Newsgroups anyone?

Skyuser

wow way to confusin. i got as far as grabit but from there on im lost.

RE*AC*TOR

I use easynews, because I like downloading via http. It suits me, and my environment.

If i had a connection that was unlimited, and ultra fast, and didn't have any blocked ports, I'd use giganews unlimited - great retention.

Then again after a while, there's only so much you can download.

At the moment, I have about 60gb credit with easynews.

CL7

bush wrote:

I use newshosting, 15 dollars a month uncapped.

Same here, great retention and completion. Paying more for a different provider doesn't make much sense to me.

eoghanflynn

i got a free trail with usenext an tought it was real good but might go for giginews wich on is the best?and wich ones do you get software with

Stokolan

i used to use Usenet but found that some files i was getting were un repairable even with the pars so i tried the same download from giganews and didnt need the pars ever since then i kept with them.

I use newzbin to get the nzb's and download using newsbin pro.

shanefeb

Do the like of Giganews etc. allow highspeed downloading via one-way satellite?

DemonOfTheFall

They work over any internet connection. Whatever the best speed you can get downloading from a site like ftp://ftp.heanet.ie or any other fast website is likely to be what you get from them.

I know easynews let you select multiple internet routings so that the data travels through the quickest path to your ISP. Eg if I choose some of their options my speeds are ~80k, some of the other ones will give me 365k.

It's safe to say a decent newsgroup provider will max your connection out. No uploading (other than acknowledgements), unlike P2P etc.

Ponster

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

It's safe to say a decent newsgroup provider will max your connection out. No uploading (other than acknowledgements), unlike P2P etc.

Some private torrent sites will easily max out your connection

cramp

Iam using ASTRANEWS @ $15 a month (no banned groups) i have used Giganews, but have found that even with their retention of 62 days, enough files have disappeared after 35 days to make the file dead , also using Newsreaders Newsbinpro/Grabbit and searchers Newsleech/newsbin
@demonofthefall
Are u sure its NTL blocking these groups and not your News server???

cramp

zuma

http://www.news.astraweb.com/plans.html


It looks interesting....what ports do newsgroup require?

cramp

Iam not a PORT expert, but iam sure that i have seen 119 pop up a few times during my Newgroup use!!

cramp