Thread: True 8 mbps Blocking Newsgroup Readers?

I was excited to move and be able to get True 8 Mbps. However I use a paid newsgroup reader called Graboid and it just crawls along at 20 kbps or so,with a lot of speed variation and then ends up stopping completely and will not restart without rebooting the modem. With maxnet Premier, Graboid was consistently and steadily downloading at the maxed out speed of 200 kbps or so with no problems.

Anybody have any experiences with True and Graboid or Easynews or other newsgroup readers (I think that's what they are called?) Anyway to work around this? I'm not really savvy about ports and things like that. It looks like I might need to be though......

Popular torrents on the other hand are downloading at 900+ kbps. I never thought I would see that speed in Thailand and who knows how long that speed will last for me.

I'll give that a try. I'm sure the technician will be happy to help!

I spent about an hour on the phone yesterday with the True technician and a customer service translator. The woman doing the translating was brilliant. She spoke perfect English and was patient, interested in helping and intelligent. Although they could not fix the download problem they allowed me to use their test password/service which allowed the downloads while they further researched the problem. I guess I should have tried calling them from the git go........