Usenetserver.com problems

I got this same error even though I was with Ngroups.net. However, when I run the trace route it goes to usenetserver.com as final destination !! I guess Ngroups.net is a service provider only.

Ngroups.net is trying to find out if we they can provide a alternate download path but they have said they cannot influence the upload path to their servers.
 
Problems, problems and more problems for Usenetserver users.
No real news in the links below, just substantiating what people here are reporting.

My problems have only gotten worse over the past couple of days.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19255238-Newsgroups-UseNetServer-Connection-Problems
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=437715&sid=e2904d981542408682fdea5ad7313b7d
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19377979-OOL-newsgroups-download-trouble


Anyone try PowerUsenet lately?
I tried them about a year ago, and although they were stable speeds were only mediocre. That also could have been because they were only offering five connections at the time.

I haven't decided between them and a Giganews Platinum account yet. An extra 100 days retention my come in handy.
 
What port should I connect to?
Port 119 is the default NNTP port, but we support ports 23, 25, 119, 1720, 3128 and 8000. Secure.usenetserver.com only allows encrypted SSL connections on ports 443, 563 and 8080.

just got this back from usenetserver

This has been an ongoing issue that our engineers have been trying to resolve.
Please reply back with your IP address and a trace route

Have sent trace route will let you know outcome
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I talked to them as well over live chat and they asked the same of me so I gave it to em but that was 4 days ago. Last night I asked about the issue again and they told me they are not sure when it will be fixed becasue the engineers are not sure at this point :frusty:
 
got this work round from usenetserver
Delete all current servers
Add nntp9.usenetserver.com with 5 connections
Add nntp10.usenetserver.com with 5 connections.
Then connect using both servers at the same time

can you do this with grabit if not what prog do I need
 
this issue is so fucking annoying. I just joined with them b/c I was having some incomplete issues on my ISP's newserver, which has been great for the past year or so.

I didn't realize how slow I was downloading. The speeds with usenetserver are awesome, topping out at 14Mbps. I was downloading movies in under 45 minutes. :-O I'm currently closing and opening newsbin to get a connection going.

I don't know why they can't fix this.
 
From usenetserver.com homepage:
We have identified the cause of the network instability that some users have been experiencing lately. We have ordered replacement hardware which should be here on Nov 8. In the mean time, we have rerouted part of our internal network to get around the issue temporarily. However, some customers may still see a few errors during peak times. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank You,
Engineering
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I never had any major problems with speed. I had 4-5 connections with the Error400 but still DL'ed around 3-4MB/s on my university connection so no complaints :P I did take them up on their 1 free extra week offer through customer service for the "hassle"
 
what about newshosting? giganews seems to be the best, but $25 a month? Seems like a lot. I don't know if I can justify that since my isp's is usually good...just not as fast.
 
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I'm switching from UNS to NewsDemon. The speed is shit and I'm tired of getting the 400 connection errors.
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Do not make the same mistake I did. I switched to Thundernews and after a day had the same errors I was getting with usenetserver. Support lied to me 3 times saying there is no problem it was on my end. So I ran a traceroute to thundernews and lo and behold I was being routed through usenetserver, lol after I confronted them with that they gave me a full refund. Then I looked around a bit and settled on Newshosting and that works fine and has since I signed up with them. Anyways Newsdemon is routing through Usenetserver.com as well. I dont know if they are resellers or what but have a look:


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\User>tracert useast.newsdemon.com

Tracing route to useast.newsdemon.com [208.49.82.60]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1
 
Broken said:
Problems, problems and more problems for Usenetserver users.
No real news in the links below, just substantiating what people here are reporting.

My problems have only gotten worse over the past couple of days.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19255238-Newsgroups-UseNetServer-Connection-Problems
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=437715&sid=e2904d981542408682fdea5ad7313b7d
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19377979-OOL-newsgroups-download-trouble


Anyone try PowerUsenet lately?
I tried them about a year ago, and although they were stable speeds were only mediocre. That also could have been because they were only offering five connections at the time.

I haven't decided between them and a Giganews Platinum account yet. An extra 100 days retention my come in handy.
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I got the 5 day trial with powerusenet and the speed sucks so I just canceled. So I just signed up with Thundernews Unlimited + ssl package and finally getting my max speeds again. :01:

Hopefully it stays like this and I will stick with them.
 
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