test321
Patrick Turner
Patrick Turner.
Tom Schlangen
ACK
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"Patrick Turner" <in...@turneraudio.com.au> wrote in message
news:41DA3DBA...@turneraudio.com.au...
> test321 to see if this new ISP can connect me to RAT.
>
> Patrick Turner.
>
It did.
:-)
Iain
mick
> test321 to see if this new ISP can connect me to RAT.
>
seems to work... :-)
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also?
Carroll
"Iain M Churches" <ta...@kolumbus.fi> wrote in message
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Choky
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| Patrick Turner.
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I can't see ya
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Patrick Turner
Carroll Conklin wrote:
I posted the above test 321 message via a new ISP's news server I am trying
but it wasn't immediately
visible when I viewed the RAT via news.individual, so I assumed this new
ISP wasn't any better than the last crummy service provider I've been using
because because the posting list is days behind at RAT, 2 weeks behind at
ABSE, and 6 hrs behind at aus.hi-fi.
So I am able to post to the world, but not read the lists.
Obviously, when I asked my latest ISP "Can you provide a reliable
up to date properly working access to the news groups? ",
he was just bullshitting when he said yeah, no worries, we have never had
any complaints like those
you made against that other guy.
So I have continuing ISP problems and it seems the "industry" is dominated
by cowboys.
And the server address settings the idiot, ( sounded so sensible to talk to
) told me when I paid
my fee all were different to what managed to turn up in an email.
Email appeared to work for about 1/2 an hour, and then stopped, it won't
accept the password any more.
Its not my PC, I had the same bother in Outlook Express or Netscape 4.7,
which I re-installed ....
Everytime I change the slightest thing in a PC, all this shit repeats
itself,
and hours are wasted getting anything to work.
Don't hold your breath about the binaries at ABSE.
This news group and email thing is supposed to be so simple, so
straightforward,
but it hardly works at all......
Patrick Turner.
John Stewart
> test321 to see if this new ISP can connect me to RAT.
>
> Patrick Turner.
You appear here in the Frozen North.
Can see you on ABSE as well. JLS
Gregg
Supernews or some dedicated Usenet provider?
Patrick Turner
John Stewart wrote:
This is encouraging.
The ISP i am trying to leave does not permit me to post outside Oz,
or even outside the server he has.
The new ISP permits me to post OS so you guys see all, but then
his list of postings at RAT is a fortnight old!
If it ain't one pharkine thing, its a pharkine another.
I have emailed my latest ISP with a message
about the "Not so wonderful service from V-------et.com.au."
Maybe they fix the pile of problems, maybe they don't, and maybe another
vote with my feet is in order.
So far, two ISPs are worse than the one I am trying to leave.
No matter what I post, it won't melt northern snows, and I cannot send
you any
particularly fine sunny mild summer weather we are blessed with right
now.
Sorry to be such a curmudgeon, but that's life.
I don't even have an old shovel I can lend youse to dig youse outa the
snow drifts....
Thank goodness for news.individual.net.
Not a bad news agent...
Patrick Turner.
Patrick Turner
Gregg wrote:
> All the money you're spending on changing ISP's, why not just hookup with
> Supernews or some dedicated Usenet provider?
I may end up having to do that.
The old ISP was charging me $25 per mth for 750Mb.
The latest guy wants $22.50 for 1,500Mb, so a move to him would suit me
better
if he can iron out the news group bugs.
For all I know, I am maybe the only bastard in Canberra complaining about
news group access to some wayward wacky group like RAT....
And oddball news groups are not high priority, unless the groups are
erotically orientated binaries, and that traffic is far greater than all the
text put together
since images take a lot more data than text.
All of what I download/upload has to go through an ISP.
A dollar a day for 4 hrs access on the net is a cheap way to spend time.
Almost anything else one does is more expensive.
Patrick Turner.
Gregg
> Gregg wrote:
>
>> All the money you're spending on changing ISP's, why not just hookup
>> with Supernews or some dedicated Usenet provider?
>
> I may end up having to do that.
>
> The old ISP was charging me $25 per mth for 750Mb. The latest guy wants
> $22.50 for 1,500Mb, so a move to him would suit me better if he can iron
> out the news group bugs.
OY! Whatta ripoff! We pay $40/mo for DSL w/6GB and in Ontario and Quebec,
many ISP's offer *uncapped* BW for the same price :-o
Have you dealt with Bigpond yet? A mate of mine works for them and says
they have reliable access (he lives in Hobart though).
Patrick Turner
Gregg wrote:
> Behold, Patrick Turner signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:
>
> > Gregg wrote:
> >
> >> All the money you're spending on changing ISP's, why not just hookup
> >> with Supernews or some dedicated Usenet provider?
> >
> > I may end up having to do that.
> >
> > The old ISP was charging me $25 per mth for 750Mb. The latest guy wants
> > $22.50 for 1,500Mb, so a move to him would suit me better if he can iron
> > out the news group bugs.
>
> OY! Whatta ripoff! We pay $40/mo for DSL w/6GB and in Ontario and Quebec,
> many ISP's offer *uncapped* BW for the same price :-o
But I quoted Oz $$, so in USD its about $19.
So we are paying about twice per Mb what you are paying.
Its the usual thing with the latest technology; it takes time to
get it as cheaply here as elswhere.
Maybe we have a cheaper public health scheme here
and better weather......
>
>
> Have you dealt with Bigpond yet? A mate of mine works for them and says
> they have reliable access (he lives in Hobart though).
I am a Transact broadband customer. Transact is a broadband service provider
and there are only 6 affiliated ISPs with whom I can be with.
3 out of 6 are POS with regard to news group access.
Telstra have tried to undercut the prices charged by Transact...
