Re: Plus Net Binary News Servers SUCK bigtime.

[ed]

One2Go wrote:
> Just had one rude awakening regarding the binary news servers on Plus
> Net, they are none existant.
>
> a.b.multimedia from a total of 4567 binary files 45 were completed.
> a.b.multimedia.scifi from 1643 total files 8 were completed.
>
> That is 1% and 0.5% completion ratio that is one trashy service.
> Question why do I pay extra for the binary service? Is there any way
> of changing from a 1 year contract with binary to a 1 year contract
> with no binary?
>
> Who in the UK provides decent binary news services at a reasonable
> price?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> One2Go


Don't think they are in UK but Astraweb do a great service. 25 Gbytes for
$10 and 10 day retention.

http://www.news.astraweb.com/



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"ed" > wrote in message
...
One2Go wrote:
> Just had one rude awakening regarding the binary news servers on Plus
> Net, they are none existant.
>
> a.b.multimedia from a total of 4567 binary files 45 were completed.
> a.b.multimedia.scifi from 1643 total files 8 were completed.
>
> That is 1% and 0.5% completion ratio that is one trashy service.
> Question why do I pay extra for the binary service? Is there any way
> of changing from a 1 year contract with binary to a 1 year contract
> with no binary?
>
> Who in the UK provides decent binary news services at a reasonable
> price?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> One2Go


Don't think they are in UK but Astraweb do a great service. 25 Gbytes for
$10 and 10 day retention.

(There US based amd £7 a month to fill 512 connection with unlimited plan
and at the moment have around 5 - 6 days retention)

http://www.news.astraweb.com/



ed

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[Tony Mountifield]

In article >,
Grangpa <newsgroup> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:02:02 GMT, One2Go > wrote:
>
> >Just had one rude awakening regarding the binary news servers on Plus Net,
> >they are none existant.
> >
> >a.b.multimedia from a total of 4567 binary files 45 were completed.
> >a.b.multimedia.scifi from 1643 total files 8 were completed.
> >
> >That is 1% and 0.5% completion ratio that is one trashy service. Question
> >why do I pay extra for the binary service? Is there any way of changing
> >from a 1 year contract with binary to a 1 year contract with no binary?
> >
> >Who in the UK provides decent binary news services at a reasonable price?
> >
> >Thanks for any help.
> >One2Go
>
>
> Zen have been the same since xmas hardly any complete files on the
> binarys

Providing a good news service for binaries requires a huge investment
in kit nowadays. That needs to be paid for, and the only viable way
to pay for it is to charge for it as a separate premium service.

There's no way the costs can realistically be absorbed into a standard
ISP access subscription, and I wish ISPs would stop trying, as it does
their reputations no good each time it goes pear-shaped. They should
provide text-only news as a bundled service, and those ISPs that want
to can additionally offer a properly funded binaries service at a
viable extra cost.

Cheers,
Tony
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[One2Go]

PlusNet Support Team > wrote in
:

> On 22 Jan 2004 09:10:00 -0000, (Tony
> Mountifield) wrote:
>
>>There's no way the costs can realistically be absorbed into a standard
>>ISP access subscription, and I wish ISPs would stop trying, as it does
>>their reputations no good each time it goes pear-shaped. They should
>>provide text-only news as a bundled service, and those ISPs that want
>>to can additionally offer a properly funded binaries service at a
>>viable extra cost.
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> This is a very fair point. As was announced back in December, we are
> planning to overhaul our news service in March and hope to be able to
> provide a pretty good news service as a result. As you say though,
> providing a decent binary feed is an uphill struggle and I can see
> your prediction becoming the case for all ISPs in the future, simply
> because the amount of binary content posted to Usenet continues to
> grow as more people get broadband access.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
> --
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>| Customer Support for Home & Business
>| PlusNet Technologies Ltd. @ http://www.plus.net
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>

As comparison I have EasyNet and now I wish I would have stayed with
them. Their binary news servers carry a 4 day retention and a very high
completion ratio. However I am stuck in a years contract and wish you
success in your upgrade. I have no problem paying a premium for good
completion ratio and 5 days of retention. As it is I am not comparing
PlusNet to any of the premium News Servers, just hoped that what was
stated as a service was actually provided.

One2Go