From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:14:35 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>
>Which reminds me, I'd like everyone to give me an honest assessment of
>reliability of this news server compared to the old canopus forum on
>compuserve. Don't be nice, be honest, I want reality. How is the uptime, how
>is the reliability of the internet getting here from all the different
>places you come in from, how's the speed, etc.


Three years already ?   Geez.

I think the overall reliability is comparable to what compuserve *was back
then*....(I had some nasty problems with their dialup earlier this year -
no problems since I got DSL and 'piggyback' on my winsock connection
).    Speed from home is astounding !!!  (And yes, I've
already read your later comment about the server ).   That's doing
a single pass (usually somewhere around 18:30-19:00 Eastern) with Freeagent
to d/l all the new messages in the sections that I read here.

I check nthelp & binaries once or twice a week at work using Netscape
and just read the messages that I want to read.....it is sometimes slow to
connect, but that's daytime using an internet connection that's shared with
(potentially) ~200 people .

Overall ? ....  no complaints - just my thanks for keeping 'canopus' alive.

Doug

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