SuperNZB
The Newsgroup NZB Downloader

Test Server Window

Use this window to investigate connection problems to your ISP's Usenet server.

Select the server in question from the pop-up list, and then click the Connect button.

You can copy-and-paste any error messages and send them to your Usenet Service Provider.

The lines that begin with an arrow show the command that SuperNZB is sending to the server.

The line below a command is what the server has returned in response.

For commands where the server sends more than one line, such as the help command, you must look for a period on a line by itself - that will be the last line that the server sends.

If you made a typo when setting up the news server, close the Test Server window first before correcting the typo on the Servers window. The Test Server window will not automatically pick up changes made on the Servers window, so you have to close it, and then re-open it, to test again.

If you can connect successfully, send the "Help" command, and get back the list of commands from the server, then everything is working properly. However, during this process, you are only talking to the main server. A large server farm will have many computers, and if one of them is malfunctioning, you won't get an error message until you try to access one of the newsgroups stored on that server. So, what you need to do is use the "Group" command like this:

group alt.fan.howard-stern

The server should send back a response like this:

211 566032 497526 1063557 alt.fan.howard-stern

If you don't see something like that, send whatever the server responds with to your Usenet Service Provider. They will want the exact text of the error message so that they can track down the problem.