Our servers accept connections on these ports:

• SSL (encrypted, recommended): 563, 443, 465 and 5563
• Standard (not encrypted): 119, 20, 23, 2000, 8080, 9000, 9001 and 9002

All of these work with news.fastusenet.org, euro.fastusenet.org and secure.fastusenet.org. When you use an SSL port, please remember to turn on SSL in your newsreader.

If one port doesn't work, your internet provider or firewall may be blocking it. Try 563 or 443 with SSL first, since port 443 is rarely blocked.

Our servers use a trusted SSL certificate, so newsreaders that check certificates, such as SABnzbd and NZBGet, connect without warnings.