Tiscali News Server Down

Anyone else having problems with the Tiscali News Server.
Appears to be down at present.
Martin C

Martin C formulated the question :
> Anyone else having problems with the Tiscali News Server.
> Appears to be down at present.
> Martin C

It has been down since the 10th or 11th.

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"Martin C" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:gprlp3$2pn$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Anyone else having problems with the Tiscali News Server.
> Appears to be down at present.
> Martin C


The Tiscali one is dire at the best of times, consequently I
haven't used it for years.
Use a third-party one such as
news.motzarella.org, you need to sign up on their website, it's free.

Bonus is it lets you use port 443 with SSL.
You will no doubt be aware that Tiscali are not averse to blocking
traditional Usenet port 119 traffic at peak times.

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In message <(E-Mail Removed)> , Harry
Bloomfield <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>Martin C formulated the question :
>> Anyone else having problems with the Tiscali News Server.
>> Appears to be down at present.
>> Martin C
>
>It has been down since the 10th or 11th.
>


What you are seeing is traffic shaping on the NNTP port. Freedom2Surf
(aka Tiscali) claim they don't block ports but any reduction in
throughput is down to data throttling. For me traffic from any news
server goes to zero on port 119 for around 5 or 6 hours each evening.

I've requested a MAC and F2S in reply suggest that I sign up for a 12
month contract with another 3 months free!
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"Martin C" <(E-Mail Removed)> considered Wed,
18 Mar 2009 20:33:07 -0000 the perfect time to write:

>Anyone else having problems with the Tiscali News Server.
>Appears to be down at present.
>Martin C
>
It's a weekday evening - that's normal service.

"Graham." <(E-Mail Removed)> considered Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:18:47 -0000
the perfect time to write:

>
>
>"Martin C" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:gprlp3$2pn$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Anyone else having problems with the Tiscali News Server.
>> Appears to be down at present.
>> Martin C
>
>
>The Tiscali one is dire at the best of times, consequently I
>haven't used it for years.
>Use a third-party one such as
>news.motzarella.org, you need to sign up on their website, it's free.
>
>Bonus is it lets you use port 443 with SSL.
>You will no doubt be aware that Tiscali are not averse to blocking
>traditional Usenet port 119 traffic at peak times.

I couldn't even get 443 to work on APN on weekday evenings.

A MAC provided the solution.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Alan
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes

>What you are seeing is traffic shaping on the NNTP port.

Are you downloading binaries?

I connect to a news server every ten minutes. Looking at the logs,
since Monday there has been one connection failure.

>I've requested a MAC and F2S in reply suggest that I sign up for a 12
>month contract with another 3 months free!

Ugh. Not good.

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In message <jp+r+(E-Mail Removed)>, Mike Tomlinson
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Alan
><(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>
>>What you are seeing is traffic shaping on the NNTP port.
>
>Are you downloading binaries?

No, half a dozen low bandwidth text only groups

>
>I connect to a news server every ten minutes. Looking at the logs,
>since Monday there has been one connection failure.

Tiscali have been blocking traffic through my exchange every evening for
the past 2 months.

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Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

Martin C has brought this to us :
> Anyone else having problems with the Tiscali News Server.
> Appears to be down at present.
> Martin C

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/forums/show...&page=18&pp=15

Tiscali's own forum (above) would be a good place to complain.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk