Re: Best 'net software

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From: Ariancylch
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:00

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In article <19960920.121944.92@mike.old-inn.demon.co.uk>
          mike@old-inn.demon.co.uk (Mike Lane) wrote:

 > In message <19960908.165456.93@fjukes.demon.co.uk> Frank Jukes wrote:
 > 
 > > What's the accumulated wisdom on the best software for 'net connection?
 > > 
 > > I'm currently using TCPIP, NewsBase, TTFN and ArcWeb and am not
 > > dissatisfied but wondered just how good the commercial packages are in
 > > comparison.
 > > 
 > 
 > My advice is to avoid the ANT suite if you download much news and/or mail, as
 > it is diabolically slow. You will be lucky if you get more than a quarter of
 > the download rate compared to TCPIP. 

If it's really just the ANT suite (Marcel etc) one could always run the
PD stuff on top of it..?

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From: Ariancylch <julian@southern.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Best 'net software
Date: 1996/09/23
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