alex wrote:actually if these are two servers, since the headers are synchronized you can add them both instead of news.usenetserver.com, make one server message-id direct, not to download headers from it (properties->servers), then when downloading bodies newspro will use both servers (one fails it will go to another one) and if usenetserver checks max number of connections separatedly on every server you can have 4 connection on eacn.
I tried this.
nntp1.usenetserver.com I set message-id direct and not to download headers (so I saw +NH). with nntp2.usenetserver.com i did not.
But still Newspro downloads headers from nntp1. Does this mean that nntp1 is not another server?
i think i posted this on another thread. But, aside from the connection issues they had recently, you can squeeze out 12 connections from usenetserver:
I was told this by their support team when I emailed them concerning their lowered number of connections from 6 to 4 during their server issues.
And just out of curiosity, I did an nslookup of the ip range of 241-255. Here's what resolves. I haven't tried to connect to any of them with my credentials (interesting how nslookup and ping return different results):
