NNTP accelerator?

[thomas fisher]

On Sunday 13 January 2008 20:51:04 John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2008 11:27 AM, 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.
> >
> > I set my news reader to local host and the accelerator
> > takes it from there. I was hoping there might be a
> > similar software application for U 7.10 that I could
> > use with PAN.
>
> The software you are talking about is not an accelerator.
> In fact, it is slower than going directly.  (Except, as you note, when
> someone is throttling port 119.)
>
> What you want to use is called "stunnel", for tunneling from one port to
> another.  It will also handle the SSL used with NNTPS on port 563, since
> PAN doesn't do the NNTPS directly.
>
> The best explanation I could find in one minute of Googling was at:
>
http://www.usenet-forums.com/linux-general/74831-stunnel-ssl-nntp-server.html
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Another minute of Googling produced:

http://www.stunnel.org/faq/certs.html

Hope this helps
Tom