Ive been on Newshostings unlimited package for a few years now but Im starting to get fed up with it lately. Connection is more unstable and tops out far below my line speed.

Does anyone use Giganews? Quite like the sounds of their higher retention and encryption on downloads.

Pipex use giganews for their access, it was much better than the claranet I paid for but the speed was limited to 30K/s.  A friend highly recommends Giganews, you can sign up via someones referal link so the referring person gets a free month or something.

Giganews.
Expensive = Yes
Retention is 6 months+ (I downloaded stuff just before Xmas that was posted in May!)
Completion = 99.9%

been with them now for at least 3 years. Best Ive ever used & Ive been doing this gig for 10+ years

Noob offtopic question, what benefits does this kind of thing have over torrents?

Quote from: White GiantNoob offtopic question, what benefits does this kind of thing have over torrents?

speed. It will max out your connection. Reliability. Early releases. After FTP, Newsgroup is usually the 1st stop before torrents.
Infact, its prob where most torrents get their stuff from.

Use an Indexer like newzbin, binnews, nzbsrus, etc.
search google for NZB

Quote from: White GiantNoob offtopic question, what benefits does this kind of thing have over torrents?

Also you dont have to maintain any kind of ratio or upload anything at all! Its currently under less scrutiny than bittorrents from the law and media making it a bit safer (although newsgroups have recently been receiving more press than before).

If I had a line faster than about 8mb id probably still pay, but as it is im happy with torrent sites.

Hmm, I dont often get more than 200kb/s with a single torrent. Might have to look into it.

Expect a thread

Quote from: White GiantHmm, I dont often get more than 200kb/s with a single torrent. Might have to look into it.

Expect a thread

http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/articles/usenet_binaries_tutorial.asp

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

Aye I quite often get 2Mb/sec with NewsHosting.

Been playing with Giganews using a mates account and Im hitting 2.5Mb/sec

Quote from: White GiantHmm, I dont often get more than 200kb/s with a single torrent. Might have to look into it.

Expect a thread

you use the wrong servers, private torrents often hit 800 kb/s to 1mb.

Quote from: EggtasticoGiganews.
Expensive = Yes
Retention is 6 months+ (I downloaded stuff just before Xmas that was posted in May!)
Completion = 99.9%

been with them now for at least 3 years. Best Ive ever used & Ive been doing this gig for 10+ years

tbh, I think Giganews is 200 days retention which is silly.
And regardless of what server/torrent you are on.  Your download speed will be dictated by the upload speed of who you are connected to not public/private server.

Quote from: Deaths Head

Quote from: EggtasticoGiganews.
Expensive = Yes
Retention is 6 months+ (I downloaded stuff just before Xmas that was posted in May!)
Completion = 99.9%

been with them now for at least 3 years. Best Ive ever used & Ive been doing this gig for 10+ years

tbh, I think Giganews is 200 days retention which is silly.
And regardless of what server/torrent you are on.  Your download speed will be dictated by the upload speed of who you are connected to not public/private server.

ill argue about private tracker, these 3 are from 3 diffferent private trackers.




give the mods babies.

edit, the important bit.

That doesnt prove anything other than people on the private trackers dont limit their upload to 0.1K/s

Quote from: Deaths Headtbh, I think Giganews is 200 days retention which is silly.
And regardless of what server/torrent you are on.  Your download speed will be dictated by the upload speed of who you are connected to not public/private server.

Why is it silly?

Im on Giganews and love it. I get a constant 1.5-1.6MB/s from my 15Mbps connection.

Quote from: Rob

Quote from: Deaths Headtbh, I think Giganews is 200 days retention which is silly.
And regardless of what server/torrent you are on.  Your download speed will be dictated by the upload speed of who you are connected to not public/private server.

Why is it silly?

Im on Giganews and love it. I get a constant 1.5-1.6MB/s from my 15Mbps connection.

do you pay for it,