I’ve been using newshosting.com for ages, getting a consistent and reasonable download speed of 500 KBytes/sec from their servers. However they don’t take Maestro, which is making my subscription payments a little problematic. I was all set to switch service when I noticed that they’re now offering a European Usenet server. What a difference. This morning I’ve been averaging a whopping 3 MBytes/sec download. That’s Bytes not Bits! That’s very fast. So I’ll stay where I am.