And so the war of competion goes on......
Patrick Turner.
Gregg
> Gregg wrote:
>
>> Behold, Patrick Turner signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:
>>
>> > Gregg wrote:
>> >
>> >> All the money you're spending on changing ISP's, why not just hookup
>> >> with Supernews or some dedicated Usenet provider?
>> >
>> > I may end up having to do that.
>> >
>> > The old ISP was charging me $25 per mth for 750Mb. The latest guy
>> > wants $22.50 for 1,500Mb, so a move to him would suit me better if he
>> > can iron out the news group bugs.
>>
>> OY! Whatta ripoff! We pay $40/mo for DSL w/6GB and in Ontario and
>> Quebec, many ISP's offer *uncapped* BW for the same price :-o
>
> But I quoted Oz $$, so in USD its about $19. So we are paying about
> twice per Mb what you are paying. Its the usual thing with the latest
> technology; it takes time to get it as cheaply here as elswhere.
>
> Maybe we have a cheaper public health scheme here and better
> weather......
ACK! I ain't a Yank ;-)
We got socialized medicine too, but our weather SUX!!!!!!
I'll take any Oz weather over the -10C crap outside right now :'( :'(
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Patrick Turner
Gregg wrote:
> Behold, Patrick Turner signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:
>
> > Gregg wrote:
> >
> >> Behold, Patrick Turner signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:
> >>
> >> > Gregg wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> All the money you're spending on changing ISP's, why not just hookup
> >> >> with Supernews or some dedicated Usenet provider?
> >> >
> >> > I may end up having to do that.
> >> >
> >> > The old ISP was charging me $25 per mth for 750Mb. The latest guy
> >> > wants $22.50 for 1,500Mb, so a move to him would suit me better if he
> >> > can iron out the news group bugs.
> >>
> >> OY! Whatta ripoff! We pay $40/mo for DSL w/6GB and in Ontario and
> >> Quebec, many ISP's offer *uncapped* BW for the same price :-o
> >
> > But I quoted Oz $$, so in USD its about $19. So we are paying about
> > twice per Mb what you are paying. Its the usual thing with the latest
> > technology; it takes time to get it as cheaply here as elswhere.
> >
> > Maybe we have a cheaper public health scheme here and better
> > weather......
>
> ACK! I ain't a Yank ;-)
Sorrrrryyyy.
>
>
> We got socialized medicine too, but our weather SUX!!!!!!
You must be canadian then?....
>
>
> I'll take any Oz weather over the -10C crap outside right now :'( :'(
Our aussie gals will put a gleam in your eye as well as the weather.
But one does need a suitable lassoo and plenty $$ to keep a gal interested.
Then ya need a leather suit in bed because they use spurs.
All very exciting if you are 25, and its a balmy evenin in middle of
winter, minimum at about -5c at 3 am.
I am in Canberra, the nation's capitol, and we get real winters
of 3 mths duration, and about 100 frosts.
The rest of the year ain't too bad.
Sydney is tropical compared to where I am, and
there isn't a frost.
Darwin right up north is so hot and steamy, I wouldn't
ever wanna live there.
Lots of Oz is plain hot, but the southern seaboard capitals of all the
southern states
are dreamy.
Oz is nearly as big in area to the US, but only 20 million of us.
The cities seem crowded, frenetic, as cities are around the world,
and I voted with feet in 1973 to come to this town from Sydney since it was
only about
150k then, but its doubled in population since.
I live 10 minutes by car from the city centre, but there are sheep grazing
paddocks within
5 minutes in the other direction, and I like the balance of town and country,
and the clean air.
I had an old client donate me a couple of Heathkits, one a power amp, and one
a preamp,
and he'd never got around to building them in 1963.
He'd gained a promotion then and bought an expensive set of Quad 303 and
ESL57, which
I had fixed for him, and then he gives me these kits.
I looked inside and there isn't a mark on anything, its all in pristine
condition,
no corrosion, since our air is so clean, and free of salt and industrial muck
from other places.
Maybe I sell these kits one day, I doubt I will ever wanna build them...
Men tend to live the longest where I live.
The Capitol was invented because the States wanted a place far away
for the Federals to argue in a mainly cool climate to calm hot tempers, and be
out
of range of battleship shells, but luckily the brown BS haze
drifting up from the Parliment House tends to be swept clear by prevaling
winds.
Like many modern capitols, ours is said to be "artificial", but that is mere
bigotry.
In 1927, when Canberra was started, we had no idea of the threats
of ballistic missiles 50 years later.
Many thought building a damned expensive capitol was spoiling a perfectly
nice sheep paddock.
At least its tolerably laid out, and clean, and a place is its people, imho.
A person is what he or she makes themself to be, not what their city
makes them. Most Oz ppl like the idea of the sea not being far away,
and they don't like the nation's interior, rather barren by comparison, so
many people
who have moved here have moved away, they see it as boring.
I used to be like that, but have become free of any need to be by the seaside,
or spend time at the beach, and any need of the far higher living costs of the
other state capitols.
Ppl from OS think we spend time having BBQs at bondi all weekend,
but most sure don't.
There are a lotta BBQs in backyards though, out in the suburbs.
I think there are lot of places I'd rather not be when I think of our
sleepy big island mored just below SE asia.
Patrick Turner.
Sander deWaal
>But I quoted Oz $$, so in USD its about $19.
>So we are paying about twice per Mb what you are paying.
>Its the usual thing with the latest technology; it takes time to
>get it as cheaply here as elswhere.
>
>Maybe we have a cheaper public health scheme here
>and better weather......
You can have my broadband connection (20 euro/month) in exchange for
some of your sunrays ;-)
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