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Incompletes in WI (or more) newsfeeds?

Here in Time Warner Houston, all newsgroup posts are bad here too :/

reply to winter0mute
Here in San Diego, some posts have not come through and others have. I have to rely on my 50mb/day free astraweb account and the inpenitrable biggulp to get needed files. Its really a pain, b/c theres always something i need to d/l :P

reply to winter0mute
Yap, I get it too. Sucky

Whoa, we posted at the exact same time!

Anyways, I cant find any message boards or support page for newsgroups on rr.com which sux too

reply to winter0mute
Yep. Here too in Northeast Ohio the news-feeds have gotten progressively worse over the last few days. I'm gonna give it another week and if things don't improve, I'll try my luck with customer support. (not overly optimistic)

I completely gave up on customer support of any kind years ago. As for rr, dsl is starting to look better every day. If I have to pay seprately for usenet its really going to kill any other advantages I get from cable.

reply to winter0mute
It appears that everything got better almost exactly at 10am today. Hows everyone else doing?

reply to winter0mute
ya im getting terrible retention on wi.rr newsservers its been about 3 days, i hope it improves because after finding out about ng's ive been using them daily for binary posts

The nycap servers are back to normal, it seems...

reply to winter0mute
It goes good for a few hours then back to 100% incomplete. Happened twice already

reply to winter0mute
Guys, its time to accept the facts:

RoadRunner's binary newsgroups stink, and they will continue to stink into eternity.....

I've heard complaints about incomplete binary newsgroups for a few years now, so it is my humble opinion that since they haven't fixed it yet, they will never gonna fix it.

Time to leave it be, move on. Try Giganews or any other commercial usenet provider. Its still a lot cheaper then having to buy the DVD's, buy the CD's or subscribe to the porn websites
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reply to winter0mute
Err...They HAVE fixed it in the past.

All of 2003 has been great for RRs usenet, 90%ish completion and 2 day retention. It just started to go bad last week.

reply to winter0mute
I've had RR for 6 months are so now, and have had no complaints about usenet up until now, other than the short retention, which is really no big deal for me. And ya its going on and off for me now too.

If this is permanent obviously I won't have any other choice than to subscribe to a commercial provider, but up until now I've had no reason whatsoever too. Unfortunately this also means I no longer have any reason to recommend RR to anyone.

reply to winter0mute
I just checked the WI RR network status page, and news status is read (a little less vague than our nation's terrorist alert color codes), with this statement: "Road Runner is currently experiencing an issue with the newsgroup service Subscribers in the affected area(s) may experience trouble downloading groups from "news-server" or experience Partial Binaries at this time. Our engineers are working quickly to resolve this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause"

So at least they are doing something, or at bare minimum appear to give a flying f*ck, which is certainly better than nothing.

reply to winter0mute
where is the status page

reply to winter0mute
Mines at »help.rr.com .. network status on the sidebar on the left

reply to winter0mute
so does anyone know how long this might take? Will they work over the weekend?

reply to winter0mute
According to my status page, there is a "Planned Maintenance" for November 4th for the news servers.

reply to winter0mute
Ya, the 4th 12am-6am. However things seem to be a bit better for the past 20 hours or so for me.