Re: Bye Bye Thoth

In article <BF8A5B99.23265%johncarrana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Carrana <johncarrana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have started using Unison because for some reason Giganews and Thoth don't
> like one and other any more. Using Thoth, in the morning I get about 1,000
> KBps, as the day goes on the speed goes down, by the evening it can drop to
> 150KBps. Using Unison the speed stays around 1,000 all the time, plus it
> allows 10 connections.
>
> I'm sad to say bye bye to Thoth after using it trouble free for quite a
> while. If there is a solution to the speed problem I would like to know.
>
> PS I connect to Giga with news-europe.giganews.com

I've read a lot of stories about Giganews speed/authentication issues
this last couple of days - I wonder if they're having some glitches that
is causing the problems you're seeing?

FWIW I've never used Thoth, I find Unison fine for binaries, but for
text groups I use MT-Newswatcher.

cheers,
Paul
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