usenet

[F Murtz]

Hey All,

Got something strange going on with Bigpond Usenet access.

Works fine at work, on ADSL2+, Windows 7 through Windows live mail.

At home have had occasional loss of access over the last few months,
turning into no service at all over the last few weeks, Using ADSL2+,
Windows XP & outlook express.

Same settings on news.bigpond.com, using port 119. Neither computers
have login / password...

Did try to contact big pond via email via a tech contact that was very
helpful when our exchange had a meltdown, who understood a lot about the
older services like usenet etc, but there is no reply to my email, and I
don't even feel like wasting my time with a call to tech. assistance.

Any ideas from anyone who frequents here would be appreciated...

Cheers,

Gary.


"F Murtz" wrote in message

Tried port 80 still rejected.
when bigpong tech tried it at his end using my particulars on his
machine usenet worked (port 119)
more than one different computers connected through my modem are
rejected by bigpong server.

I have been having trouble for a month
No access from bigpond through port 119 but can from eternal-september
server (with different computers)

Today a tech took controll of my computer with logmein and fiddled,
removed, and changed a few things and now it works.
But I am not convinced it was all my computer as a completely different
computer with no association would not work
When I get time I will fire other computer up and see if it now works.
It may be that they fixed something their end and kept it secret (don't
trust em)

 

[F Murtz]

I have been having trouble for a month
No access from bigpond through port 119 but can from eternal-september
server (with different computers)

Today a tech took controll of my computer with logmein and fiddled,
removed, and changed a few things and now it works.
But I am not convinced it was all my computer as a completely different
computer with no association would not work
When I get time I will fire other computer up and see if it now works.
It may be that they fixed something their end and kept it secret (don't
trust em)

Now it does not work again.
The only thing I have done is changed bigpong password, mail works after
entering new password news does not (news does not ask for password)

 

[F Murtz]

Now it does not work again.
The only thing I have done is changed bigpong password, mail works after
entering new password news does not (news does not ask for password)

Bigpong News has suddenly asked for password and now works.
Dont know whether the server end did it or seamonkey updated itself and
did it, if that were the case it does not explain why IE would not work
but now does ,without being touched.