7 days free usenet access

[jimmy j]

Giganews is perhaps the most expensive news provider, it is also able to charge that because it can back it up (there are several other fantastic providers with bit less storage time and whatnot which can approach that sort of cost (especially with the dollar being so weak).

I just checked out usenet server like djgarf suggested and it looks ok. £7.40 per month, unlimited d/l. Pretty good deal. Would that be ok for UK users or would we be better off with a europe-based server?

I might just be extremely biased against rapidshare though (in my opinion there are far better examples of storage sites and to compare it to usenet is borderline obscene).

I didn't really look it from a storage point of view coz I hardly ever upload. As a pure downloader I just look at a few factors - How fast will it download, will the files be corrupt/fake, can I find what I want. RS has been good to me ever since I found a lot of good forums and search engines.

QUOTE(FAST6191 @ Sep 3 2007, 09:46 PM)

Still reasons for corrupt downloads:
As usenet only does ASCII characters and a few other select characters (the protocols are damn ancient: pre internet really)Â to post data it has to be encoded, most binary posts are encoding using the yEnc method (earlier methods include replacing the hex values with their ASCII equivalent, see Uuencode and Base64). This leaves several stages at which corruption can occur (the initial encoding, the initial transfer and propagation, the transfer from the news server to your machine (this is especially noticeable if you are after older posts) and the decoding on your machine)

Well explained. I even understood most of it!

 

[djgarf]

Giganews is perhaps the most expensive news provider, it is also able to charge that because it can back it up (there are several other fantastic providers with bit less storage time and whatnot which can approach that sort of cost (especially with the dollar being so weak).

I just checked out usenet server like djgarf suggested and it looks ok. £7.40 per month, unlimited d/l. Pretty good deal. Would that be ok for UK users or would we be better off with a europe-based server?

i'm from the uk and usenetserver is sweet for me

 

[go185]

My isp offers usenet access with no caps for free. CHA CHING!

 

[Dack]

The problem is some ISPs don't carry all the groups - I remember the day NTL decided to drop the entire alt.bin hierarchy.

I use the "pay as you go" option on astraweb - it's 25 dollars for a 90 Gig download allowance that doesn't time expire. They also have a european mirror.

 

[Katalyst]

A couple years ago I was using newshosting.com's unlimited plan for $14.95/month. Had no problems with it and I thought it was a fair price for unlimited downloads, seeing as I was pulling in ~10-20GB a week. I had to cancel that plan and suffer with my ISP's crappy service for a while. Good thing now though is that I moved and my current ISP gives unlimited access and they use usenetserver. Saves me a good $15 a month or having to deal with shitty usenet service.

 

[RayorDragonFall]

Telefonica upgraded me to 3mb XD

 

[Bitbyte]

will be interesting to see if after 7 days u can sign up again with a different email address and still use it or if they monitor ip addresses too

Yes you can

. Guy I know has been doing it for over a month now.

 

[TrolleyDave]

Just wanted to say thanks to the OP!

 

[djgarf]

Just wanted to say thanks to the OP!

your welcome :@)

 

[WeaponXxX]

Agreed, Thanks man!!!

 

[amptor]

wait a minute, u guys aren't going to use this access to download anything illegal are you?

 

[EarthBound]

wait a minute, u guys aren't going to use this access to download anything illegal are you?Â

I was already using free servers thanks to a friend.
But this+my free servers=max speed.

Only bad thing is they queue up after about 85-90% of downloading.


I guess Demonoid is my friend for 360 games

 

[berlinka]

Thanks djgarf! I have never used newsgroups before. I'm trying this one now. It's incredible what is available. I'm downloading like there's no tomorrow!
It would be great if in the future there would be more of these fabulous trials.

 

[SkH]

Oh wow... thanks!!!!!

AWESOME!!!!

 

[FAST6191]

It would be great if in the future there would be more of these fabulous trials.

They roll around every few months, it might be worth skipping lunch one day and instead grabbing some of the offers already posted though.

 

[Tuddles]

Well I usally use astraweb and top out at about 700 kb/sec which is great for me, well I am topping out on this at 250 kb/sec. I am very happy with this even as it is for free and I just wanted to say thanks kindly for the info

Also I use NZB-O-Matic to grab the files and it's sooo simple to use anyone could, so if you need something simple for starters google NZB-O-Matic

thanx again

 

[jalaneme]

i just tried to sign up again as my free trial has expired and i used a different email address, it seems they know if you attempt to use the free trial more than once

 

[Azimuth]

i just tried to sign up again as my free trial has expired and i used a different email address, it seems they know if you attempt to use the free trial more than once

I did the same but it worked

 

[jalaneme]

i just tried to sign up again as my free trial has expired and i used a different email address, it seems they know if you attempt to use the free trial more than once

I did the same but it worked

huh? how? i made sure everything was different even the password but it still gave me a email saying according to our records you have already signed up before blah blah blah.

i signed up for a new free email account aswell using a new email each time but it just kept giving that same message each time, they log ip address so you can't do it more than once.

 

[jimmy j]

Didn't work for me either. Too bad I don't have dynamic IP