[rotuts]

Im upgrading from DSL to FiOS
Ibe been using Thoth for a very long time and like it
I havent tried Unison, and don't know if they have a trial period prior to purchase

but :

some people see to pay extra for a second newserver other than their ISP: GiGa news?
these are extra cost it seems

whats their advantage to say what included in verizon with my DSL/FiOS?
some extra cost services limit GB/Month

verizon just limits you to your ISP speed.

also, at least with Thoth I can open only three connections to the newserver (verizon) and each channel is limited to about 50KB/sec

is this the newserver restiction? the programs restiction?

this adds up to less than the FiOS bandwith.

would a program line Unison allow faster connections?

thanks for any help understanding how newsreaders and nrewsgroup servers work.

cheers

rotuts

[chefpastry]

The primary advantages of going with a third party news server are:

1. Longer retention. Binaries don't get purged as quickly as what is included with most ISPs.
2. Access to more groups. Many ISPs don't offer lots of groups.
3. Many ISPs limit users to how much data they can grab from newsgroups. In some instances simply getting the headers can come close to reaching these unreasonable limits.
4. Third party news servers don't limit bandwidth. When downloading from newsgroups I often max out my 8Mb/sec downstream bandwidth.

As for news readers, my favorite is NewsBin Pro. Unfortunately, it's Windows only. I can't wait until I can run it from within Parallels so I can get rid of my PC once and for good.

I've also tried Pan under X11. It's also very good but is a bit buggy and sometimes crashes on me when accessing large groups. It's also a resource and memory hog.

Unison is pretty good, but when I tried it on my old dual G4, it ran very slowly and also used lots of RAM. I'll give it another shot when my Mac Pro comes in.

I've never been a fan of Thoth...