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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 :D

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.

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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.

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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,

Quote from: Deaths HeadAnd 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.

But the point is that the combined upload speeds on a good private server will always be massively higher than public servers because of they force members to upload unlike public servers.

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Quote from: Deaths HeadAnd 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.

But the point is that the combined upload speeds on a good private server will always be massively higher than public servers because of they force members to upload unlike public servers.

they make you seed and to hit 1.1 you unstrangle your client, some sites bombard you with leeching email, until you hit 1.1.

edit.

be 24 pro,do 2.5 kb/s up, so 2 seeders giving back 2.5 MB is a lot faster than 200 seeders with strangled clients at 10 kbs

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from left ot right downloaded since install - Speed - download this session - download left - time left - free space - size of download location folder

stick that in your torrent & smoke it

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from left ot right downloaded since install - Speed - download this session - download left - time left - free space - size of download location folder

stick that in your torrent & smoke it

did that cost.

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from left ot right downloaded since install - Speed - download this session - download left - time left - free space - size of download location folder

stick that in your torrent & smoke it

did that cost.

I pay for a premium usenet provider. I can get the same with my ISP, but without the retention.

Some people will happily pay a premium price for reliability, good service &speedy delivery.

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from left ot right downloaded since install - Speed - download this session - download left - time left - free space - size of download location folder

stick that in your torrent & smoke it

did that cost.

I pay for a premium usenet provider. I can get the same with my ISP, but without the retention.

Some people will happily pay a premium price for reliability, good service &speedy delivery.

Well again thats arguable, I dont pay a penny and same as you I have loads of films, Im lucky my ISP has never restricted me, I often hit 1mb, as you know an average film is 700-800 MB big, down in 15 min, thats fast enough  for me, so Im Very happy. unless you live next door to your exchange your speeds can vary a lot, I hate ADSL2, over the years I tried them all, at least Virgin keep their speeds so my downloads are fast.

also the standard price for 20 MB with VirginMedia is £37.00, I pay no way near that, put it this way the new deal stopped me going to be24.

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Quote from: Eggtasticoalso the standard price for 20 MB with VirginMedia is £37.00, I pay no way near that, put it this way the new deal stopped me going to be24.

neither do I.. I have a 50% discount for 12months as I said I wanted to quit & go to sky  :yarr: £16.50

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Quote from: Privateer

Quote from: Eggtasticoalso the standard price for 20 MB with VirginMedia is £37.00, I pay no way near that, put it this way the new deal stopped me going to be24.

neither do I.. I have a 50% discount for 12months as I said I wanted to quit & go to sky  :yarr: £16.50

is that unrestricted, VM havent hit you with this then, Traffic management, LOL you escape the.

 There is some overlap in the 3% of uploaders and the 3% of downloaders. Our data has identified that the top 3% of uploaders and downloaders makes up fewer than 5% of all users.

astraweb - no speed limit, no bandwidth limit. Youll see your connection maxed out pretty much all the time

I download about 500GB a month.

Quote from: MarkI download about 500GB a month.

What ISP are you with Mark?

I download between 2-400 a month, never heard a peep out of Be.

I got kicked off pipex, then kicked off tiscali and then back on tiscali again

lol !

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from left ot right downloaded since install - Speed - download this session - download left - time left - free space - size of download location folder

stick that in your torrent & smoke it

egg, what newsreader program is that screen dump taken from?
im using newsbinpro, its alright but not that user friendly interface

my paid for usenet server (maximum usenet - think they are a resellar tbh) is up for renewall at the start of feb and i have cancelled my auto renewell as connection to their server is up and down like a yoyo sometimes.  considerably cheaper than giganews but i might have to start paying a bit more for better service.

anyone reccommend anyone else other than giganews / astraweb thats already been mentioned here?

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from left ot right downloaded since install - Speed - download this session - download left - time left - free space - size of download location folder

stick that in your torrent & smoke it

egg, what newsreader program is that screen dump taken from?
im using newsbinpro, its alright but not that user friendly interface

my paid for usenet server (maximum usenet - think they are a resellar tbh) is up for renewall at the start of feb and i have cancelled my auto renewell as connection to their server is up and down like a yoyo sometimes.  considerably cheaper than giganews but i might have to start paying a bit more for better service.

anyone reccommend anyone else other than giganews / astraweb thats already been mentioned here?

erm.. newsbin pro

oh aye yeah so it is!  :D
looked different for a sec

Have you guys tried Newsleecher?

