I have used News.individual.net for some years when it used to be free. I am due to renew my subscription, at E10 for the year good value. However it seems to be steadily getting slower, anyone any suggestions as to an alternative, either free or about the same price? Is it getting slower or is my system, like me, just growing old and tired?
I've not noticed any deterioration of the service.
Broadback,
I've noticed no problems here with individual.net. Have you tried doing some maintenance on your newsreader such as resetting the groups?
Cash
Have you killfiled a lot of threads/posters? I periodically clear my killfiles, as full files seem to seriously slow downloads.
Not noticed anything here. How much news have you got horded away on your PC? Some programs store news is single files, once these get "a bit big" adding new articles to them becomes a slow process. This sort of fits with your "steadily slower" symptom.
Is your ISP doing some underhand "traffic management?"
There are hundreds of free servers about. You do not need to pay. You might have noticed that paying provides no advantage. If you can post to a newsgroup there is no excuse for not finding the information for yourself.
No problem here with it at all.
Same variation I expect on all servers - sometimes blindingly fast, sometimes a bit slower. Quite often I find my anti-virus updates are actually why it appears to be running slowly.
But why has this thread got the subject "mail reader"? - Seems you are asking about mail server. I was expecting another rehash of the 'which news reader software' debate.
Actually, he's asking about news server! :-)
Indeed - and what you *know* I meant. :-)
Motzarella is free, and seems to work OK.
I have just switched from N.I.N.
You get what you pay for. Or in the case of NIN you pay for *not* getting the spam.
Pipex did this for a while, it was taking up to 20 minutes to get the headers for about 15 groups with only up to 200 posts per day, and 5 minutes per individual post to download several lines of plain text.
Seconded - been using them for about 12 months following hassle being able to pay for N.I.N. using three different valid credit cards (rejected by the payment processor)
And Tiscali still do.
Hopefully, they'll go out of business soon.
Thanks for all the help, I will try Motzarella and see how it goes.
Was that ClicknPay, by any chance? They appear to be a useless bunch of incompetent tossers, and I have just cancelled my account with them (I only used it to pay NIN) and switched to Paypal.
They actually disabled newsgroup access totally here at some times of the day for a while. I wrote to them and said if this continues I'd move ISP. And it wasn't just their 'own' server I couldn't get but all the others I tried. Luckily things are back to normal.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding - are you saying that you can now use PayPal to pay NIN?
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