Usenetserver.com problems

For the last week or so I have been barley able to get connected properly. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 tries using different ports and switching back and forth from secure and non-secure always with the same outcome of 2-5 connections at a very slow rate of speed and the "502 Authentication Error." and "400 too many connections" error and usually it is a mix like 3 "502 errors" and 4 "400 errors" or whatever. Sometimes late at night it is ok though and it will connect no probs. all 10 going full speed and maxing my connection out. So I started looking on the website a little more and noticed that they are no longer showing a detailed "network status" The usual graph showing incoming, outgoing connections and bandwidth used is gone. :whistling

Anyone else having this issue lately?

Yes I am having the same issues with usentserver especially the 400 too many connections on an off all week...
what are the other ports I could try with usenetserver ?
Thanks!

same issues here, doing my head in.

Exactly same issues as the first poster here.

Already swicthed to Ngroups for now.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by cubbyche

Yes I am having the same issues with usentserver especially the 400 too many connections on an off all week...
what are the other ports I could try with usenetserver ?
Thanks!

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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.

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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:

I was having this as well on the weekend, but seems alright now.

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

all seems to be working now.

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Originally Posted by uncle den

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

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Did they specify whether or not these are SSL encrypted?

On the network status page it says > Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:43:36 GMT

We had a router failure today. All is fixed now, but this event will effect service levels for the next several hours.

We are also aware that many of you are experiencing 400 errors. We are still uncertain of the cause of these errors but looking into them.


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Well i ve been with them for some time, but something is fishy
Copy paste from usenetserver.support newsgroup >

They already know what it is. They apparently don't care enough to fix
it. And it'll never get fixed as long as many of their customers
continue making excuses for the crappy service.
I've heard rumors that UseNetServer sold out to Highwinds Media. I've
dismissed it as just that, rumors. But perhaps there's some truth to
it. Perhaps UseNetServer really did sell out and join other Highwinds
resellers such a Teranews, and NNTPServer. Just a couple of examples of
other unreliable news services.

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I'll change providers any recommendation for the same price ?

cheers

Edit : As for now i can't connect at all. SSL ect..
nntp9.usenetserver.com ,nntp10.usenetserver.com doesn't even work

Any ideas what this routing path is AS23352 ? I get that by default.

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Originally Posted by ruwi

On the network status page it says > Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:43:36 GMT

We had a router failure today. All is fixed now, but this event will effect service levels for the next several hours.

We are also aware that many of you are experiencing 400 errors. We are still uncertain of the cause of these errors but looking into them.


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Well i ve been with them for some time, but something is fishy
Copy paste from usenetserver.support newsgroup >

They already know what it is. They apparently don't care enough to fix
it. And it'll never get fixed as long as many of their customers
continue making excuses for the crappy service.
I've heard rumors that UseNetServer sold out to Highwinds Media. I've
dismissed it as just that, rumors. But perhaps there's some truth to
it. Perhaps UseNetServer really did sell out and join other Highwinds
resellers such a Teranews, and NNTPServer. Just a couple of examples of
other unreliable news services.

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I'll change providers any recommendation for the same price ?

cheers

Edit : As for now i can't connect at all. SSL ect..
nntp9.usenetserver.com ,nntp10.usenetserver.com doesn't even work

Any ideas what this routing path is AS23352 ? I get that by default.

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I have thought something like this may have been going on as well, doubly so since they removed graphs on the network status page. Yesterday I talked to support again and they issued me an additional 14 days free service but what good is it when you cant use it, ya know. To bad really because I am also on the hunt for another provider.

The only other one I know of that is the same price is >http://www.ngroups.net/

But there are many others as well some may not be as cheap but offer better retention and/or SSL:
>http://www.thundernews.com
>http://www.newsdemon.com/
>http://www.giganews.com/
>http://www.newsrazor.net/
>http://www.newsfeeds.com/
>http://www.accessusenet.com/

The one that caught my eye was newsfeeds.com and Thundernews.com So I am wondering if anyone has had any experience with them??

And Power Usenet.

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.

i can't use the service now tell me 400 too many connection,but i always use only 10.. never change...

