[ale] Bellsouth DSL to Speedfactory or SnappyDSL?

[James Sumners]

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.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:54:08 -0400
Rick Huebner <rick at rhuebner.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Rick Huebner
> www.rhuebner.com
> 
> 
> 
> James Sumners wrote:
> 
> >I can :)
> >
> >Just read this thread:
> >http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10959719~mode=flat
> >
> >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
> >from that group.
> >
> >On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:06:35 -0400
> >Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>>I use Bellsouths newsservers quite a bit for binaries, can someone
> >>>comment on Speedfactory or SnappyDSL's newsfeeds?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Can't help you on that on, I don't do binary news. :)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> 


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