Giganews

Does anyone else use Giganews?

I am downloading at present yet it dosnt seem to want to go waster than around 20KB/s and it has been like that all morning.

Acording to my PlusNEt page i am not slowed.


Any ideas or tips to glean speed
(aside from changing ISP)

try it on another port number........knowing plusnet though they'll be filtering your news traffic and throttling your connection.

How do i do that mate?

well what news client are you using? You can use ports 119,80 and 23 on giganews.

Edited by buggerlugz (Sat 02-Sep-06 15:58:56)

Im using X-News, but im getting a bit tired of it now, so if you could tell me how to shift it on that and recomend a good reader that would be great

Ta

With Xnews, go to
Special -> Setup Xnews

In the "Servers" tab and in the "Basic" tab of that where you specify your login details and news server, you can specify port number too.

Visual aid

I'd give news leecher a try, theres a free 15 day trial on its website. Superb software it is, shame they chap who's wrote it has ruined it with rediculous subscription charges for using his search engine.

Im pretty sure they rate limit these services by IP address, so no matter what port your be going round the M25 at 5mph.

well the minute it went to peak time it shot up to full speed, so what is the point eh

im going to NTL

ADSL has now gone down the pan till BT sorts itself out imo

yeah cheers, though i found it.

See my post above though about what happend at 4 pm