Newshosting and connectivity issues

MrEman · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:49 pm

New problem with Newshosting for 4 days now...
Very odd collection of headers...... UE ver 2.2

When I connect to unlimited.newshosting.com port:119
I get many connection "retries" then when it does connect I get very slow connection of about 400KB/s
(I usually get 1 MB/steady and trouble free)
If I let this poor connection run >>>I will eventually lose all connectivity to the internet???? Not sure why....

But my LAN connection is still perfectly fine??? Very odd!!!!
I need to reboot my machine in order to regain internet access.
I have done rebooting of my router and modem.......no change

Any ideas??? Is this my local problem or Newshosting?

Nothing else I do causes this. My system will be perfect for days, until I get this poor connection with news.newshosting.com

I am now connected to news.ams.newshosting.com and that works fine

MrEman · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:53 pm

Just got this reply from Newshosting

>Thank you for contacting Newshosting technical support. We are currently
>have some network issues with our unlimited.newshosting.com farm. Our
>admins are working on the issue and there is no ETA at this time. In the
>mean time keep using news.ams.newshosting.com to connect.
>
>If you need anything else please let us know.
>
>Thank you,
>Gregg
>Technical Support

alex · **Joined:** Thu Feb 27, 2003 5:57 pm **Posts:** 4443

i hope they don't read it, it is a state secret

you can switch instead to www.ngroups.net they have sale right now, as ngroups are cheaper than newshosting, but the feed is from the same server farm and in addition you get european server to complement the bandwidth, at least you can try them out and then switch if you are sure the speed is the same.

we are all lucky giganews hasn't bought yet UNS NH and co. then there will be almost absolute monopoly, something like usenet napster

MrEman · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:14 pm

Wow!!!

Tried your suggestion of using Ngroups.net

I had been wondering about SSL
They offer it as part of there base Unlimited plan

I tried a header download with SSL for the first time and UE said it was done in just seconds! (usually takes about 10 minutes without SSL)

Excelent! And cheap too!

Now........ lets check downloads!

Usenet Explorer

Newshosting and connectivity issues