Rogers NNTP

[Andy Jack]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:31:15PM -0400, SlackRat wrote:
> Does anyone know what the score is with Rogers please?

Within the last month Rogers seems to have outsourced its netnews
operations to Giganews.  "nntp.broadband.rogers.com" and
"nntp.*.phub.net.cable.rogers.com" are now CNAMEs for
"news.isp.giganews.com".  Two connections max, 32kb/s per connection.
Gone are the days of >300kb/s connections to Rogers news servers, as
there are no more Rogers news servers.

The auth problem you are having is because your newsreader is trying to
make >2 concurrent connections.  Find the setting for "max connections"
or "number of conncurrent connections" or something like that and set it
to 2.

Some may feel that their recent marketing of "5 Mbit/s Extreme Edition"
plus the loss of one of their more broadband-specific apps (fat pipe to
newsservers) is a bait-and-switch tactic.  Others may see this as part
of the move of Rogers away from being a content provider/portal to a
provider of cable connectivity to the internet.  Yahoo is now Rogers'
partner for all things email, acct. management, and web content so the
writing was probably on the wall.

You could enter the Rogers $100,000 contest and then pay for whatever
premium news service your heart desires (GigaNews being only one of
these).

Cheers,
Andy
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