topic Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet? in Everything else

Is there a current problem with Usenet?

BertCoules — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:15:12 GMT

Both yesterday and today I've had very patchy connection to Usenet, with brief periods where everything was OK and much longer ones with no connection at all. As I type this (19:14 on Sunday 24th November) the service is down.

Since my setup is working properly some of the time, I suspect that the problem doesn't lie at my end - but can anyone please confirm that?

I'm using Thunderbird 128.3 running on a Windows 10 desktop PC. The email side of the program is fine, even when the Usenet connection is down.

Many thanks.

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:09:35 GMT

I haven't used or tried usenet in many a year, but I successfully telneted to port 119 using hostname usenet.plus.net and got a reply from giganews.

(I'm on a fullfibre connection, and any info relating to usenet for that sort of account doesn't easily appear on the PN website)

I did however stumble over a bit of the community website that appears to not be linked into the forums. Plenty of broken weblinks there IMO.

https://community.plus.net/t5/Library/bg-p/library

"USENET continues to be a popular place for veteran Internet users"

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

jab1 — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:14:11 GMT

"USENET continues to be a popular place for veteran Internet users"

From a 2015 post?

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

BertCoules — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:05:17 GMT

Grumble, thanks for that. So perhaps the fault is at my end, though I can't think what it might be, given that I changed nothing between the bouts of the connection working and it not working. More investigation is required, clearly.

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

BertCoules — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:20:31 GMT

As of this morning, it's working again.

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

BertCoules — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:55:27 GMT

...But not for long. On-again, off-again several times today.

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:17:53 GMT

Quelle surprise!

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:24:44 GMT

I successfully telneted to port 119 using hostname usenet.plus.net and got a reply from giganews. Again.

But that's just me.

Re: Is there a current problem with Usenet?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:26:05 GMT

It turned up on a web search.