"-keevill-" <keevill@gmail.com> wrote:

>I am having a problem with my ISP and accessing newsgroups. I have been
>using the inbuilt newsreader in Vista and also Newsrover for a long time
>with no problems but recently I notice that whilst I can login to the NG and
>start to download from the server, it has become very slow and times out
>after a few messages have been downloaded.
>However, if I take my computer to another location with a different ISP,
>then everything works again properly.
>Therefore I am assuming that my ISP has started some sort of blocking or
>throttling.
>Could they have changed some setting requiring me to change something
>perhaps MTU or ?

When you called their support desk, what did they tell you?


>It's not just binary stuff giving problems, even accessing this NG has had
>to be done from a different location using the ISP of a friend.
>Like I say, it's not like they have totally blocked access just made it too
>slow to work with.
>Apart from using web based access to the groups ( which won't work for
>binaries in my case ) how can I get around this ? Can I use another port or
>something like that to trick my ISP?
>Sadly changing my ISP is not an option .

Why do you feel you need to "trick" them? Do you have some inside
knowledge that your account is definitely being "throttled" and are
trying to find a work around?