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Anyone got those usenetserver IPs?

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stultus

Golden Member
I formatted and lost the individual server IPs. And without them, using news.usenetserver.com is unbearably slow.
 
If you don't have the magic IP list, yes. But I can pull 18 Mbps off of UNS with no problem with the IPs.
 
I signed up to Usenetserver to see if they were worth the money over Easynews.

Thank goodness they had a full refund guarantee.

Logged on, duped my copy of Agent, and retrieved headers from a few binary groups with both servers.

Usenetserver had about 25-40% as many available headers as Easynews. Completion was HORRIBLE and retention was equally bad.

Seriously, switch to Easynews. You won't go back.
 
Originally posted by: Creig
Somebody MUST have those six IP addresses for the UseNetServer servers!
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Maybe usenetserver.com or whatever has them. Give me the host names, I'll nslookup them for you. Jeez man, get a grip. pr0n ain't that important.
 
I know the names of three of the feeds:

news.usenetserver.com
east.usenetserver.com
west.usenetserver.com

but I can't remember what the other three were.
 
The ones I use:

64.154.60.182
64.154.60.184
64.154.60.187
64.154.60.181
64.154.60.185
64.154.60.180
64.154.60.179
 
Tried usenetnews and their completion wasn't that great.

Went to giganews and haven't gone back to anything else. Fast and a heavy retention rate, its quite worth the money.

vash
 
My suggestion to switch to easynews still stands.

Do me a favor -- anyone with usenetserver.

Download headers from alt.binaries.dvdr and tell me 1) number of headers, 2) oldest post, 3) approx. completion.

For comparison: Easynews has 550,000 headers dating all the way back to 4/01/03 with at least 95% completion. Beat that. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Kilrsat
The ones I use:

64.154.60.182
64.154.60.184
64.154.60.187
64.154.60.181
64.154.60.185
64.154.60.180
64.154.60.179
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Are these still working? I know usenetserver has been having problems for the last week or so, and lately, I haven't been able to connect to these servers. Anyone else having these problems?
 
For comparison: Easynews has 550,000 headers dating all the way back to 4/01/03 with at least 95% completion. Beat that. 🙂
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Giganews's group stat engine says they've got 1,092,616 articles and "10+ days" retention. I can't personally retrieve all of the headers since Agent has a million header retrieval limit. 😛
 
Am I the only one experiencing terrible service from UseNetServer. It's been going on for about a week now. They claim they're fixing the problem but I'm still getting very slow speeds.
 
Easynews - 6 GB/month :frown:
UseNetServer - unlimited. 😉

I can download 12GB in a day, if I wanted too. I use NewsBin Pro 4.1. I agree that retention can be bad, but a 6GB/month limit is no good for me.
 
Originally posted by: amnesiac
My suggestion to switch to easynews still stands.

Do me a favor -- anyone with usenetserver.

Download headers from alt.binaries.dvdr and tell me 1) number of headers, 2) oldest post, 3) approx. completion.

For comparison: Easynews has 550,000 headers dating all the way back to 4/01/03 with at least 95% completion. Beat that. 🙂
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Too Expensive. Who cares about 4/1/03. I downloaded everything from April that I wanted IN April.

That said I do still have an Easynews account in addition to another service but not for long.


I did use Usenetserver for about 2 hours. After that I got a refund.
 
Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: amnesiac
My suggestion to switch to easynews still stands.

Do me a favor -- anyone with usenetserver.

Download headers from alt.binaries.dvdr and tell me 1) number of headers, 2) oldest post, 3) approx. completion.

For comparison: Easynews has 550,000 headers dating all the way back to 4/01/03 with at least 95% completion. Beat that. 🙂
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Too Expensive. Who cares about 4/1/03. I downloaded everything from April that I wanted IN April.

That said I do still have an Easynews account in addition to another service but not for long.


I did use Usenetserver for about 2 hours. After that I got a refund.
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Last I checked, you can't download a series of RARs and use them effectively when you're missing a good 15% of the parts. Usenetserver's completion rate in the high traffic groups was abysmal.
 
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Last I checked, you can't download a series of RARs and use them effectively when you're missing a good 15% of the parts. Usenetserver's completion rate in the high traffic groups was abysmal.
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I know, that's why I got a refund after 2 hours! I use someone else now.
 
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