Re: shaw usenet in Shaw http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21106902 en Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:38:50 EDT Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:38:50 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21294415 anon : Just noticed today that I can't get more than one connection simultaneously. It was fine last night with 5 active connections. Has anyone else noticed this?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21294415 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:53:54 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21282542 A4merCableGu : Today Friday it seems to be working well again. Perhaps they were updating server equipment or adding more capacity to the system.

Former Cable Guy]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21282542 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:27:03 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21263493 Mustafa : It seems to be working again.

Spoke to soon tested one hour later and it's screwed again!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21263493 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:42:57 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21261135 anon : I'm getting 403 errors (no such article). downloading the headers again did not help.

crap news service + torrent upload throttling + pathetic bandwidth limits...i am seriously considering dropping shaw internet and tv all together. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21261135 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:56:24 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21260742 anon : Missing headers and bodies all over the place this week.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21260742 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:35:56 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21259035 A4merCableGu : Same here in Winnipeg. All msg bodies are not available ... even ones recently posted.

Former Cable Guy]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21259035 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:07:51 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21258508 Mustafa : I tried that.

The strange thing is I can post because I see my post in googlegroups. But when I retrieve the headers my post is there but the message isn't.This is the same for all messages when this happens. It used to only happen rarely but now it seems to be happening more frequently.

Any Ideas?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21258508 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:18:54 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21257421 AnonShawUser : When you get that error, you have to re-download all the headers in your client.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21257421 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:50:12 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21254257 Mustafa : Yes I’m having some problems too. Sometimes I can’t connect, other times it will retrieve headers and then I’ll try to get the message body and it will say this message is no longer available. This is for a text newsgroup. When this happens every message I try to retrieve gives the same “this message is no longer available”.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21254257 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:47:21 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21253959 AnonShawUser : I'm able to get in and grab headers just fine.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21253959 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:43:56 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21253816 anon : The new server was working great for a while now. But today it doesn't connect at all. Is any1 else having problems?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21253816 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:37:22 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21213359 anon : Haven't checked back for awhile I've been wrapped up in Giganews and a new client. Very happy to hear progress on this issue and am refreshing headers to check it out. How important is SSL in your opinion? With Shaw upgrading it suggests this will be a protected service for at least the immediate future.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21213359 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:23:01 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21202195 AnonShawUser : no SSL, up to 5 connections. Default settings on nearly any binary client should be good enough.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21202195 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:14:39 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21198598 rvd_06 : Is there any SSL and what are the max connections?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21198598 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:38:50 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21196572 AnonShawUser : shawnews.cg.shawcable.net, default port, no user/pass as it's limited by IP address for access.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21196572 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:47:04 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21196125 rvd_06 : Hi, how do I connect to shaw's newsgroups? What address, port, user, pass do I need to access the newsgroup using alt.binz?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21196125 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:44:16 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21171333 anon : Check to make sure you are posting using text and not html.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21171333 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:03:25 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21170951 anon : I've also enjoyed Shaw's usenet service right from the beginning when they first started offering broadband, over a decade now. Shaw's had some glitches over the years, but they've always recovered within a day or two. I've noticed over the years that spottiness usually precedes an upgrade, so I've gotten used to it.

Now, the problem I'm having is with just basic text posting and I've getting a server rejection error based on a filter someone's apparently set. At first it was intermittent, but is now a solid block. I've read their acceptable use policy and I haven't violated it. I've tested the binary downloading with a binary grabber and even though I can only now use 6 concurrent threads, it still seems to work somewhat okay.

This is the Live mail error I'm getting:

Unable to send or receive messages for the Kree8R account. Windows Live Mail could not post your message.

Subject 'Re: Is W. Incompetent or an Evil Genius?'
Server Error: 441
Server Response: 441 Posting Failed (Rejected by POST filter)
Server: 'shawnews.vc.shawcable.net'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCCA9
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119
Secure(SSL): No]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21170951 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:52:42 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21147171 pfak :
said by dazman09 :

Interesting that Highwinds company is located in the same city in florida as Newshosting (great newsgroup company).
Highwinds is owned by PureGig, which is Easynews.
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Xenophase - British Columbia's premier online gaming community.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21147171 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:32:50 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21144262 anon : Interesting that Highwinds company is located in the same city in florida as Newshosting (great newsgroup company).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21144262 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:41:55 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21142482 Ommina : I'm getting "Connection Refused" errors now when trying to connect to the (new highwinds-media) servers. Anybody else seeing this or is it unique to me?

