Connection windows showing weird information.

[kulprit]

I am using the astraweb ssl us server however am getting the connections window saying Giganews. Just wanted to check here before I get onto astraweb.

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 ssl-us.astraweb.com:563:25

   1. ⇒ randow array of numbers and [email protected]

[shypike]

What you see are the raw article names. These often contain the name
of the Usenet provider where the data was uploaded.
There's no relation with the server that you use for downloading.

[kulprit]

Cheers for the fast reply shypike. Had been weird to me for a while as before this I was getting eu.news even though i was using us. It seems to go in rounds though as all my files are currently showing giganews, and before they were all showing eu.news.astraweb.

So almost everything in that window except the top part doesn't relate to where I am connecting, just what is coming in?

[shypike]

The headers above the identifiers in "Connections" are the used servers.

Just have a look inside an NZB file, you'll see the same identifiers.

[kulprit]

Thanks again shypike. So the only thing that matters is the
ssl-us.astraweb.com:563:25
and i opened a nzb with wordpad and it does have those lines saying giganews in it, under the section . So really the giganews part is just an internal file name. Cleared up so much for me. Thanks.