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Posted by nykid on 07-11-2005 06:11 PM:

usenet problems...

Hi all, Im new t othis site. I would appreciateall the help i can get. I read the post about how to download movies. I chose thee usenet method.

I have optonline and the usenet stinks not such a variety of stuff on there, very vague categories. what use net is the best to use?

thanks

Leo

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Posted by mrlipring on 07-11-2005 10:28 PM:

MOST decent providers will carry all the groups you want. Your best bet is to check out a nzb site or two, and sign up for a 3 day trial that most providers give.

newshosting seemed pretty good.

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Posted by nykid on 07-11-2005 10:43 PM:

thanks I appreciate the info. whats a nzb site.

its a bit fistrating finding what im looking for..most of the stuff is cam garbage.

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Posted by TwinZ on 07-11-2005 11:10 PM:

newshosting or giganews in my opinion both have good retention and great completion. newshosting is cheaper tho.

Posted by antihero on 07-12-2005 12:15 AM:

newshosting is good, never had any problems....good retention, and as mentioned, its cheap! good for me, cos im a stingy bastard.

Posted by scottymac on 07-12-2005 02:02 AM:

Before you start paying for news service, check with your ISP.

Mine does provide access to newsgroups, with unlimited monthly downloads and 1.8MBPS. However it's only 3 days retention.

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Posted by MrEMann on 07-12-2005 02:28 AM:

Newshosting and (correct me if I am wrong) giganews both have good retention, newshosting is 30 days in most cases, and offer UNLIMITED download bandwidth. I personally am using newshosting currently and they keep up quite well with my 3meg internet connection.

Good luck and shop around to find what suits you!

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Posted by fatfecker on 07-12-2005 09:00 PM:

NZB files are "indexes" of usenet, say you want to grab a film but you don't know if it has been posted, normally you would have to pick a newsgroup (can't name any here but use your imagination), point your news reader software at it, download all of the headers (and just the headers can be hundreds of megabytes), find the post (amongst the other thousand), select all the files and then proceed to download them.

Join up to an NZB site and they list all film/apps/console/games that have been posted to usenet, from here you can download the NZB file (usually less than a megabyte), plop it into your news reading software and sit and watch as it downloads as fast as your connection allows.

If you really want to learn about usenet slycks guide will fill you in about PAR and PAR2 files and sign up to www.newzbin.com for reports on posts (there are alternatives to newzbin but they don't seem anywhere near as complete and fast) newzbin have their own IRC server aswell with a dedicated support channel for newbies and Q&A about premium (pay for) news providers aswell as ISP providers etc. etc. (I know cos I live there )

Posted by nykid on 07-12-2005 11:59 PM:

just to let everyone know I signed up with newsbin and usehostings. It is excellent fast uninteruppted downloads for really cheap. cant go wrong.

Posted by sunup on 07-15-2005 04:50 AM:

giganews

i started with my isp-provided giganews account through comcast, which only had a 2 gig limit for the month, but who could complain it's free. after a few hours i d/led almost my whole months worth, then i decided to get upgraded.
only good things to say about giganews from me, but i havent tried any others, no reason for me yet any how. i havent even compared prices, i do giganews-unlimmy for 25$/month, but i hear newshosting is cheaper, might be worth a LQQK!

if Newsbin.giganews = true then Digital.Gangsta.Visible = True
end if

Posted by fatfecker on 07-15-2005 12:48 PM:

If you can afford it stick with giganews, they are the best!
newshosting can be a bit slow sometimes (was down to 150k/s yesterday for me) and occasionaly hiccups for an hour or so a month. It depends on YOUR connection speed really, if you have a 3MB or greater connection I would stay with giganews.

Posted by tweak41 on 07-18-2005 07:23 AM:

I've found usenetserver to be an excellent and very cheap company for my Usenet needs. At $14.95 a month, I've yet to find a cheaper provider (And if you pay quarterly, it's even cheaper...). Anyway, that along with GrabIt (my client of choice), you really can't go wrong IMO. Hope that helps...

P.S. I know Verizon DSL provides usenet access (at least for business customers...not sure about any limitations or anything since I stick with usenetserver--it has significantly more groups and such)

Posted by snitzle_iii on 07-20-2005 10:34 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by tweak41
I've found usenetserver to be an excellent and very cheap company for my Usenet needs. At $14.95 a month, I've yet to find a cheaper provider (And if you pay quarterly, it's even cheaper...). Anyway, that along with GrabIt (my client of choice), you really can't go wrong IMO. Hope that helps...

P.S. I know Verizon DSL provides usenet access (at least for business customers...not sure about any limitations or anything since I stick with usenetserver--it has significantly more groups and such)

found a special 2 monthis for 15
https://signup.usenetserver.com/signupoffer.asp

btw waht does ns stand for?

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Posted by antihero on 07-20-2005 08:07 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by tweak41
I've found usenetserver to be an excellent and very cheap company for my Usenet needs. At $14.95 a month, I've yet to find a cheaper provider (And if you pay quarterly, it's even cheaper...). Anyway, that along with GrabIt (my client of choice), you really can't go wrong IMO. Hope that helps...

