We have only one server address. news.alibis.com . We have multiple server farms across the US and globe but all will answer to this address. Loads are shifted to the server farm with least demand and fasted routing. You may use up to 30 simultaneous connections or streams from your news reader application to our servers. Ports 119 and 8080 should be accessible. Also, all accounts come with free SSL encryption if your news reader app supports it. It is a good idea to use and actually may get you faster download speeds as many ISP's throttle the normal Usenet port 119. The SSL encrypted port 563 will let you bypass those speed throttles in many cases. Plus the security of encryption for your data just makes good sense. It's free, use it!