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

'What are newsgroups? - we don't have any'






>>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?

My question was hoping to elicit some response from someone who 'may' have
some idea of what is happening and who can suggest some course of action.