Cant access virgin media newsgroup

[blade85]

I cant get on it.

every time i try it says access denied! Is it cause i was originally on a telewest connection??

by the way, im using grabit.

[Virgin Media]

If you were a Telewest customer then its news.blueyonder.com, I think. No username or password.

news.virginmedia.com is what it should be for all ex-NTL/Telewest customers but they simply haven't bothered sorting it out.

...And ot top it off... their UseNet access is suffering from damaged files and incompletion.

[Euromancer]

news.blueyonder.com works well although the retention stiniks

[blade85]

is that with port 119?? cause now the message says "Unable to connect"

I have used a pay service before so i know the program works fine.

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by blade85

is that with port 119?? cause now the message says "Unable to connect"

I have used a pay service before so i know the program works fine.

even though you are ex telewest try news.cable.ntlworld.com or news.ntlworld.com

[blade85]

those were the first ones i tried...none of them work

maybe i should try it with another news reader..

the news.cable.ntlworld.com server doesn't need you to log in - have you set up grabit with blank fields for username & pass?

- have you tried it with outlook express?

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by blade85

those were the first ones i tried...none of them work

maybe i should try it with another news reader..

yes, i use them with outlook express and they work fine

[bioboy]

The news.ntlworld.com and news.cable.ntlworld.com news servers have always required a password in the 5 or 6 years I've been using them. I've always used Grabit and put my ntl username and password into the username and password boxes in the server properties tab.

To be fair I stopped using ntl's newsgroups a year ago since they removed loads of the best groups. I now use Newshosting and get unlimited downloads from all the newsgroups for less than £8 per month. Retention is around 45 days compared to an average of 7 days with VM, they carry all the big binary groups and you can get around 70 days retention if you use NZB files to download. Their completion is far superior too.

Bill

They have never needed a password in same amount of time ive used them

[bioboy]

Fair enough, but I once installed Grabit on another PC and forgot to put in a username and password in Grabit and I got the same message as the original poster. Are you using Grabit too?

Bill

[bilal]

Well I know someone with blueyonder and as far as I remember you need to put blueyonder address in and your username and password and then it will work

Just tested it again on newsbin pro and you still do not need a username ill just try it on grabit although I already knwo the results are you do not need a passowrd for the ntl newsserver brb

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yep as I knew you dont need a user name or password

as far as telewest is concerned I do not know

[bioboy]

Interesting. So what's to stop anybody who isn't with VM using the news servers?

[blade85]

I'll try it with my username and pass when i get back home

might check out newshost aswell.