news group problem

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prettylady0241

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I started using giganews and newsleecher today, this is my first attempt at using newsgroups. I got everything set up fine and found a few files to dl. Everything was working fine then I started to get this error : max number of simultaneous IP addresses reached. I am thinking its because my ip switches while im logged on? Is there any way to fix this other than waiting? Its happened 2 times so far. Any help for a noob?
 
You could contact your provider.
For some extra change each month they could probably hook you up with a static IP address.

Although, I have a dynamic IP and never had the kind of problem you're describing.
 
svenseven said:
I started using giganews and newsleecher today, this is my first attempt at using newsgroups. I got everything set up fine and found a few files to dl. Everything was working fine then I started to get this error : max number of simultaneous IP addresses reached. I am thinking its because my ip switches while im logged on? Is there any way to fix this other than waiting? Its happened 2 times so far. Any help for a noob?
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Never heard of anyone loosing an IP while they are online as long as the network card is ok and the ISP don't have any problems. You should have a lease time on the IP and usually it is 12 hours or so (at least it is here in Norway).
Even though your network card is the problem (or a router) you shouldn't get a new IP address since you still got the same MAC address.

Before you go for a static IP you should get your ISP to check it out.
 
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