Can computer read news?
Usenet news is carried by the NNTP service, and if this does not work then you are probably using the wrong name for the NNTP server. The name is often, but not always, news.isp.com (where ‘isp.com’ is the domain name of your Internet Service Provider). Often the name of the news server reveals who is really providing your raw Internet service, where one “front” ISP is back-ended by another larger one. For this reason, South Africans connecting via a small ISP often have success with news.saix.net as the news server name. Can computers disconnect? Windows 95 will sometimes lock up when disconnecting from the Internet. Sometimes this is caused by an AT command that sets the modem to wait indefinitely before concluding that the line has been dropped, but more often the cause is the use of WINS. If you have this problem, try disabling WINS within the properties of TCP/IP on DUN (via Network Properties), but don’t do this if you are accessing the Internet via Internet Connection Sharing in
