of
trouble. They asked for a traceroute, which I sent them a week ago, but
I've heard nothing from them since.

I'm with them and not had any issues recently. Actually I've very rarely had
any issues with them at all.

Me too, to all of what Jim has said.
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Alan White wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:51:09 +0100, Graham P Davis
wrote:

Any users of this service having trouble?

No problem here.


Ditto

--
Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl

Not had any problem here, Graham

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html
or
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
Any users of this service having trouble? For the past couple of weeks
I've
often been getting slow downloads of messages with some timing out. I'm
using four other servers with no trouble whatsoever.

I've contacted them and they replied that they've had no other reports of
trouble. They asked for a traceroute, which I sent them a week ago, but
I've heard nothing from them since.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy

Yes definitely had instances of the NIN server being either
non-contactable or very slow, mostly in the evening. For 95% of the
time the service is good and fast as usual, but there are certainly
occasional apparent dropouts lasting for 10-30 minutes or more.

I had wondered whether this was anything to do with throttling of the
port that news would normally use because it seemed to be more
prevalent at busier times for private users, ie in the evenings. And I
know that some ISPs are rumoured to implement indiscriminate
throttling of eg news (more to stop 'overuse' of their own news
servers AIUI than access to outside news servers but they don't seem
to be able to discriminate). So it may conceivably be an ISP issue
rather than a NIN one. I use a Nildram business account here but I've
really lost track of which larger company has control of running the
servers etc for Nildram business. Whatever it is, the service is no
longer good or competitively priced so a move to Zen is on the cards.

JGD

"John Dann" wrote in message
news
Yes definitely had instances of the NIN server being either
non-contactable or very slow, mostly in the evening. For 95% of the
time the service is good and fast as usual, but there are certainly
occasional apparent dropouts lasting for 10-30 minutes or more.

I had wondered whether this was anything to do with throttling of the
port that news would normally use because it seemed to be more
prevalent at busier times for private users, ie in the evenings. And I
know that some ISPs are rumoured to implement indiscriminate
throttling of eg news (more to stop 'overuse' of their own news
servers AIUI than access to outside news servers but they don't seem
to be able to discriminate). So it may conceivably be an ISP issue
rather than a NIN one. I use a Nildram business account here but I've
really lost track of which larger company has control of running the
servers etc for Nildram business. Whatever it is, the service is no
longer good or competitively priced so a move to Zen is on the cards.

Same here using Virgin Media - but its usually available again a few minutes
later. Hasnt bothered me enough to consider moving..

Phil

"Phil Layton" wrote in message
...

"John Dann" wrote in message
news
Yes definitely had instances of the NIN server being either
non-contactable or very slow, mostly in the evening. For 95% of the
time the service is good and fast as usual, but there are certainly
occasional apparent dropouts lasting for 10-30 minutes or more.

I had wondered whether this was anything to do with throttling of the
port that news would normally use because it seemed to be more
prevalent at busier times for private users, ie in the evenings. And I
know that some ISPs are rumoured to implement indiscriminate
throttling of eg news (more to stop 'overuse' of their own news
servers AIUI than access to outside news servers but they don't seem
to be able to discriminate). So it may conceivably be an ISP issue
rather than a NIN one. I use a Nildram business account here but I've
really lost track of which larger company has control of running the
servers etc for Nildram business. Whatever it is, the service is no
longer good or competitively priced so a move to Zen is on the cards.

Same here using Virgin Media - but its usually available again a few
minutes later. Hasnt bothered me enough to consider moving..

Phil


And here, also with Virgin Media. I often find that it's not just NIN that
drops out for a few minutes, but also all British and European-hosted
websites too. This typically seems to happen in the evening which seems to
suggest an ISP problem, although oddly enough, my Eee PC (running Xandros
Linux) sharing the same internet connection can access NIN and these
websites when my desktop (running XP) can't, so it could even be a Windoze
Firewall issue.

Paul.

"John Dann" wrote in message
news
Yes definitely had instances of the NIN server being either
non-contactable or very slow, mostly in the evening. For 95% of the
time the service is good and fast as usual, but there are certainly
occasional apparent dropouts lasting for 10-30 minutes or more.

I had wondered whether this was anything to do with throttling of the
port that news would normally use because it seemed to be more
prevalent at busier times for private users, ie in the evenings. And I
know that some ISPs are rumoured to implement indiscriminate
throttling of eg news (more to stop 'overuse' of their own news
servers AIUI than access to outside news servers but they don't seem
to be able to discriminate). So it may conceivably be an ISP issue
rather than a NIN one. I use a Nildram business account here but I've
really lost track of which larger company has control of running the
servers etc for Nildram business. Whatever it is, the service is no
longer good or competitively priced so a move to Zen is on the cards.

JGD

Nildram = Pipex = Tiscali :-O

There have been issues with the latter two throttling news/nntp ports - have
a look on the forums on thinkbroadband.com.
One of the reasons I left Pipex and went to Entanet/UKFSN.

Graham.. who is your ISP??

Jim