Re: 4 questions about Maxnet Jetstart ADSL

"John Doe" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have the following questions about Maxnet :
>
> 1) Is their news server running reliably now ? Looks like it used to
> be quite chaotic, didn't it ?

For the last 2 months I do believe this service has been running reliably.
There is further investment being made in it, due to a small but vocal
amount of users. We are also adding additional newspeers.

> 2) Does their news server give access to binary newsgroups ? If not,
> is there a freely accessible NZ-based read-only server from which I
> could read them ?

Yes, there is full access (well, limited by our newspeers can carry, etc.)

> 3) Does the web access go through a proxy ?

Yes, it does.

> 4) Is the dynamic IP directly accessible from the outside world - I
> mean, is the IP given by the Maxnet connection behind NAT/firewall or
> something else ? Sometimes I will definitely need direct access to my
> computer from the internet. NAT is big no-no for me.

Yes, the IP addresses are real, and are externally available.

Re some other comments about Jetstart and P2P - for the last few months we
have been weeding out the remainder of heavy users and securing additional
international capacity. In the next week we will be re-evaluating the
rate-limiting in place for P2P and FTP services, and gradually increasing
these as our new capacity comes on line.

While I am a Maxnet employee, I use Maxnet ADSL from home, shared amongst
myself, 2 flatmates, and my partner, and I find the performance to be
acceptable. Staff use the same service that customers do.

regards...

aj
(half wearing a Maxnet hat)

Alastair Johnson

this quote is from Alastair Johnson of Wed, 09 Jul 2003 19:40 :
> "John Doe" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
>> Hi,
>> I have the following questions about Maxnet :
>> 1) Is their news server running reliably now ? Looks like it used to
>> be quite chaotic, didn't it ?
>
> For the last 2 months I do believe this service has been running reliably.

oops - spoke too soon
The Maxnet server went down about 2pm today (Saturday). The server now
(6pm) appears to be running, but is not updating any groups.


Peter

"Peter" <> wrote in message
news:...
> > For the last 2 months I do believe this service has been running
reliably.
>
> oops - spoke too soon
> The Maxnet server went down about 2pm today (Saturday). The server now
> (6pm) appears to be running, but is not updating any groups.

It is, but the resync is done alphabetically, and alt.binaries.*, which
quite a few users seem to read, takes a few hours to sync up.

aj.

this quote is from Alastair Johnson of Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:04 :
> "Peter" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> > For the last 2 months I do believe this service has been running
> reliably.
>>
>> oops - spoke too soon
>> The Maxnet server went down about 2pm today (Saturday). The server now
>> (6pm) appears to be running, but is not updating any groups.
>
> It is, but the resync is done alphabetically, and alt.binaries.*, which
> quite a few users seem to read, takes a few hours to sync up.

Yes, was running again Sat evening.
Ok, I didn't know about the alphabetical resync. I'm interested in
comp.os.linux.* and nz.* and soc.genealogy.* so these would be down the
list a bit.

cheers

Peter