kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
 ·T-Mobile US
4 edits | reply to Roop
Re: Usenetserver giving "special offer" to us....
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/
 |
