Slightly OT - MS news server very very slow?

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Gordon

Is anyone else finding that the server msnews.microsoft.com is VERY VERY
slow at the moment?
 
Gordon said:
Alias wrote:




I like to use the MS server - it means I don't miss anything, which /can/
happen using others....
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Agreed, it eliminates the middle-man!
 
Doug said:
No.
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I did a tracert. There's a HUGE bottleneck at msn.

C:\Documents and Settings\gordon>tracert msnews.microsoft.com

Tracing route to msnews.microsoft.com [207.46.248.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms mygateway.ar7 [192.168.0.1]
2 26 ms 26 ms 28 ms 82.152.248.1
3 25 ms 27 ms 26 ms 82.153.2.57
4 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms ge1-1-core3.th.eclipse.net.uk [81.5.191.1]
5 195 ms 190 ms 190 ms 213.228.228.146
6 189 ms 189 ms 206 ms ge-6-3-0-55.sjc-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net
[207.46.37.
197]
7 207 ms 206 ms 214 ms pos6-1.tuk-76cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net
[207.46.34.170]

8 207 ms 207 ms 207 ms ten2-1.tuk-76c-1a.ntwk.msn.net
[207.46.36.197]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 *
 
Gordon said:
I did a tracert.
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Bully for you.

Did you just want to ask the question so you could dispute the answer?

As I said, having no problems with msnews.microsoft.com. (still)
 
Gordon said:
I like to use the MS server - it means I don't miss anything, which /can/
happen using others....
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You miss the posts that MS censors, some of the best.

Alias
 
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