[ale] Bellsouth DSL to Speedfactory or SnappyDSL?

[Rick Huebner]

I have both a 1 gig per month free account for being on Comcast, but I 
also have a personal account.  Both give the same speed at 3meg download.

Rick Huebner
www.rhuebner.com



James Sumners wrote:

>Do you pay for the subscription to Giganews yourself or does Comcast supply it?
>In my case Speed Factory was contracting Giganews to provide the news feed and
>as such it was limited in speed.
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>On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:54:08 -0400
>Rick Huebner <rick at rhuebner.com> wrote:
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>>That's interesting.  I've used giganews for about 9 months now.  I am on 
>>Comcast cable and consistently get 3megs download speed from Giganews.  
>>It's probably the fastest internet connection that I ever get.
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>>Rick Huebner
>>www.rhuebner.com
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>>James Sumners wrote:
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>>>I can :)
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>>>Just read this thread:
>>>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10959719~mode=flat
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>>>Basically, Speed Factory just dropped Giganews (which was insanely slow) and
>>>have implemented their own news server that retrieves articles from groups
>>>people actually read. When you request the articles from a group, if no one
>>>has done so already, the server will automatically start caching articles
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>>>from that group.
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>>>On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:06:35 -0400
>>>Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
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>>>>>I use Bellsouths newsservers quite a bit for binaries, can someone
>>>>>comment on Speedfactory or SnappyDSL's newsfeeds?
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>>>>Can't help you on that on, I don't do binary news. :)
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