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    http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
    http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=speed&order=DESC
    from here few works without enabling IPv6 or without IPv6 tunneling but not getting speed ..after connected stop and when start not more thn 10-50 KB that sux....but im not sure if i enable IPv6 maybe i'll get better speed..or this speed always like this...
    anyone................................

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    Those are probably IPv4 free servers and the speeds and retention will suck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CBen View Post
    http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
    http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=speed&order=DESC
    from here few works without enabling IPv6 or without IPv6 tunneling but not getting speed ..after connected stop and when start not more thn 10-50 KB that sux....but im not sure if i enable IPv6 maybe i'll get better speed..or this speed always like this...
    anyone................................
    90+% of them servers will be text only and read only servers. The few you will find that have binaries will only carry a very limited few groups and usually none of the bigger more popular ones like a.b.movies.divx and the like. Speeds will suck and completion will as well. The only good free servers out there are the couple ipv6 testing servers and those will only last for a limited time.

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    Both eweka and xsnews arn't working for me right now? Anybody else?

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    Eweka was/is working but xsnews as you can see below isn't working since yesterday:


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    Quote Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by CBen View Post
    http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
    http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=speed&order=DESC
    from here few works without enabling IPv6 or without IPv6 tunneling but not getting speed ..after connected stop and when start not more thn 10-50 KB that sux....but im not sure if i enable IPv6 maybe i'll get better speed..or this speed always like this...
    anyone................................
    90+% of them servers will be text only and read only servers. The few you will find that have binaries will only carry a very limited few groups and usually none of the bigger more popular ones like a.b.movies.divx and the like. Speeds will suck and completion will as well. The only good free servers out there are the couple ipv6 testing servers and those will only last for a limited time.
    So the ipv6 free servers are a temporary testing ground? How long do we expect them to be up? I'm considering Astra v. the free ipv6 ones.

  7. Newsgroups   -   #27
    Astra is very good

    Im on the 11$/month deal

    Which is like £6 if your from the UK

    You can't go wrong

    Or if your with Virgin Media they offer free newsgroup access also

    Its UNLIMITED USAGE but the retention is only 7 days which means you can only get the latest new stuff no older stuff.

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    As other said, ISP is your best bet. Others will be flaky/dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by road2elysium View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun View Post

    90+% of them servers will be text only and read only servers. The few you will find that have binaries will only carry a very limited few groups and usually none of the bigger more popular ones like a.b.movies.divx and the like. Speeds will suck and completion will as well. The only good free servers out there are the couple ipv6 testing servers and those will only last for a limited time.
    So the ipv6 free servers are a temporary testing ground? How long do we expect them to be up? I'm considering Astra v. the free ipv6 ones.
    Days, weeks, months. Who knows pretty much when they decide to pull them down. Thats the problem with the free servers or testing servers they never last.

  10. Newsgroups   -   #30
    Good evenning gentlemen.

    People, I'm kinda lost here!

    All the usenet servers that used to work for me seem to be down since the beginning of August, all at once. I'm wondering if that's my ISP blocking access to Usenet (maybe locking port 119?) so I'd like to know if there's a way to find out if that's occuring or not.

    The Usenet servers that I'm trying to access are Eweka, Newszilla & XS News - all of them through IPv6, of course. GrabIt! gets stucked and reports that it was unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 (Connection closed gracefully)

    Keeping in mind that everything used to work like a charm, what am I supposed to do now?

    Best Regards.
    Bart

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