P.S. I know Verizon DSL provides usenet access (at least for business customers...not sure about any limitations or anything since I stick with usenetserver--it has significantly more groups and such)

started using newsbin pro, but found it a memory hog, so decided to try grabit. Found it to be a great piece of software, apart from one, really fucking annoying thing (dont know if it happens with other readers). If one of the downlad threads fails for some reason (error on header or whatever), it will leave it and skip onto the next thread which will automatically be an error, and this continues for the rest of the queue.

Highly annoying if you have about 300 threads in the cue and it errors on the 10th. You can go back and retry all the files after the one it initally failed on without any errors.

Wonder if anyone else has had this problem?

Posted by TwinZ on 07-20-2005 09:26 PM:

not heard of that problem with grabit and i only use it when newsleecher craps out. Then the only problem i have had with grabit was the crash when you download too many headers.

as for usenetserver they are also extending the retention to 40 + days but the last time i was with them earlier this year they were awful with bad completion and bad retention. hope things have changed for the better like they say

Posted by nykid on 07-20-2005 11:21 PM:

question for all you newsbin pro users: is there anyway to search the entire usenet for specific titles instead of clicking on each one and downloading the entire section?

Posted by fatfecker on 07-21-2005 01:59 PM:

erm, try newzbin, that's what they do, pay up as a member and you can "file search" the whole of usenet, why would you want to waste time pulling headers?

Posted by danimal39 on 07-21-2005 02:21 PM:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/#NNTPes heres a listing from anchordudes or carriers and thier strengths

Posted by TwinZ on 07-21-2005 04:05 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by nykid
question for all you newsbin pro users: is there anyway to search the entire usenet for specific titles instead of clicking on each one and downloading the entire section?

if you want that and your willing to pay i would go for something like newsleecher as it has a rather nifty supersearch engine that will do what you want. that is the best until you get to dutch groups if you know what i mean.

Posted by nykid on 07-26-2005 03:16 AM:

I paid for newbin..how do i exactly search the entire usenet without selecting each group?

Posted by antihero on 07-26-2005 03:24 AM:

newsbin as in the software? or newzbin as in the website?

if its the software, there should be a search function....

Posted by punzada on 07-26-2005 04:23 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by nykid
I paid for newbin..how do i exactly search the entire usenet without selecting each group?

....if you're paying for usenet and you have ool as your provider you're throwing away your money. ool outsources its usenet services to giganews, one of, if not the largest newsgroup provider out there, through ool they offer somewhere around a two week long retention and download speeds of around 200KB/s (800 or so on downloading the headders). You should of seen how their newsgroups were before they outsourced them, 24 hour retention *cry*, you're privledged that they give ya that access as part of your monthly fee.

Posted by dstrac99d on 07-26-2005 08:16 PM:

my isp offers newservers at no extra cost(lots of isp's do)..i get around 10mbits/down and sometimes up to 15mbits/down..the retention pretty much sucks though..but,it is free,so i can't complain..so anyone who likes using newsgroups,should first check with thier provider..even if you buy service with giganews(or whatever),you can still add on your isp's newsserver..

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Posted by snitzle_iii on 08-05-2005 10:32 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by scottymac
Before you start paying for news service, check with your ISP.

Mine does provide access to newsgroups, with unlimited monthly downloads and 1.8MBPS. However it's only 3 days retention.

just found out sbc has one like 5 months ago. free=always good

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Posted by james211 on 08-21-2005 01:01 PM:

newsgroups is awesome

Posted by booner on 09-05-2005 03:19 AM:

easynews

I'm quite fond of easynews.com.

At least 30 day retention (I believe it's 40). $9.99 for 20GB a month. You can get another 512MB a week for free by taking the customer service survey and additional opportunities to earn gigs by giving away CPU usage. A GREAT web based global search and all of your Gigs roll over every month.

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Posted by nykid on 09-12-2005 12:48 PM:

I am thinking about using easynews instead of newshostings

Im sick and tired of waiting a few days after the release is posted to vcd quality to get the releases its too damn slow.

Can I still use newsbin pro with easynews?

Posted by sp0ng3b0b on 09-12-2005 12:55 PM:

not getting your bootlegs fast enough, huh? the specific server you use isnt the problem, junior.

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Posted by derekk on 09-12-2005 01:22 PM:

ftp bit more expensive tho

Posted by Neversoft on 09-12-2005 02:30 PM:

Only the true 1337 pay for FTP access... I prostrate myself at your feet derekk

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Posted by derekk on 09-12-2005 10:21 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Neversoft
Only the true 1337 pay for FTP access... I prostrate myself at your feet derekk

l33t m8 i hate that phrase you know,and no you dont have to prostate yourself neversoft..just bow

Posted by nykid on 09-16-2005 03:22 AM:

has anyone else had problems with the usenets lately..its more than a week and no new releases its just weird to me.

Posted by TwinZ on 09-16-2005 09:35 AM:

how the hell is no new releases on usenet a problem? there has been lots of new stuff on that i can see. !

Posted by nykid on 09-17-2005 04:40 AM:

the binary I usually get the releases is not updated lately..I was just wondering. I use newshostings

Posted by sportsfan99 on 09-17-2005 05:19 AM:

Newshosting is one of the top paid providers so I know they carry all the relevant groups. You're probably just not looking in the right places cuz I see the new releases all the time.

Posted by TwinZ on 09-17-2005 06:57 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by nykid
the binary I usually get the releases is not updated lately..I was just wondering. I use newshostings

if i was you i would just go for the full lobotomy now and forget all about the binaries

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