virgin media news server

[voddyman]

Hi, I ve been using virgins own news server for downloading NZB's for a while now with no probs, but for some reason it's stopped working altogether, it just says "offfline (connect on demand)" ? I have a couple of other free servers that are working although painfully slow, does anyone have any idea as to what my problem might be?
Thanks in advance

[Bandit1.3]

Hi i use vm newservers and they are working now but are slow they do show from time to time no connection this is a free service and virgin media do not offer support when you have problems with the news server side . They do slow down between paek periods i use for large file after midnight or 7am in the morning. What area are you in .

[Lacutas]

working fine in Manchester, no problems after midnight and before 6am, peak times will run 1 meg/sec upto about 3 gig, then will choke.

[Bandit1.3]

Hi yes that's seems to be the norm in in the west midland's.

[voddyman]

Hi, thanks for replies. I live in the north east Middlesbrough area. I ve not tried downloading through the night or very early morning before as I never needed to as virgin was working great, i was getting 3.5 meg. But like i said for some unknown reason it's stopped working altogether when I've tried using it through the day and early evenings when I usually download stuff. Thing is I don't really download that much, so I can't be getting capped. Tis very strange indeed.

[voddyman]

I think I've sussed whats happening it's to do with the newsleecher I was using, it's corrupted and also the 30 day retention that virgin have on files. . So I've tried Sabnzbd programme with the firefox addon and it's working fine and I'm getting 3.8 meg download speed. I'll just have to make sure I only try to download files that are within the virgin 30 day limit.

[kingste]

hi sorry to but in but i pay for a newssever, newshosting and
use grabit can some one please tell me how i get the free one
off virgin i am on virgin broadband

thanks

[Bandit1.3]

Hi input newsvirginmedia.com in host name the retension is short i think its 7 or 10 days so only ok for new stuff.

[voddyman]

Hi Kingste, I'm no expert at this as you can tell ,lol. But if you input the following news.virginmedia.com into the host name/add server and you should be ok with that.
Also as Bandit says it does have a sort retention limit, which I think is 30 days, so you need to be off your mark to get what you want.
I've sent you a link in a private message for a website that's good for new release stuff
Good Luck,

[kingste]

hi iv type newsvirginmedia.com in
my hostname and i get a pop up
saying unable to connect to usenet sever
can anyone help me