No longer downloading; out of troubleshooting ideas

[hellfrick]

Hi! For the last two days, I've had zero luck downloading. I'm on a Mac 10.6.8. I'm running SABNZBD 0.7.13. My Newshosting account is in good standing (coincidentally--or not?--this happened right as my lastest paid-in-full month began). However, my transfer speed has dropped to zero, and more than half the time, when re-starting SABNZBD, I get frozen on during "Stopping..."

I haven't changed my settings ever for this application, nor have I ever had a problem (I think this program is great!).

Any suggestions for what else I can try?

Thanks!

[shypike]

Try the Test button in Config->Servers.
What's the result?

[hellfrick]

When I click the TEST button, the button goes gray and stays gray.

Here's something else I just noticed: Under Bandwidth, it says my Total = 7.0TB; but the rest (TODAY, THIS WEEK, THIS MONTH) are all "0 B"

[shypike]

What happens if you open Applications->Utilities->Terminal and type:
tty servername 119
where "servername" is the hostname of your Usenet provider.
You should see a signon of the Usenet server.

[hellfrick]

Hi. I wish I were more Terminal-savvy. I entered what you suggested and this is what comes up: "/dev/ttys000
stephenalts-mac-pro:~ saltobello$"

I'm not sure what that means.

[shypike]

My apologies, got my brain cells in a twist.
It should be:
telnet servername 119

[sander]

My apologies, got my brain cells in a twist.
It should be:
telnet servername 119

... replace 'servername' with the full name of your newsserver (for example nova.planet.nl)

[hellfrick]

Terminal didn't make any difference. Thanks, though!

Without me changing anything, it randomly came back for a day. And now I'm back to 0B/s again. Intermittent problems are the worst!