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Re: Is it me or is LUGNETvery slow this side of the Atlantic?
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Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:07:13 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Daniel Crichton writes:
> "Huw Millington" <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:GALC1K.HL0@lugnet.com...
> > It seems to haven been slow for a couple of days -- even on my leased line
> > here at work...
> 
> Seems fine from here - UK on Easynet with a 2Mbps line. What I have found is
> that if I haven't connected to a newsgroup (I'm using Outlook Express for
> news access, not web based news access via LUGNET) there is a long delay,
> I'm guessing there is some sort of check going on at the server if my name
> and address are being passed in the connection attempt to make sure I'm
> allowed to post, or the code used to generate the list of message ids for
> NNTP is really slow.

   And, of course, I'm fine on a T1 from the Netherlands (web access).

   best

   Lindsay



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  Re: Is it me or is LUGNETvery slow this side of the Atlantic?
 
"Huw Millington" <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:GALC1K.HL0@lugnet.com... (...) Seems fine from here - UK on Easynet with a 2Mbps line. What I have found is that if I haven't connected to a newsgroup (I'm using Outlook Express for news (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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