Kirby4321
join:2009-11-03
Westwood, MA
| reply to sprintster
Re: Earthlink usenet bandwidth limit reinstated?
Yeah, Earthlink had some major problem mid-month, and they didn't report it as an outage on their site either. I have the feeling they do not really want subscribers finding out they offer newsgroup access.
The newsgroup limit is definitely 50gb. I'm on my last account now. I wonder if they're going to continue to cut it further. Back in the dial-up days they only had a limit of 5gb! |
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sprintster
join:2004-11-30
San Jose, CA | reply to Kirby4321
That bandwidth limit seems to be getting smaller and smaller for every account I use... *sigh*
What is it now? 50GB? |
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dbarber
join:2000-07-25
West Chester, PA
2 edits | reply to Eddie
said by Eddie :
dbarber, I'm still unable to ping any of the nntp/east/west names today, odd that they are back for you.
Do you know whose DNS servers you are using? I just checked, and I can STILL ping news.east.earthlink.net. I am using GTE's DNS servers (4.2.2.1 , 4.2.2.2). If you are using different DNS servers, your results may vary.
Donn
edit: DNS just went down AGAIN. I don't know what to tell you other that to use IP address (216.168.3.70).
edit2: at 11:30AM EST I can ping by name again.
GO FIGURE!
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mindspring
@sbcglobal.net
| reply to Eddie
Trying the fqdn examples from Dr. Olds' post on p2 »Re: Earthlink usenet bandwidth limit reinstated?
Seems things might be in a state of flux wrt fqdnames. |
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Eddie
@verizon.net | reply to dbarber
dbarber, I'm still unable to ping any of the nntp/east/west names today, odd that they are back for you. |
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mcf57
join:2006-08-17
Cumming, GA
| reply to sprintster
OK, I got it to work again. That was easier than I thought. I got confused and thought maybe the 216.168.3.70 IP that was posted here had to be somehow plugged into some Windows network connection setting or something. I made it out to be harder than it had to be.
I use Newsleecher and simply put 216.168.3.70 into its server address settings. WAALA!!! success.
I take it then that there is no download/bandwidth cap like before, correct? |
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dbarber
join:2000-07-25
West Chester, PA
| reply to AnonDebugger
As of a few minutes ago (1:40 AM EST), I can ping the Earthlink news servers by name again. I am in the middle of downloading at present, so I'm not going to change the setup in Newsbin Pro at this time.
Anybody got any idea what happened that they dropped off DNS?
Donn
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AnonDebugger
@pacbell.net
| reply to sprintster
Interesting.
Found this thread via googling - similar to the last poster, and also for the first time tonight, via AT&T DSL, I couldn't resolve nntp.earthlink.net via their resolver, but hardcoding the IP address of 216.168.3.70 into the newsreader works just fine. |
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mcf57
join:2006-08-17
Cumming, GA
| reply to sprintster
OK, so tonight was the first time EVER that I couldn't connect to my normal Earthlink usenet server at news.east.earthlink.net. I got the following error:
"connect: WSocketResolveHost: cannot convert host address 'news.east.earthlink.net', Error #11004"
I figured it was either a temporary thing, Earthlink eliminated their newsgroup access like so many others have been doing or I reached a cap.
I came here and I'm thinking it looks like there has now been a bandwidth cap limit of around 50GB. Is this correct? Or is there maybe some other way to resolve this error?
I saw someone post about using a IP method. How is that exactly used and set up on my PC?
If it is a cap limit, where can I go to find out what my useage is at any given point like they used to do in the past. |
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sprintster
join:2004-11-30
San Jose, CA | reply to Eddie
thanks.
i found nothing of the outage on earthlink's support page, but thanks to you kind folk, i was able to resolve the news server via ip. |
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Eddie
@verizon.net
| reply to Doctor Olds
Doctor Olds, it is working by IP. Very strange. I have a feeling I use the 4.2.2.1 , 4.2.2.2 DNS servers dbarber mentioned but I've never had a problem until now. Well, other than back in the old days when east would crap out and I'd switch to west or vice versa. I can't check easily at the moment but those addresses look very familiar. I'll keep pinging east/west/nntp and see if they come back. |
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dbarber
join:2000-07-25
West Chester, PA
| reply to Doctor Olds
Normally, I use GTE's DNS servers (4.2.2.1 , 4.2.2.2) which will NOT resolve Earthlink's news servers. On one of my machines I run magicJack, and I use different DNS servers (67.90.152.122 , 67.107.1.186) which DO resolve the Earthlink news servers.
Go figure!
In the mean time, I just stay connected by IP address.
Donn
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
clubs:
| reply to Eddie
This is what I see running the names.
