I am reinstalling on my laptop. On my desktop I use two news servers:

text.news.virginmedia.com
virginmedia.com

Both of which are ridiculously slow and sometimes not even there. Are there 
others? Are they better?

Tim w

Tim W wrote:
> I am reinstalling on my laptop. On my desktop I use two news servers:
> 
> text.news.virginmedia.com
> virginmedia.com
> 
> Both of which are ridiculously slow and sometimes not even there. Are there 
> others? Are they better?
> 
> Tim w
> 
> 

Do you mean news.virginmedia.com and yes they are slow. Early morning 
and late evening tend to be best, rest of the time forget it unless you 
have a lot of time to wait. Bit like their internet service in fact - 
SLOWWWWWwwwwww!

Alec

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> Tim W wrote:
>> I am reinstalling on my laptop. On my desktop I use two news servers:
>>
>> text.news.virginmedia.com
>> virginmedia.com
>>
>> Both of which are ridiculously slow and sometimes not even there. Are 
>> there others? Are they better?
>>
>> Tim w
>>
>>
>
> Do you mean news.virginmedia.com and yes they are slow. Early morning and 
> late evening tend to be best, rest of the time forget it unless you have a 
> lot of time to wait. Bit like their internet service in fact - 
> SLOWWWWWwwwwww!
>
Yes, I did mean news.virginmedia.com. Are there just the two? There used to 
be quite a handful, and at one time the ntl servers as well.

Tim W

Tim W wrote:

> Yes, I did mean news.virginmedia.com. Are there just the two? There used to 
> be quite a handful, and at one time the ntl servers as well.

They are the only two I know of since the Virginmedia thing happened, 
think everything got rolled up into just those two. All the old virgin 
groups got the chop as well, replaced with virginmedia groups of which 
there are quite a lot. Some of them are for cable users rather than DSL 
and they appear to attract replys from VM staff from time to time which 
never happened with the old virgin groups.

They are probably the best place to try, perhaps in 
virginmedia.support.usenet and virginmedia.discussion.usenet. Or do a 
search using virginmedia and take your pick. Don't frequent them myself 
as I prefer the company in here and have 'known' some of the people for 
years.

HTH,

Alec