Best Usenet News Reader Program?

[GTaudiophile]

What is available besides Outlook Express and Forte Agent?

 

[xospec1alk]

xnews, and grabit

 

[EvilYoda]

Do a search, there was a thread about this a little while back...Newsbin Pro and GrabIt are suggested

 

[royaldank]

I love News Pro

http://www.usenetopia.com/

Amazing program. And under a meg in size.

 

[jfall]

Do you pay for usenet, or is there some way to access it for free. I have never seen it before

 

[freegeeks]

i pay for it (short retention from the free news service from my ISP) and I use newsbin Pro

 

[waylman]

most ISP's offer free access jfall

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: jfall
Do you pay for usenet, or is there some way to access it for free. I have never seen it before

I pay. Many ISP's give out access with accounts. However, with Comcast, you only get to download 1gig a month.

 

[bubbadu]

I use xnews and it works great

 

[NeoV]

if you want to download files, newsbin pro is the best.....for reading newsgroup posts - I have no idea -


Your ISP may offer newsgroup access, check with them...if not, something like Usenet is good, but you have to pay for it

 

[waylman]

I forgot to answer the original question. I've tried Xnews and Newsbin Pro. Newsbin Pro is far superior.

 

[jfall]

So how does usenet different from a regular news server that comes with most ISP, or is there any difference

 

[GTaudiophile]

I've used newsfeeds in the past, but a friend of mine wants to know about readers.

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: jfall
So how does usenet different from a regular news server that comes with most ISP, or is there any difference

most ISP don't hold the binaries very long
some ISP limit your mileage (bandwith)
some ISP don't have all the groups
...

 

[777php]

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: jfall
Do you pay for usenet, or is there some way to access it for free. I have never seen it before

I pay. Many ISP's give out access with accounts. However, with Comcast, you only get to download 1gig a month.

Are you sure that Comcast does this with everybody?

I am positive that I've downloaded over a gig in a week before.

 

[MustISO]

Comcast gives 1GB per month and they count the headers IIRC.

I think Giganews Binary Newsreader is great. Not very well known but so easy to use.

 

[pulse8]

For anyone considering service, DO NOT go with 100proofnews.com.

They have a good deal and their service is kind of alright, but they will sell your e-mail address without hesitation.

 

[MustISO]

I got terrible speeds from 100proof. Now I use Giganews (the service and the app). They're fast, great retention and decent prices.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
What is available besides Outlook Express and Forte Agent?

The Best by far is newsreactor. I pay for my usnet and with this program I can set my D/load cap @ 200 Kb/sec so I also D/load from Mirc and other programs

Ausm

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: MustISO
I got terrible speeds from 100proof. Now I use Giganews (the service and the app). They're fast, great retention and decent prices.

I switched to Astraweb. Great price, awesome service.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: jfall
So how does usenet different from a regular news server that comes with most ISP, or is there any difference

I subscribe to a nonfiltered News server. News servers from ISP's suck ars


Ausm

 

[waylman]

i use easynews....10/month for 6GB.....really fast....maxes my 1.5mbps connection when d/l'ing. They also have a great search feature on their site that allows you to d/l directly from them.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: MustISO
I got terrible speeds from 100proof. Now I use Giganews (the service and the app). They're fast, great retention and decent prices.

I switched to Astraweb. Great price, awesome service.

Nice price...I use usenetserver.com . This place rocks I d/load 24/7 200 kb/sec


Ausm

 

[MustISO]

Usenetserver CAN be great but they have a lot of downtime and I started having speed issues with them. Finally cancelled.

 

[Nocturnal]

Newspro is a really good program to use. Too bad finding files on newsgroups suck or either that it's the same files over and over again.