Afrihost Usenet Server

Do you make use of Afrihost free usenet server?

  • Yes

    Votes: 56 53.3%
  • No

    Votes: 28 26.7%
  • What is usenet?

    Votes: 21 20.0%

  • Total voters
    105
Last month Axxess, this month Afrihost - haven't got it to work yet, but will try again...
 
SABnzb - tried again just now - slow (20-30KB/s) initially, but at least working, and then slowed to a crawl (probably uncached content and low Int bandwidth?) - thank you for "fixing" something somewhere through...
 
Articles didn't Complete - will retry with more recent content...
 
SABnzb - tried again just now - slow (20-30KB/s) initially, but at least working, and then slowed to a crawl (probably uncached content and low Int bandwidth?) - thank you for "fixing" something somewhere through...
Mine is broken too tonight :-(
 
I am using Afrihost account and trying to use the newsserver:

host: news.afrihost.com
port: 119
connections: 3

Getting this error:

Could not receive data on socket from news.afrihost.com: Error 10060 - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
 
Same on my side - setup fine in SABNzbd and the test connection button passes but if I download the SABNzbd test file I get a timeout and it switches to one of my third party block Usenet suppliers:1709654314503.png

Note that it has been working fine for a long time. Just noticed recently that I am no longer getting much from the afrihost news server.
 
This is what I am getting tonight:1709659119577.png

It pretty much times out on every article then jumps over to my newsgroup direct server to complete it. Very very slow
 
Same on my side - setup fine in SABNzbd and the test connection button passes but if I download the SABNzbd test file I get a timeout and it switches to one of my third party block Usenet suppliers:View attachment 1671387

Note that it has been working fine for a long time. Just noticed recently that I am no longer getting much from the afrihost news server.
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Mine doing the same, servers must be down @AfriNatic?
 
Checking. Looks like a kernel issue. Server has been up for 765 days. Doing some updates and reboot.

Thanks, let us know when its done please.

It's not working. I will swing by Teraco to see what is going on. The losses are causing some serious TCP retransmits which is why it's super slow.
 
#Afrinatic
How about making this available to all users not only Afrihost and Axxess?
Yes, at a monthly cost to those on the "outside".
 
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