At 01:00 PM 3/2/2002 +1300, Craig Whitmore wrote:

> >
> > I must be one of the few who dose not have any problems with Xtra Jetstart
> > speed. I have just finished downloading via news groups a ST Voyager
> > episode and according to my Binary News Reader the average DL speed was
> > 14.45 Kbytes.
> >
> >
>
>The slowness reported is International speed (International web pages etc)..
>I borrowed an Xtra Jetstart Account about 1 month ago, and it was very
>noticable at downloading at about between 3-> 7KB/Sec international (where
>other jetstart providers I got full 16KB/Sec)
>
>Download something via web brower say from www.download.com (something which
>someone else wouldn't of downloaded before - as it wil be cached otherwise)
>and see the speed.

 From download.com it was less than modem speed. around 2.9K but I'm doing
one from Ulead.com with an average speed of 15.1K with Reget delux
download manager

>You where using Xtra's Usenet server (National?)

Yes. But Xtra's binarys are not good but that is my priority server but
it's completion rate is the pits I usually use Terranews.com, Newsfor Europe,

Regards,

Paul Warner

paul.warner@bigfoot.com

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