[KW802]

Originally Posted by kjhkjh

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I'm registered with http://www.tigerusenet.com/ (I think it's $7.50 a month - for 15GB / month)
This newsserver allows access on ports: 119, 80, 3128, 23, 7000, 8000, 9000

I had to then keep pushing my hosting company to open port 7000 (because they wouldn't open port 119 on a shared hosting plan) eventually they did it. It took 24 hours for them to process this change. They needed to know the ip address of the where the open port was connecting to so I did an ip lookup for news.tigerusenet.com ...

To make your life easier in the future I suggest using port 80 instead. Port 80 is the port that HTML (www.yoursite.com) goes over so it's almost a 'universal' port number. By using port 80 instead of 7000 then if you switch your hosting service to a different company in the future then you'll know that you don't have to go through this all over again with asking them to open up a different port number.