Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:03:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

...Jim Thompson

---
I've been using Giganews for about four years now.

Excellent and rock solid. I have no complaints at all.

http://www.giganews.com/

John Fields wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:03:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working
on it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

...Jim Thompson

---
I've been using Giganews for about four years now.

Excellent and rock solid. I have no complaints at all.

http://www.giganews.com/

Ditto on Giganews. I've been using it for about 3 years or so with no
problems, which is a lot more than I can say about my internet connection.
I use Comcast; some days I have to continually disconnect and reconnect to
do anything at all.

No help from comcast to solve the problem; they've replaced the modem twice;
same problem. Signal levels seem to be OK, even immediately before I lose
connectivity. wth???
--
David
masondg44 at comcast dot net

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:27:11 -0500, John Fields
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:03:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

...Jim Thompson

---
I've been using Giganews for about four years now.

Excellent and rock solid. I have no complaints at all.

http://www.giganews.com/


I do not know what the dope is going on about. Cox is rock solid, as
you say, and they carry 99% of the groups.

JT is "up and down like a yo-yo". In this case, he is down. Doesn't
know his ass from a hole in the ground.

Jim Thompson wrote in
:

Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

I'm glad I'm not the only one with an increasingly dim view of Agent APN.
It's cheap, but it used to be a lot better.

Doug White

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:59:18 GMT, Doug White
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote in
:

Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

I'm glad I'm not the only one with an increasingly dim view of Agent APN.
It's cheap, but it used to be a lot better.

Doug White

Just switched to giganews... click-click, change blades that quick...
superfast compared to APN.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:59:18 GMT, Doug White
wrote:


Jim Thompson wrote in
m:


Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

I'm glad I'm not the only one with an increasingly dim view of Agent APN.
It's cheap, but it used to be a lot better.

Doug White


Just switched to giganews... click-click, change blades that quick...
superfast compared to APN.

...Jim Thompson

You'll like it Jim....

Lim time:

The psychiatrists commonest shtick?
"You have problems because you are sick!"
But psychologists find,
That your sickness of mind,
Is because you have problems! Click-click?

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

I've been using supernews for about five years with not a single outage.
And, they carry (so far as I can tell) every newsgroup that exists
($5/month).

Jim





"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...
Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:07:41 -0700, "RST Engineering - JIm"
wrote:

I've been using supernews for about five years with not a single outage.
And, they carry (so far as I can tell) every newsgroup that exists
($5/month).

Jim


I dropped Supernews a few months back and went to Forte. I'm back to
Supernews now. The difference is huge.

John

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:03:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

...Jim Thompson


http://astraweb.com/ $25 for 180 GB no time limit, no automatic
charges.
--

Jim Thompson wrote:
Has anyone found a good (pay-for-service) Usenet provider?

Cox is up and down like a Yo-Yo, and Agent's APN (apparently using
Easynews) is becoming flakier and flakier... lots of talk, "Working on
it", but no "do". I no longer recommend them :-(

...Jim Thompson

Two of my ISPs dumped usenet recently.
I'm with teranews. It works.

Rene