Yet another crash of Optusnews

Time to look for a new ISP

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:45:31 +1100, "ChrisRiley"
wrote:

Time to look for a new ISP


No, just another news feed. $2 a month will get you one.

"ChrisRiley" wrote in message
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Time to look for a new ISP

Try Bogplod - very good for the last couple of years.

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"ChrisRiley" wrote in message
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Time to look for a new ISP

Try Bogplod - very good for the last couple of years.


Chris,
If you want the best newsgroup access in Australia, goto Internode, no extra
charge (Apart from downloads being counted) for access to both Supernews AND
Astraweb servers as well as being consistantly in the top 2 ISP's in
Australia for user satisfaction and service.
They are brilliant!
(No, I dont work for them, but I am a (very satisfied) customer.)
--

Jeff Cochrane
Innisfail
Queensland

I was with optus, and got sick of missing out on pics or the whole server
just going down. I finaly changed over to astraweb after some serching, and
recomendations from other users in another group, and have not been happier.
Stuff optus. They have been giving me nothing bu heartache the last five
months. Unfortunately nobody else can give me 60gigs for $70 per month



"ChrisRiley" wrote in message
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Time to look for a new ISP

"Stretch" rudely blurted out
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I was with optus, and got sick of missing out on pics or the whole
server just going down. I finaly changed over to astraweb after some
serching, and recomendations from other users in another group, and have
not been happier. Stuff optus. They have been giving me nothing bu
heartache the last five months. Unfortunately nobody else can give me
60gigs for $70 per month



"ChrisRiley" wrote in message
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Time to look for a new ISP







SEVENTY DOLLARS? Man, do some shopping! Granted,
I'm not in Oz, but if you are talking strictly about
an NNTP server, you can do much better.

If you are referring to an entire crash of connection,
I take back the advice.

Merry Christmas - must be a 100 degrees down there.
I'm freezing my butt off here in the middle of the
planet burning up with "Global Warming."


*****************
Here's *my* funny sig from an ABPA thread on 08/16/08:
Alan Erskine says... "I've got an IQ of 151"
"I'm in the 99th percentile for my age group - that's the top 1 percent"
(nice math there, Einstein!) "I doubt very strongly that you know
anyone in my range of IQ" (Neither do you, Einstein)
Lee discussing newsserver retention:
"...I can go back about 6 months to locate files..."
Alan Erskine interrupts with:
"Why should we wait for six months to download an image
that was posted yesterday?"

"Stretch" wrote in message
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I was with optus, and got sick of missing out on pics or the whole server
just going down. I finaly changed over to astraweb after some serching, and
recomendations from other users in another group, and have not been
happier. Stuff optus. They have been giving me nothing bu heartache the
last five months. Unfortunately nobody else can give me 60gigs for $70 per
month

Bigpond's $90/month with unlimited downloads - no limits.

"Alan Erskine" schreef in bericht
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"Stretch" wrote in message
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I was with optus, and got sick of missing out on pics or the whole server
just going down. I finaly changed over to astraweb after some serching,
and recomendations from other users in another group, and have not been
happier. Stuff optus. They have been giving me nothing bu heartache the
last five months. Unfortunately nobody else can give me 60gigs for $70 per
month

Bigpond's $90/month with unlimited downloads - no limits.

Why are people moaning about their provider on a Newsgroup?
There is nothing the other readers can do to help them, especially when they
are, say, from Europe so why bother them?
Complaints should be sent to your provider and if you are unhappy about
service provided, change providers. Should be easy (at least in the
Netherlands it is).

Regards,
Herman

"Herman" wrote in message
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Why are people moaning about their provider on a Newsgroup?
There is nothing the other readers can do to help them, especially when
they are, say, from Europe so why bother them?
Complaints should be sent to your provider and if you are unhappy about
service provided, change providers. Should be easy (at least in the
Netherlands it is).

You'd have to go back to the start of the thread. Someone was looking for a
new ISP for the very reason stated by "Stretch" - bad service. Here in
Australia, we have several providers, but I've always found Bigpond to be
the best (I was also with Optus once-upon-a-time).

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"Herman" wrote in message
. home.nl...

Why are people moaning about their provider on a Newsgroup?
There is nothing the other readers can do to help them, especially when
they are, say, from Europe so why bother them?
Complaints should be sent to your provider and if you are unhappy about
service provided, change providers. Should be easy (at least in the
Netherlands it is).

You'd have to go back to the start of the thread. Someone was looking for
a new ISP for the very reason stated by "Stretch" - bad service. Here in
Australia, we have several providers, but I've always found Bigpond to be
the best (I was also with Optus once-upon-a-time).

And now many of the Aussie ISP's aren't even providing newsgroup access
either. Your options are rather limited when your whole population is on 20
million people. 300 million people in the US or Europe gives your a lot more
buying choice.

I've been enjoying 'ac249''s series from NNAM Pensacola. but only about 50%
of his pictures are turning up, which is normal with Optus these days. Are
you getting a limited amount or the whole lot at bigpond?

Regards....Chris