I've been seeing the same as Phil the last couple days. At the moment I can't even bring up powerusenet.com. Just now I managed to download 240k and then it up and quit. Newbin is now reporting the stuff pasted below. May the all mighty router that died rest in peace.
06/05/2006 16:37:21 MODULE=InterSocket, MSG=Error: Connection Failed, Host: news.powerusenet.com Error Code: 17197756:17197757
06/05/2006 16:37:21 MODULE=InterSocket, MSG=Error: Connection Failed, Host: news.powerusenet.com Error Code: 17198092:17198093
06/05/2006 16:37:21 MODULE=InterSocket, MSG=Error: Connection Failed, Host: news.powerusenet.com Error Code: 17198284:17198285