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 In article <826149887snz@loony.demon.co.uk>
  Simon Oke <Simon@loony.demon.co.uk> said:-

>> I think we are all unhappy with the state of news.demon.... and I for one would
>> like to know what you're going to do about it.
>
>Would "trying to track down and fix the fault with news2" do?

No, because the problem has been around long before news2 fell over (as alot of
the recent postings in this group indicate). Oddly enough since the server has
been in trouble the newsfeed comes much faster once you get connected that
is.....

>> Since the "Server busy" problem 
>> has been cured transfer rates have plunged to about 306f what they should be.
>
>Not for me. Using DOS and KA9Q I can get 4-5k per second.

Lucky old you, but I, like a lot of people here, am using NOS 0.42 and Oasis.
I'm lucky if I ever get a rate above 1k.

>Dircon's was claimed to be good a month or two ago. I wonder what happened
>to those who insisted on repeatedly telling us in demon.service how
>good it was.

And where will I find that?

>You're spending over a pound a day connecting to Demon?
>Please elaborate on the matter of "failed connections". I'd like to
>know what error messages you get. What number are you dialling, and
>where from? 

Er, no probably not but by my reckoning one only has to waste about 20 pence a
day to make it worthwhile moving to Pipex. As for failed connections they are of
the nature of: "ring, ring, click, silence, NO CARRIER(modem message), another
five pence down the toilet. This can happen several times before I get a carrier
from the demon modem. On modems that don't ring before connection (Ascends?)
negotiation fails after about 30 seconds due to handshake negotiations between
modems failing, from the lights on my modem it would seem that the carrier is at
too low a level (Demon deny this is a problem). I use the Wellingborough VPOP
and I dial out from Huntingdon.
 
>I don't want you to be an ex-customer, but you don't give a lot of
>information to base a diagnosis on (this rubbish added here since
>a preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with).

I've given more info, but nothing is unique to me. I've lost count of the number
of complaints about these problems that have been posted in this group. 

No more flippant remarks please, Gaz.
 
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