Edit: It's connecting again, so whatever it was, seemed to be transient.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21142482 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:02:16 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21133972 anon : If you ping your shawnews server it is now returning a newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com as the actual server. They are farming it out.

Unfortunately the speed is terrible and all over the place. I used to be able to run the edmonton calgary, victoria and winnipeg servers all at once to get 10 Mbps, now I'm lucky to hold 2 Mbps. Retention and completion are far better though. I've always had a giganews account to fill in the holes, may not need it anymore.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21133972 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:37:37 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21111897 ErikRP : Wow - nice to hear Shaw has switched providers. Of course it would be even better if we had uncapped speeds (limited by our normal connection rate that is) but this is a good start!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21111897 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:58:27 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21108079 anon : This new service is impressive. I updated a binaries group last night and grabbed over 1 million headers. 1,000,000 headers! It took over 10 minutes to grab just the headers at 300 kB.

Retention is amazing. Me = happy.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21108079 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:27:15 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106902 anon : just checked the newsgroups after nearly giving up on them.... i'm speechless...nearly 30 day retention and not a incomplete in sight. and the group i thought i had vainly requested is now there

thanks shaw]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106902 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:25:18 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21083780 memacmur : This is the reason it pays to lurk on these forums. I will check this out after work. Much like Maddog, I normally find shaw's free service more than sufficient for my needs, but not enjoying the recent state of the shaw news servers.

I still think Shaw's motivation for maintaining newsgroups should be this simple fact - if more people were leeching content from newsgroups, less would be eating up valuable bandwidth uploading with P2P clients.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21083780 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:32:35 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21081655 inetspec :
said by Ommina See Profile :

said by inetspec See Profile :

Actually, quite the contrary. I got a tip on Shaw's new news feed, its news.shawcable.net, and I can get nice speeds on 5 connections. Retention looks to be fairly decent too, around 30 days.
Ya know, I admit I was fairly incredulous when I read that, but I figured for the sake of 30 seconds to add a server and hit the update button, that I'd try it out.

I am... well, quite honestly, nothing less than amazed. Granted, I didn't check the world's busiest group, but the oldest post was 29 days, and I counted maybe a dozen incomplete posts in the month.

The cynic in me says "they're going to turn it into a premium add on, just you wait". But I hope not.

Thanks for the note!
Welcome. I don't think that will happen. The service has always been part of the core internet service for Shaw.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21081655 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:44:13 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21080958 AnonShawUser : Strange. I haven't heard of this, and when I try to connect, unable to find host. might just be a server glitch right now or something, since pings are successful: newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21080958 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:38:18 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21080028 Ommina :
said by inetspec See Profile :

Actually, quite the contrary. I got a tip on Shaw's new news feed, its news.shawcable.net, and I can get nice speeds on 5 connections. Retention looks to be fairly decent too, around 30 days.
Ya know, I admit I was fairly incredulous when I read that, but I figured for the sake of 30 seconds to add a server and hit the update button, that I'd try it out.

I am... well, quite honestly, nothing less than amazed. Granted, I didn't check the world's busiest group, but the oldest post was 29 days, and I counted maybe a dozen incomplete posts in the month.

The cynic in me says "they're going to turn it into a premium add on, just you wait". But I hope not.

Thanks for the note!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21080028 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:08:27 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21077327 inetspec : Actually, quite the contrary. I got a tip on Shaw's new news feed, its news.shawcable.net, and I can get nice speeds on 5 connections. Retention looks to be fairly decent too, around 30 days.

Looks like Shaw is not like other ISPs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21077327 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:27:55 EDT Re: shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21077129 anon : I don't think it's much of a secret to anyone that the completion rates on Shaw news servers have been pretty bad for a long time. I'd imagine that it's a pretty strong indication that they're no longer being maintained properly and are currently being neglected/phased out.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21077129 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:54:12 EDT shaw usenet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21076774 anon : I've been enjoying shaw usenet for a couple years now and have seen several ups and downs. Recently though the percentage of incomplete is just insane. For a couple weeks now it has been all but unusable. I realize this is a bonus feature and I will get no support on this issue(I tried). In researching I see some major american ISP's have discontinued this service this summer. Does anyone here think Shaw's recent problems may indicate a termination of this service? I signed up for a giganews trial to see if it's worth it but I'd really like to be able to just use the shaw service because I find it suits my needs and capacity. TIA]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21076774 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:41:08 EDT