virgin media adsl newsgroup access

[thecableguy12]

when I was on cable i really enjoyed using the ntl newsgroup access it was free and had some decent stuff etc, when i moved out of the area i was no longer in a cable area and signed up with tiscali which was rubbish speed was slow etc and they kept warning me about downloading to much, i also subscribed to newsdemon which i think is good but cant really afoord extra bills etc, now i have recently signed up for virgin adsl for 17.99 a month and have noticed that i can now access the ntl newsgroup for free again!!! brilliant so if anyone else is on virgin adsl enjoy!

 

[wiiman]

how do you set up ntl newsgroup as i don't know anything about them, i have heard so much about them. but haven't got any idea how to go about it!

 

[geordie_guy]

Actually it would be really helpful if you could explain how to access virgin newsgroups as I don't have a clue.

 

[Curious123]

You need to use a news reader of some kind and then you connect to news.blueyonder.co.uk if you are on telewest. I not pure NTL so I have never been able to connect to NTL's news servers.

http://freeware.intrastar.net/newsreader.htm

 

[thecableguy12]

ok download grabit from google, when installing it will ask what server you want to xconnect to type news.ntlworld.com then you have the access

 

[little_pob]

Anyone not on NTL can check if their ISP runs a newsserver here: http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm#UK

NB whilst BT's newsgroups are run from Giganews' European servers, it seems to be restricted to ~1Mb/s (even on an 8Mb line).