Re: OT: BTinternet and Usenet...


"Paul-B" <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Probert wrote:

Just had my renewal notice from my NSP - which prompted me to take a
look at BTi's server to see if things were any better than they have
been for the last two or three years.

I was expecting things to be as bad as usual - missing messages,
terrible retention of up to 24 hours- all in all the usual crap
service one expects from any given UK ISP theses days.

Imagine my surprise - all messages present and correct (as far as I
can tell) and retention of months in binary groups and years (back to
2003 for this group alone) in text groups.

Looks like I might not be renwing my NSP subscription this year,
after all.


As an ISP BT is marginally better than AOL. Other than that it's
terrible. Of all my clientbase the majority who have recurring problems
are with BT or NTL.

I know. And I'm not recommending joining BT Internet (I wouldn't recommend
joining any ISP at the moment until the Carphone Warehouse broadband deal
shakes out the market in about three months time) - but there are some who
are already with them who've suffered a really appalling Usenet experience.

I've been with BTi for six years and the Usenet service - that when I joined
them was pretty good - got progressively worse without BTi seeming to be
bothered about responding to complaints. I got so pissed off with it that I
decided to sub to an NSP - Clara - a couple of years ago.

Suddenly, though, we seem to have got what we've been asking for for the
last four years - completeness (if that's a word) and retention of more than
24 hours. Far more than 24 hours. I'm assuming they've sub-contracted the
service to one of the larger NSP's - probably Supernews. But I wouldn't put
it past them to be doing something else next month.

Which does leave me with a bit of a quandary since my Clara renewal is up in
a couple of weeks. And Clara have had their own, different, problems
recently.

Cheers,
Probert.


I'll stick with Zen Internet and pay my 10 euros/year to nin, thanks.

www.adslguide.org for a good review of UK ISP's

--
Paul-B "Mansell was Mansell. We, we are only
simple mortals" - Eddie Irvine


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