NNTP accelerator?

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:27:41 -0800 (PST)
Rick Barry <existentialsailor at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. Many ISP's, at least in
> the US throttle the speed of the common ports used for
> NNTP such as port 119 and others. In windows I used an
> accelerator that was supplied by my usenet service
> which used port 563 instead and was able to download
> at the speed I'm paying my ISP for. 
> 

port 563 is the standard IANA port for NTTPS (NTTP over SSL). So what
happens if you tell your newsreader to use NTTPS ? 

IF it still doesn't work, ask the ISP for the technical details to
make it work, if they won't tell you, take your business to a more
enlightened ISP.