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Alt.Binz (English) => Help => Topic started by: kdub on January 11, 2009, 01:46:38 am

Title: cant connect to hitnews?
Post by: kdub on January 11, 2009, 01:46:38 am
im trying to fetch the groups from hitnews and its just flashing "connecting" and "fetching from groups" really fast, iv tried putting my login and password in the server setup, yes i pressed apply lol still not connecting though, please help ???
Title: Re: cant connect to hitnews?
Post by: DM8Mydog on January 11, 2009, 01:52:03 am
hitnews will not work with all ISPs, are you sure it works with yours?
Title: Re: cant connect to hitnews?
Post by: davidq666 on January 11, 2009, 12:02:23 pm
im trying to fetch the groups from hitnews and its just flashing "connecting" and "fetching from groups" really fast, iv tried putting my login and password in the server setup, yes i pressed apply lol still not connecting though, please help ???

You do know that the fetched groups will only show up in the newsgroups tab? if it's still empty after lets say 5 min contact hitnews support. maybe hitnews doesn't support xpat any more... xennews doesn't support is.

fetching the groups in the search tabs has nothing to do with hitnews and is done otherwise

if you want to check if pw and accountname arre correct double-click the hitnews-server in settings.
Title: Re: cant connect to hitnews?
Post by: kdub on January 12, 2009, 09:00:50 pm
ok so its been working all day, now all of a sudden it wont connect  ??? just keeps sayin could not connect retry in 10 seconds and goes over and over :( please help lol
Title: Re: cant connect to hitnews?
Post by: DM8Mydog on January 12, 2009, 09:31:40 pm
what is the exact error message?
Title: Re: cant connect to hitnews?
Post by: kdub on January 13, 2009, 12:34:39 am
it wasnt an error message it just wouldnt connect but its connected now  :) i emailed the support and they said it was a problem with their routers or something but their status page didnt mention anything, i cant believe how long i used torrents for i feel so dumb! newsgroups f***ing rock! ;D
Title: Re: cant connect to hitnews?
Post by: Hecks on January 13, 2009, 12:44:59 am
OK, since we've established that this isn't an Alt.Binz issue:

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