Roop
join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON
 ·Cybersurf Corporat..
| reply to alexpb1
Re: Usenetserver giving "special offer" to us....
if you're concerned with your bandwidth especially when using providers with stupid amounts of retention, use nzbs. google "pizza" and nzb, and check their forums. also, check »beta.binaries.nl.
for those that don't know, nzb files enable nntp software with nzb support to download binaries without getting the headers first. this time consuming process can be as lenghtly as the downloads themselves since companies such as newshosting.com are unable to consistently send headers as fast as binaries. |
kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
 ·T-Mobile US
4 edits | Some help for starters... 
Free search and NZBs:
»www.binsearch.info ot www.binsearch.net as well as the following sites:
»usenetsearch.nl or »usenetsearch.net
»alt.binaries.nl
You can put together your own nzbs - online and free.:)
If you're too lazy to do it, you may want to check out these sites:
»www.dvdrs.net
»nzb.antido.com
»nzb-files.nl.nu
»nzbzone.com
NZB Leecher:
»pizza.sohosted.com/nzb_leecher/m···cation=2
Providers
In the cheap range there's www.100proofnews.com prices: 100GB/mo for $9/mo or unlimited traffic for $13/mo - both subscription comes with at least 9-10 simultaneous connections - sometimes higher, sometimes lower, no hard limit (probably depends on that particluar server load - they have east, west and europe servers) but speed is pretty good, at least ~5Mbit usually but rather higher. Retention isn't the best though, between 25-30 days in most binary groups. Generally speaking this is the very minimum nowadays for retention - don't even bother yourself checking out any provider with lower than 25-30 days.
Free trial is available upon request.
Best of the best is Giganews, of course: $24/mo and unlimited on 10 connections and will max out your line speed, I guarantee you, no matter it's a 15Mb/s or higher pipe you're sitting on. They have two cheaper price but both are traffic-limited ones.  However their retention is crazy: 70 days!!!  :o:D This is the best NSP money can buy. All acounts come with a 3 days trial period.
Between two there's newshosting.com, unlimited for $15/mo w/ 40 days retention but 8 connections only (they also have plenty of traffic based package). Ask for free trial and you'll get it - some 24-48 hrs w/ 1GB traffic limit should be enough to test their speed and see their retention ingroups you'll be interested.)
This is probably the best of both worlds.
News clients (Windows only):
I think the two best client are Newsleecher and Usenet Explorer.
First is a professional leecher with built-in supersearch function - this sw not free but cheap, license allows you to run it both on your work and home machines and it's features really worth the price (some $20-30, depending supersearch is included or not) and backed by an active forum community including the developer: »www.newsleecher.com
A 30-days trial is available for download.
Second is an advanced client, with anonymous posting included, perhaps a little bit less beginner-friendly and less nicely designed but less resource hungry (NL is a memory hog, so older machines will suffer when one activates a dozen of large groups at once)too, with more features, so a great sw as well and also ccomes for cheap: »www.netwu.com/ue/
15-days trial is available for download.
The best free client is probably Ozum, though it was buggy when I last time tested: »www.ozinsight.com
Ah and a forever link for Usenet binaries: »www.binaries4all.com/
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