BigDish4
join:2005-06-04
Rochester, NY
| [TW] Earthlink Cable Usenet access?
Does Earthlink Cable still offer Usenet access? When I signed up, they had just switched over to Giganews and everything was working for me. For about the last 1-2 months, I've been unable to log in to the usenet server. Earthlink support has been useless :-(
I'm using:
Server:news.east.earthlink.net (or *.west.*)
Username:MyAddress@earthlink.net
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! |
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Mark910
Premium
join:2002-04-21
Dayton, OH
clubs: | Are you required to log in? I had not used it for a while but .east and .west are both working fine for me. |
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BigDish4
join:2005-06-04
Rochester, NY | reply to BigDish4
Yup, requires log in. Does anyone have this working or have any ideas? |
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sonofjay
Mission Accomplished - Bush May 1, 2003
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-14
North Attleboro, MA
 ·Vonage
 ·Earthlink Cable Mo..
| a couple of things to try...
- have you tried creating a second account through earthlink's website and trying to log on with it? (EL allows you to create e up to 8 I believe)
- have you tried nntp.earthlink.net as well?
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BigDish4
join:2005-06-04
Rochester, NY | Yup, a second account hasn't done any good for me. I haven't tried nntp.earthlink, I'll try that now.
Sonofjay, does earthlink's usenet still work for you? |
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CecilTurtle
join:2004-11-16
New York, NY
 ·EarthLink
1 edit | reply to BigDish4
I'm in NYC, and I used EL Usenet a few days ago. I was getting great speeds too (about 600kbps to 900kbps). I used news.east.earthlink.net. The port has to be 119 (I tried another port and couldn't access the newsgroups). I set this port # in my newsgroup software (free Grabit!). You might have to open up the port in your router or software firewall too. (Turn off your firewall and try to access Usenet to test and see if it was blocking you.)
I use www.Newzleech.com to find my stuff and free Grabit! to grab my files. I'm glad I have EL instead of Time Warner (which dumped Usenet) for the Usenet feature alone. I don't use it often, but it's nice to have when I do want something.  |
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sonofjay
Mission Accomplished - Bush May 1, 2003
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-14
North Attleboro, MA
·Vonage
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
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said by BigDish4  :Yup, a second account hasn't done any good for me. I haven't tried nntp.earthlink, I'll try that now. Sonofjay, does earthlink's usenet still work for you? Yes, I tried logging in on Wednesday and it worked for me.
Have you tried using it from a different computer to confirm it is not a local PC issue?
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