Can anyone tell me if one of this DON'T HAV auto-renewing same http://www.usenetserver.com/en/index.php ?
http://www.ngroups.net/
>http://www.thundernews.com
>http://www.newsdemon.com/
>http://www.giganews.com/
>http://www.newsrazor.net/
>http://www.newsfeeds.com/
>http://www.accessusenet.com/

I thought my ISP finally was doing some kind of throttling on me. For a little over a week I've been getting slow speeds, and connections errors.

I really think I will be switching over to Giganews before my subscription renews.
This is BS....

I just cancelled, same problems as everyone else

just got giganews, downloading stuff from april 13th at full bandwidth (10 Mb). this rocks

yeah slow as hell here too...

using the 5 server split suggested.

I stopped the autorenewal and will continue using it for the month (whatever I can get, I guess) then I don't know if I should pay for a different one or just use my ISP's...even though it's much slower.

I to stopped auto renew on mine as well, I am going to give http://www.powerusenet.com/ 5 day trial a go and then maybe stick with them. They are comparable price wise to usenetserver and even have a few extra days retention. BTW thanks for suggesting them ne'tu.

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/r192...ction-Problems
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopi...fdea5ad7313b7d
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r193...wnload-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 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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Originally Posted by Broken

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/r192...ction-Problems
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopi...fdea5ad7313b7d
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r193...wnload-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.

newshostng are not profitably ,no ssl ,45/75 days retention.you can take much better for the same money.

anyone try http://www.news.astraweb.com/plans.html looks good?

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Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun

I got the 5 day trial with powerusenet and the speed sucks so I just canceled.

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What kind of conection do you have? :blink:

I'm having Power Usenet now and I like it: I'm maxing out my 6 Mb connection and the retention is good. :)

I'm also having Ngroups but the retention is not that good and many groups are missing so I'll cancel my subscription.

Shame what's happened to Usenetserver. I guess they tried to offer too much too cheaply.

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Originally Posted by Ne'tu

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Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun

I got the 5 day trial with powerusenet and the speed sucks so I just canceled.

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What kind of conection do you have? :blink:

I'm having Power Usenet now and I like it: I'm maxing out my 6 Mb connection and the retention is good. :)

I'm also having Ngroups but the retention is not that good and many groups are missing so I'll cancel my subscription.

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I have a 6Mb down connection and I was lucky to see more than 350-400 KB/s I always usually get between 750-800+ KB/s .

Maybe I did not give it a chance really I was so fed up with usenetserver that when after a day the speed did not get better I canceled and started looking again.

Another UNS user here, at least for this month..

I tried test accounts from Access Usenet (100mb) and NewsDemon (1gig) so far. Not sure how speeds would've been with Access Usenet due to the small download cap. News Demon seems fairly consistent for me, usually staying near by max downstream (12Mbps)

Access Usenet just required an email to get a trial. NewsDemon I had to open an ticket for but I received it within an hour.

I was with AccessUsenet and with 20 Connections my speed was maxing out my 14Mbit connection on the 50GB a month plan for an awesome price (worked out even cheaper if you purchased the year).

However when NGroups.Net had here lifetime Unlimited special last month for $9.99 it was to good to pass up and am also getting max speeds. So guess I will be sticking around for life here unless something cheaper comes along which I don't forsee.

Therefore even at the $14.95 it is now for new subscribers I suggest checking NGroups out also.

Update from usenetserver

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Wed, 7 Nov 2007 03:26:04 GMT

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 don't trust them at all.
I am still looking around for a new provider. PowerUsenet or giganews > Do they offer monthly plan like usenetserver ?

Good luck to all

we shall see what happens.

I'm getting a massive 10k/sec from 8 connections now...let's see what happens tomorrow.. :sneaky:

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"

I have a 12MB line they haven't been close to maxing out is as long as I can remember.

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Originally Posted by soccermatt34

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"

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Where is this offer?

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Originally Posted by backlash

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Originally Posted by soccermatt34

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"

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Where is this offer?

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If you contacted customer support and told them you had Error 400 issues, they gave you an extra free week for the trouble. A+ in my book :-)

I'm maxing my speeds once again; it was only after many phone calls and online chat and level #2 support plus they give me 2 weeks for my headache. I guess you have to be like me and be very, very impatient and uncompromising with your internet service.