Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Purgert Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: "Tether"?? What is it and how might I achieve it?? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:25:54 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:25:54 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="02f6688f44aa0c846614ce2b97a22e73"; logging-data="1852189"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rpDmN0ctLsR/Ke7lQ2Xz5Ch24YFcHbzQ=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FQgAHoJO61hHghdSAy6XUgSYnp0= Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:16981 alt.os.linux:80948 On 2025-02-11, Daniel70 wrote: > On 11/02/2025 9:31 pm, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On 2025-02-11, Daniel70 wrote: >>> But ..... >>> "Sending of the message failed. >>> The message could not be posted because connecting to the news server >>> failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing connections. Please >>> verify that your news server settings are correct and try again." >> >> That might be your mobile phone carrier only allowing certain (common) >> ports through the hotspot, such as 80/443 for web browsing and >> 495/587/25 for email. Maybe a few other things too. >> > Making note of these Port numbers .... you know ... Just in case. > > But, seems as I was able to browse and post to UseNet, I'm hoping it > will not be necessary. Ignore the comment - it's an issue of responding to a post without having seen the followup of "I forgot to turn on mobile data". -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860