I'll second that. I've been with news.individual.net for a few years
> now, ever since NTL decided that ng wasn't something they cared about.
> ?10 a year and i've yet to have a complaint or a fault.
His ISP blocks news access so he can't access news.individual.net or any other news server between 18:00 and 23:00, that's why he's after a new ISP, not a new news server. He's already got a giganews account but can't access it between those times due to his ISP blocking news access.
Presumably blocking port 119 (NNTP). I think news.individual.net offer alternative port numbers. Yep they do:
I too, use BTinternet and have never used any other. Never had any problems with their own news server. I did use news.individual.net for a while before they started charging, then went back to BT's news server.
Neil
(Reply via group please)
On or around Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:48:39 +0000, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:
and it was my problem anyway. I use the actual IP in the settings, to save it doing lookups (dates from when my ISP had a dodgy nameserver) and, for as far as I know the first time ever, they've changed the IP address of the server. working again now.
On or around Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:26:18 +0000, Neil enlightened us thusly:
BT's server is someone else. Might be Giganews, or might not.
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