Configure Servers
Configure Servers
If you want to download anything, you need to have access to one or more Usenet servers.
These servers can be your own ISP's Usenet server, a free public one or one of the many commercial servers.
For each server you need to specify its parameters.
Note: Check your Usenet provider's documentation for the proper values!
| Host | The DNS name of the server. Example: news.my-isp.com |
| Port | The standard port is 119. Some servers use a different port number. |
| Username | Often you need to supply the user account of your news service subscription. |
| Password | Often you need to supply the password of your news service subscription. |
| Timeout | Time out in seconds for error recovery. Be careful, do not set this to a very low value, your news provider will not like that. A common value is 120. |
| Connections | News providers offer different amounts of simultaneous connections (sometimes called slots). You may need to specify the maximum amount allowed in order to get full speed. |
| SSL | Use a secure connection to the server. Note: not all servers provide this or charge extra. Check your providers documentation! Check also if the port number is correct. |
| Backup Server | (Renamed from "FillServer". Some servers are free, most you have to pay for. Paying is per time-unit or per downloaded amount of data. Sometimes it is useful to specify a primary server that SABnbzd should try to get its data from first, often this is a free server. You can specify additional servers, marked as fill servers that are only used when the primary server does not have the data available. A pay-per-GB server is the typical fill server. Note: you should at least have one primary (non-fill) server. |
An example setup using Newsdemon:
| Host | europe.newsdemon.com |
| Port | 119 |
| Username | user |
| Password | * |
| Timeout | 120 |
| Connections | 8 |
| SSL | (No) |
| Backup Server | (No) |
| Host | us-secure.newsdemon.com |
| Port | 443 |
| Username | user |
| Password | * |
| Timeout | 120 |
| Connections | 8 |
| SSL | (Yes) |
| Backup Server | (Yes) |
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