I appreciate the heads up how ever my thought is that since Road Runner is
including Newsgroups as part I am paying for they should
A. Make sure it works
B. If they are not then cut the cost of the newsgroup services and let me
use that part of the money to pay a 3rd party~!
I can not justify paying any amout more to get something I am suppose to
already have access for. I am going to switch to Earthlink cable then that
way I know
the newgroups work as I mentioned before I can access through DSL as well
and they are complete and working! If it continues to be an issue and the
common
factor becomes OUTHOUSE,AoRoidRunner then I will just go to straight DSL as
I am close enough to the CO.
As the service is poor , and they increased rates service should improve but
it has never happened.
Not to mention if you read the RoadRunner groups you will see this is
everywhere.
I just think that they need to be checked into why they can not provide as
mentioned in there advertisements get to what you want ad amazing speeds!
BP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Jones" <rkones1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Road Runner Garbage
> I've been using RR where I can and Astraweb for missing posts. They are
> pretty reasonable, pay by the gigabyte, not per month. 65 gigs is $25.00.
> They have about a two week latency on binaries and longer on text posts.
No
> limit to number of connections. They run slower than RR however.
> http://news.astraweb.com/ is there news group home page.
>
> Xnews works under wine, I use it in windows, still my favorite reader and
> Pan under Linux.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of bpreece1
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:28 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] Road Runner Garbage
>
> I don't know if I am the only one that uses NewsGroups but for years Road
> Runner has always been garbage.
> Now it's worse. None of the groups postings except for the ones on Road
> Runners service is conplete or stays on the threads.
>
> Now they claim that they should have between 5 to 7 days how ever it is
less
> then 1 day.
> They also come up incomplete how ever when I access the same groups on my
> Mindspring/Earthlink account they are complete and there for days.
>
> Also Earthlink on their support says that newsgroups can not be remotely
> accessed from another network? How ever with a Verizons DSL connection no
> problem. On NewBrightOuthouse, it comes up as a non trusted network. Now
> then weird thing is that Bright Outhouse offers Earthlink yet they are not
> trusted?
>
> Verizions does not and yet they are able to access the NNTP server.
>
> Now for the real crap if you call their support they say there is nothing
> showing any problems? Yet I know 5 people whom have the same problem all
of
> us are in the Hillsborough, Pinellas counties and one in Orlando, and we
are
> scattered. The only common thing is Road Runner.
>
> I don't know but it seems if they are going to offer NNTP service then
they
> should be up and checked. It is part of the service being paid for!
> I really think there should be some way to get a investigation into why
> every since Road Runner was changed to AOL, to Bright Outhouse they
> can not get this crap fixed not to mention the bandwidth was lowered and
> prices increased!
>
> If anyone else is having problems please let me know so OUTHOUSE can see
> they got a problem. I am tired of the it works for us or me B$.
>
> OBTW if you post in any of the Road Runner NNTP groups about problems they
> will call you. So much for being able to communicate to others to let them
> know.
>
> If you are not having a problem let me know what Reader you are using
> please. Thunderbird, and Xnews etc.,
>
> Thanks
> BP
>
>
>
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