mr buffalo Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 I use two ISP's - True at my home and CS Lox at the office - both are ADSL and work ok. However, I cannot download any newsgroup articles with either. I am not seeking to access the ISP's news server since I know they don't have any but I want to access msnews.microsoft.net and other newsgroups hosted on Giganews server for which I pay each month. Until recently I could get the articles using True but now I get time outs and only a few articles download very slowly. Are they throttling it or trying to close it off ? Any ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordfoul Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Giganews also supports port 80 and 23. You may have better luck with one of those. I use two ISP's - True at my home and CS Lox at the office - both are ADSL and work ok.However, I cannot download any newsgroup articles with either. I am not seeking to access the ISP's news server since I know they don't have any but I want to access msnews.microsoft.net and other newsgroups hosted on Giganews server for which I pay each month. Until recently I could get the articles using True but now I get time outs and only a few articles download very slowly. Are they throttling it or trying to close it off ? Any ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croftrobin Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 I use freenews.netfront.net for free newsgroup access and it is fast for me using both TOT and AIS GPRS Service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surface Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 i seem to remember somebody else having similar problems several months ago. not sure if it was the same ISP, but i think several calls their ISP fixed the situation. a search on here should bring it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almasy1939 Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 I am having the same exact problem with TRUE. I complained to them back in july, the problem seemed to get better for a while, now it is back. keep sending emails to [email protected] to complain about this. I had this problem with news20.forteinc.com and news.newshosting.com other people are having this problem it seems, search this forum for "newsgroups" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 My God, is anyone still using the old news system? I though with the proliferation of forum software that was all history. What's it used for these days, other than pron? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiflyer1 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I use two ISP's - True at my home and CS Lox at the office - both are ADSL and work ok.However, I cannot download any newsgroup articles with either. I am not seeking to access the ISP's news server since I know they don't have any but I want to access msnews.microsoft.net and other newsgroups hosted on Giganews server for which I pay each month. Until recently I could get the articles using True but now I get time outs and only a few articles download very slowly. Are they throttling it or trying to close it off ? Any ideas ? I use Giganews service through Maxnet and JI-Net in Pattaya............no problem here connecting and downloading. I search via binsearch and download with newsbin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordfoul Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Lately I have been using Astraweb. $11 a month for unlimited usage. It works great and uses my full bandwidth, retention is a bit less than giganews though. http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html I use two ISP's - True at my home and CS Lox at the office - both are ADSL and work ok.However, I cannot download any newsgroup articles with either. I am not seeking to access the ISP's news server since I know they don't have any but I want to access msnews.microsoft.net and other newsgroups hosted on Giganews server for which I pay each month. Until recently I could get the articles using True but now I get time outs and only a few articles download very slowly. Are they throttling it or trying to close it off ? Any ideas ? I use Giganews service through Maxnet and JI-Net in Pattaya............no problem here connecting and downloading. I search via binsearch and download with newsbin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ungcas Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I use two ISP's - True at my home and CS Lox at the office - both are ADSL and work ok.However, I cannot download any newsgroup articles with either. I am not seeking to access the ISP's news server since I know they don't have any but I want to access msnews.microsoft.net and other newsgroups hosted on Giganews server for which I pay each month. Until recently I could get the articles using True but now I get time outs and only a few articles download very slowly. Are they throttling it or trying to close it off ? Any ideas ? It should be a port issue.. I was using newshosting before at port 7000,8000,9000 without any issue (though the speed sometimes drops to about half of max during peak hours). I recently switched to usenet.net and had a lot of speed issues.. They don't have high ports like newshosting, but I found that switching it to port 23 resolved the speed problem.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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