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In the last couple of days our ISP service changed from MAX/128 to MAX/MAX speed. Since the change I cannot connect to the news service that I use. I thought at first that it happened when I changed to 0.4.6 so I went back to 0.4.5 and still the same. Any thoughts?

Thanks

Check your ISP's website to see if they changed anything.
Do they still have the service? Do they require a username/password now?
Did the server names chnage?

If you're on Windows, use one of the many other news readers to test.
Try Grabit for instance.

Otherwise open a command prompt (Windowsey-R cmd.exe).
and type this:

telnet server-name 119

and see if you get a greeting message from the server.

Hi shypike

Thanks for response. I should have posted more detail. I have since checked ISP as suggested and made one change to Modulation.

I am running Mac OS X 10.5.5 on Dual G5, Safari 3.1.2 and SABnzbd+ 0.4.5.

Situation now - I can connect to news server, speed starts to climb and then within 30 secs, drops to 2KB/s. I start getting timeout messages on threads. I do notice that early on in my download sessions, connection runs slower (100KB/s), but during latter half of session I can run up to 850KB/s. I have set up a download for tonight on both SSL and no SSL.

I will let you know what happens.

regards
chessman

Hi shypike

Had problems with various ports on SSL and no SSL, but it settled down on SSL port 80. Looks like it is a contention issue on the network or a ISP shaping traffic. I will keep informed if it changes. I have now gone back to 0.4.6 and it is running at 850KB/s.

Thanks
chessman