-> news.east.earthlink.net.
alias = nntp.earthlink.net.
-> nntp.earthlink.net.
alias = earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net.
-> news.west.earthlink.net.
alias = nntp.earthlink.net.
-> demonews.mindspring.com.
alias = earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net.
-> earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net.
alias = earthlink.us.supernews.com.
All of those point to earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net and finally to earthlink.us.supernews.com both at IP 216.168.3.70
Right now it looks like none of the names are resolving, but the IP 216.168.3.70 does work, have you tried that?
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dbarber
join:2000-07-25
West Chester, PA
| reply to Eddie
I'm not sure what is going on, but I CAN connect to the news servers by the IP address given by Doctor Olds  . Any attempt to connect by server name times out. Attempting to ping by server name gives the following result:
Unknown host news.east.earthlink.net.
MAYBE they'll get it fixed sometime!
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Eddie
@verizon.net
| reply to sprintster
I haven't been capped until now but I just got an error because news.east.earthlink.net, news.west.earthlink.net, etc all dropped off the net!?
Gotta love how in the quoted letter Earthlink is giving us the "opportunity to upgrade" yet the quoted prices are a whopping 0% discount from a regular Giganews account. You'd think they'd at least be knocking off $5 or $10 with some kind of bulk rate deal. As others have said the nntp was the main reason I've kept multiple Earthlink accounts alive, DSL and dialup. Back when it was in-house capped I was cycling thru user names on a weekly basis. |
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Kirby4321
join:2009-11-03
Westwood, MA
| reply to sprintster
I just had my second account go belly up. I got 61 gb out of it before the "exceeded bandwidth" message popped up. So Earthlink has dropped the newsgroup download limit to about 50gb. It usually waits until you finish downloading, hence the extra GBs. But I think it has a hard cut off time at around noon. And the reset time is about 1:50 am on the last day of the month! |
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Kirby4321
join:2009-11-03
Westwood, MA
| reply to sprintster
I have been averaging about 105Gb per month per account since Earthlink reinstated its download limit a couple of months ago. Today, my first account went belly up after only three days and 49Gb downloaded with the notice that I've exceeded my monthly bandwidth. Did Earthlink cut the download limit again to 50Gb?
I'll log back in if my second account cuts out on me. |
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mcf57
join:2006-08-17
Cumming, GA | reply to sprintster
OK, so even though Giganews now owns Supernews, I guess I still can't get the retention that Giganews offers and will just have to live with the 140 days I get now. Oh well, better than nothing. |
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
clubs:
| reply to mcf57
said by mcf57 :said by Doctor Olds :Now if you are logged in to GigaNews using any one of your "up to" eight Earthlink Email Address/Password credentials then there is a limit as discussed above in this topic. I am using EL usenet servers. Are you saying that you can use Giganews service with EL email address/password credentials? I had heard that Earthlink usenet was now being supplied by Supernews (as of 2008) and then Giganews bought out Supernews. When you pull a single sentence out of a paragraph and use it out of context you get confused.
As an EL customer you can use the one IP address they allow us to connect to. Anything else fails. Since Supernews is Giganews the terms were used interchangeably, but only one IP that resolves to Supernews who is owned by Giganews works with EL credentials with IP 216.168.3.70 aka earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net
news.east.earthlink.net
Official name: earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net
IP address: 216.168.3.70
Aliases: news.east.earthlink.net
nntp.earthlink.net
nntp.earthlink.net
Official name: earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net
IP address: 216.168.3.70
Aliases: nntp.earthlink.net
news.west.earthlink.net
Official name: earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net
IP address: 216.168.3.70
Aliases: news.west.earthlink.net
nntp.earthlink.net
demonews.mindspring.com
Official name: earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net
IP address: 216.168.3.70
Aliases: demonews.mindspring.com
earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net
Official name: earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net
IP address: 216.168.3.70
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mcf57
join:2006-08-17
Cumming, GA
4 edits | reply to Doctor Olds
said by Doctor Olds :Now if you are logged in to GigaNews using any one of your "up to" eight Earthlink Email Address/Password credentials then there is a limit as discussed above in this topic. I am using EL usenet servers. Are you saying that you can use Giganews service with EL email address/password credentials? I had heard that Earthlink usenet was now being supplied by Supernews (as of 2008) and then Giganews bought out Supernews.
I am only getting retention of about 140 days (on news.east.earthlink.net) so if there is someway I can use Giganews with EL e-mail, I could then maybe get the 400+ days of retention. Is this possible? If so, what are the Giganews server addresses to use with EL credentials?
I can live with a cap limit if there is one when accessing Giganews servers since I don't really download a lot, but I was more interested in the higher retention. |
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