Think its the dogs dangles personally..

im a grabit user, use newsbin so see whats out there and im getting about 6Mb with BE. happy enough with that, but wouldnt mind trialing a different client if there is a better one thangrabit.

Matt

Quote from: KunalHave you guys tried Newsleecher?

Think its the dogs dangles personally..

dont see the point. download NZB, double click NZB & off it downloads

I use Newzbin.com myself, have Newsleecher setup to auto load the NZB on download, it even repairs and extracts the files.

Can definitely recommend it.

just signed up for 3 months with 100%usenet or usenetaccess or something or other. Really good - far better than torrents I must say. So much easier to find rare stuff!!

Quote from: KunalI use Newzbin.com myself, have Newsleecher setup to auto load the NZB on download, it even repairs and extracts the files.

Can definitely recommend it.

newsbin does that. I preffer not to use it as my download & extraction are on different drives

HITNEWS.EU are offering a 3 day free trial without putting in any payment details if any of you fancy giving newsgroups a try.

go here (http://member.hitnews.eu/signup.php?lang=en)

Fill in all the details, they dont matter as long as your email address is real.

Astraweb.

For indexer I use BINSEARCH thus negating the need to pay more for newzbin :)

Client: Free GrabIT. Works great.

hmm... torrents... hell no.

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blimey 1.33 mb unstrangled, the new Azereus Vuze, with a Hd player built in and over a 1000 legal downloads,  some are HD, fantastic, have a look, Ill be very surprised, if users say its crap.

the video of the Ghost Rider on the Susuki Hayabusa turbo (499HP) doing nearly 300k on streets is fantastic.
only Azureus Vuze has it.



Edit .The Ghost rider does a wheelie at about 270k, thats crazy.

actually ill post the motorbike in Cars and Motorbikes

I found Vuze very bloated (even more so than the older Azureus). Its ok to open now and again to watch things but to use as your client all the time its just too memory and processor hogging.
 
Cant beat uTorrent imo.

Quote from: sexytwI found Vuze very bloated (even more so than the older Azureus). Its ok to open now and again to watch things but to use as your client all the time its just too memory and processor hogging.
 
Cant beat uTorrent imo.

my system memory takes care off bloatware, utorrent crashes my pc.

Think youll find its 2.3MB/s

Quote from: M3ta7h3adThink youll find its 2.3MB/s

split hairs I missed the /s, I said,
blimey 1.33 mb

Quote from: KunalI use Newzbin.com myself, have Newsleecher setup to auto load the NZB on download, it even repairs and extracts the files.

Can definitely recommend it.

binsearch.info = a free nzb generator... tick box of what you want, hit "create nzb" voila.

grabit is set up on my system to do exactly the same.

Load up binsearch, find item... create nzb, download, verify, extract, repair... 1 click.

a favour please.
Ghost rider 5 is out on several torrent sites.
can  news uses find it for me.
thanks.

alt.binaries.dvd
a.b.x
a.b.boneless
a.b.nl

Quote from: Eggtasticoalt.binaries.dvd
a.b.x
a.b.boneless

I cant get this right, very strange I expect its simple for some.

Just enter the info needed.

Server Address = the IP address the usenet provider gives you
port = port for the server
server nickname = anything
connections = allowed connections. Giganews for example allow 9 connections
Login - Username & password given to you by the usenet provider.

Ive recently started using newsgroups - ace speeds when you find what you want!!

I do have trouble with missing files though and downloading 700mb files for it not to work because one part isnt there. Any tips / tricks for avoiding this?

Quote from: RivkidIve recently started using newsgroups - ace speeds when you find what you want!!

I do have trouble with missing files though and downloading 700mb files for it not to work because one part isnt there. Any tips / tricks for avoiding this?

download the par files as well
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=6

If you get a lot of incompletes, then its your newsgroup provider. I use giganews. 99%+ completion rate

Quote from: RivkidIve recently started using newsgroups - ace speeds when you find what you want!!

I do have trouble with missing files though and downloading 700mb files for it not to work because one part isnt there. Any tips / tricks for avoiding this?

par2 files, and use an indexer so you dont need to hunt for parts :)

http://www.binsearch.info/index.php?q=Rambo&m=&max=25&adv_g=&adv_age=7&adv_sort=date&adv_col=on&adv_nfo=on&minsize=&maxsize=&font=&postdate=

I do get par files but they never seem to work  :disappointed:

I do get incomplete stuff all the time. Maybe crap provider.

Will try that index system though cheers!!