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Woke up this morning to a whole lot of "unable to connect to news.mweb.co.za".....


Is everyone getting this? Is this what I can expect from Mweb on a weekday?
 
LancelotSA said:
Woke up this morning to a whole lot of "unable to connect to news.mweb.co.za".....


Is everyone getting this? Is this what I can expect from Mweb on a weekday?
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Im getting that to astraweb.
 
LancelotSA said:
On your mweb uncapped account?

So it seems they have shut down access to the news server protocol all together? I am only two days into Mweb... not a good first impression!
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They most likely shut it down because of backlog, but we'll see.
 
Yes, I'm getting the same. It appeared to start early hours of Sunday morning. I've restarted the router, tried PPPoE on my PC and laptop, still no luck. It tries connecting forever, then occasionally gets a connection on one of the two threads, downloads one segment, disconnects and tries to reconnect unsuccessfully.

Pinging news.mweb.co.za [196.28.78.229] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for 196.28.78.229:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 38ms, Maximum = 39ms, Average = 38ms
 
LancelotSA said:
On your mweb uncapped account?

So it seems they have shut down access to the news server protocol all together? I am only two days into Mweb... not a good first impression!
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No they didn't. I can connect to a Netherlands based USENET server. Its just slow. 2-3kbs on 4096k Mweb uncapped.

I think Mweb took the news server down. Since they are on backup bandwidth now the news server will use a lot of that bandwidth if people download uncached stuff.
 
Is seacom finished with their maintenance?

Int sites are also slow so i assuming seacom is not finished.
 
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fuzzyman said:
Yes, I'm getting the same. It appeared to start early hours of Sunday morning. I've restarted the router, tried PPPoE on my PC and laptop, still no luck. It tries connecting forever, then occasionally gets a connection on one of the two threads, downloads one segment, disconnects and tries to reconnect unsuccessfully.

Pinging news.mweb.co.za [196.28.78.229] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=122
Reply from 196.28.78.229: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for 196.28.78.229:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 38ms, Maximum = 39ms, Average = 38ms
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I was up at 3am for some reason and noted that I could only get one connection to the news server... left it at that and then woke up this morning to the "unable to connect" message on that one connection. Now nothing...
 
You can restart your router, come moan on forums, you can even try standing on your head for 20 minutes. It won't change the fact that seacom is running late with maintenance and until they are complete you will struggle :D.
 
Only reason why you cannot access it is because of the Seacom maintenance... by tomorrow or so things should be back to normal.

Plus.. why would you use their news server anyway? I use this combo:

NZB Matrix and Newshosting

NZB Matrix

It is free to register on NZB Matrix, but you only get like 20 days retention (NZB must be 0 - 20 days old in order to download it). There is a small fee (like R80 once off) that you can pay to get like 600 days retention for the next 10 years - its R80... nothing :/

Newshosting

On Mweb's local news server you will be able to get between 2 and 4 connections at the same time.. Newshosting's NHXL Powerpack will cost you about R160/pm, but it will give you 60 connections (Grabit only handles 32 max).

The SSL also comes in very handy...
 
MWEB Operations said:
We’ve been notified by Seacom that due to adverse weather conditions the repairs to the undersea cable are going to take longer than originally expected. The work will only be completed some time tomorrow (27th of April). Our alternative international bandwidth is quite congested so we are shaping heavily on things like peer-to-peer. Thank you for your continued patience.

Regards
MWEB Ops
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You probably won't download much on any news server or p2p till maintenance is done.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?228116-MWEB-SEACOM-Update
 
Yeh obviously its dead now during the maintenance - which should be sorted after that.. but after that.. can't go wrong with Newshosting....
 
I dont understand how seacom can affect local browsing even your own ISP news server?
 
It may not be but mweb have said they are not allowing p2p because the network they are using is not in good shape.
 
the strange thing is my buddy on a 384k line is downloading fine, I seem to be affected on a 4096 line both of us on mweb uncapped? do you think they disconnected the news servers to the "abusers" only??
 
Anyone else experiencing problems on the Mweb news server on 4meg lines?? my pc is connecting fine to the server but is not downloading articles??
 
Can anyone confirm whether the Mweb news server is dead?

I was cruising along at 38K but now nothing. Keep getting unable to connect.
 
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