Free binaries at cheapernews.com this week
Cheapernews Admin Team
gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of
articles, both binaries and text.
Please give us a hand by testing things out -
The server is:
No username/password is required.
SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections
per host.
Sorry, we don't support posting.
We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as
we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan
is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
Thanks for helping us out!
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news:4a4825d2$0$13472$248e...@go.away.now:
> The server is:
>
> stresstest.cheapernews.com
>
> No username/password is required.
>
> SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections
> per host.
>
>
Is SSL required or optional??
chuckcar
news:Xns9C3997364BD2...@85.214.105.209:
Optional - always.
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Robert Miles
news:4a4825d2$0$13472$248e...@go.away.now...
I've set it up under Windows Mail on a 64-bit Vista SP2 computer.
So far, it has allowed me to download the newsgroups list and the
headers for two of the newsgroups I subscribed to, but few of the
bodies of the messages.
trends.fido.diabetes
uk.rec.birdwatching.
and so on.
It gives a few years worth of headers, but is rather slow at
getting the bodies of the messages (apparantly only about a
year's worth) ready to download.
Robert Miles
elaich
$Uf1...@bignews2.bellsouth.net:
> It gives a few years worth of headers, but is rather slow at
> getting the bodies of the messages (apparantly only about a
> year's worth) ready to download.
Seems very unreliable. I know they said it may be down at times, but even
when it's up, it's lousy. They are probably throttling downloads from free
users, hoping that the paid ones make up the bandwidth they are hoping to
get. Just another SPAM.
George Kamenz
>"Robert Miles" <rober...@bellsouthNOSPAM.net> wrote:
>
>> It gives a few years worth of headers, but [...]
>
>Seems very unreliable. I know they said it may be down at times,
>but [...]
>=- at around 2009-06-29 11:55:00 PM
Gosh. I never even managed to get a connection. Not even one.
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seconds this time yesterday. Haven't been looking at it too often since
then.
I'm only on a 1.4 Mbs line so it doesn't take much to fill up my pipe. . .
(adds to my 1 Mbs normal feed from Astraweb).
"George Kamenz" <g...@foo.bar.baz.INVALID> wrote in message
news:xn0gc0t1...@news.motzarella.org...
J...@fu.ass
<suppor...@cheapernews.com> wrote:
8 connections filled my 6meg DSL pipe. I grabbed a few things last
night and today.
Thanks! };->
J.P.
Lenny_Nero
It might be that they are testing a server to get it working 100%, but I
expect that everything you do works 100% from the word go.
Working fine here, just two connections fill 70% of my ADSL2+ using basic
(non SSL) MSG-ID and GROUP cmds to start, pulling stuff at 50+ days.
I will test SSL later.
Cheers.
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Robert Miles
news:4a4825d2$0$13472$248e...@go.away.now...
I just tried the combination of the Windows Mail newsreader and SSL.
It failed on every newsgroup, with error messages such as:
Your 'alt.als' folder was not polled for its unread count. Account:
'stresstest.cheapernews.com', Server: 'stresstest.cheapernews.com',
Protocol: NNTP, Port 563, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061,
Error Number: 0x800CCCOE
Header download for the 'alt.als' folder did not complete. Account:
'stresstest.cheapernews.com', Server: 'stresstest.cheapernews.com',
Protocol: NNTP, Port 563, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061,
Error Number: 0x800CCCOE
All the other newsgroups failed with the same Socket Error and
Error Number, including misc.support.diabetes, a newssgroup
busy enough that it should have new messages every day. This
happened both on binaries newsgroups and text-only newsgroups.
I then turned off SSL, and it let me download headers of messages,
but few of the bodies before it stopped responding.
Note - I've seen signs that Windows Mail does not handle the
combination of SSL, but no username and no password, well.
Could you modify the server so that it allows the user to send a
username and password, but then pays no attention to exactly
what they were?
Robert Miles
Robert Miles
news:4a4825d2$0$13472$248e...@go.away.now...
When Windows Mail is used as the newsreader, the server offers a few
years of headers for the XOVER downloads, but often stops responding
before all of them are downloaded. Also, if any attempt is made to
download the bodies of messages older than about 200 days, the server
stops responding if in a binaries newsgroup, and is very slow to respond
in a text-only newsgroup. As a result, the download is unlikely to
complete successfully.
Windows Mail doesn't seem to offer any way to cancel download
requests for which the server does not respond, so I haven't been able
to tell it to restrict downloads to messages less than 200 days old.
Attempts to download just one post at a time seem to work, but
more slowly than on other servers, at least when the message is less than
200 days old.
It's not easy to test multiple connections using the Windows Mail
newsreader - I've seen no sign that that newsreader offers any option
to set how many connections are used, and it seems to use only one
at a time.
Robert Miles
James
near 200 couple days ago.
whosbest54
<732d8faf-4193-4d7f...@37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>,
j006...@hotmail.com says...
>0.24 kB/s today. Must have a lot of users on this holiday. It was
>near 200 couple days ago.
>
It appears to be done. Connection refused today.
Thanks to Cheapernews for the free bandwidth while it lasted.
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chuckcar
> "Cheapernews Admin Team" <suppor...@cheapernews.com> wrote in
> message news:4a4825d2$0$13472$248e...@go.away.now...
>> We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20
>> gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of
>> articles, both binaries and text.
>>
> It's not easy to test multiple connections using the Windows Mail
> newsreader - I've seen no sign that that newsreader offers any option
> to set how many connections are used, and it seems to use only one
> at a time.
>
Solution: get a *real* newsreader. Windows mail and it's predecessor OE
are crippled free software designed for little more than allowing
someone to start using email once they have a computer. Academic for
that server, but really, use something meant for usenet.