Best Usenet News Reader Program?

[Ausm]

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

Who did you go with after you dropped them?

Ausm

 

[BillGates]

GrabIt

 

[Ausm]

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.

10gb @12 bucks/month?!?!

Hell I d/load 1 gig a day I don't think that place would work for me

Ausm

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: ausm

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.

10gb @12 bucks/month?!?!

Hell I d/load 1 gig a day I don't think that place would work for me

Ausm

1GB/day???? What the hell are you downloading?

 

[Maverick]

I love my ISP DSLExtreme...they give us an unlimited download Supernews account with a 2x 256kbps connection limit

Not the fastest...but with two weeks of retention for binaries and a list of almost every single groups out there with 99% completion who's complaining

Anyone know a good newsreader that can do multiple connections for downloading binaries?

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: ausm

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.

10gb @12 bucks/month?!?!

Hell I d/load 1 gig a day I don't think that place would work for me

Ausm

1GB/day???? What the hell are you downloading?

Pron and music videos

Ausm

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Shiva112
I love my ISP DSLExtreme...they give us an unlimited download Supernews account with a 2x 256kbps connection limit

Not the fastest...but with two weeks of retention for binaries and a list of almost every single groups out there with 99% completion who's complaining

Anyone know a good newsreader that can do multiple connections for downloading binaries?

Newsreactor does 4 simutaneous connections and can decode aaaaaanything

Ausm

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: ausm

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: ausm

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.

10gb @12 bucks/month?!?!

Hell I d/load 1 gig a day I don't think that place would work for me

Ausm

1GB/day???? What the hell are you downloading?

Pron and music videos


Ausm

lol, at least your honest. You should set up an FTP

 

[Ausm]

http://www.smr-usenet.com/review/

Good place for Usenet hosts reviews


Ausm

 

[SKORPI0]

Use UsenetServer.com and Newsbin Pro 4.1 ( 6 simultaneous connections). I can fill a 120GB HDD in less than a month. I get unlimited GB/month and pay only $14.95. Other usenet providers have a GB/month limit and if you go over, you pay extra. My download speed is usually at the limit of my DSL service which is 1345 kbps.

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Use UsenetServer.com and Newsbin Pro 4.1 ( 6 simultaneous connections). I can fill a 120GB HDD in less than a month. I get unlimited GB/month and pay only $14.95. Other usenet providers have a GB/month limit and if you go over, you pay extra. My download speed is usually at the limit of my DSL service which is 1345 kbps.

when you say 6 simultaneous connections, what do you mean exactly? I use Newsbin Pro also, but am still a n00b....thanks.

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Use UsenetServer.com and Newsbin Pro 4.1 ( 6 simultaneous connections). I can fill a 120GB HDD in less than a month. I get unlimited GB/month and pay only $14.95. Other usenet providers have a GB/month limit and if you go over, you pay extra. My download speed is usually at the limit of my DSL service which is 1345 kbps.

when you say 6 simultaneous connections, what do you mean exactly? I use Newsbin Pro also, but am still a n00b....thanks.

I can download 6 files at the same time.

Say I have a program w/c is compressed with the *rar extension and they are split into 60 files. I can download 6 files at a time, not one file at a time. So I can download files number 1-6, then 7-12, ..... 55-60. This is the limit of the provider I use w/c is UsenetServer.com. Others have limit of 4 at a time. Of course having a broadband service (DSL/Cable) helps a lot too.


With Newsbin pro, go to Option, then setup, then connections.

 

[waylman]

OK, cool...I usually do 2 files at once...Is there anyway to stop from having to download headers every time you switch between groups?

 

[CFster]

Another vote for XNews.

 

[nodoubts2k]

Originally posted by: CFster
Another vote for XNews.

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: 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.

Some news servers have search functions. I know with News Pro I can send a search word(s) up to the server and which groups I want to search. The server performs the search and sends the results back to me. I don't have to wait to download all the headers if I know what I'm looking for. Newsfeeds supports the search feature.

Newsfeeds is about $20/month for access to 12 servers. Each has a daily limit (around 750megs), but I very rarely hit the limit because of the multiple servers.

Another thing I like about News Pro is creating folders of groups. I can, for example, setup a folder for a.b.playstation2 and a.b.kenpsx. News Pro will combine the two groups and show me only the unique files all by clicking "Get New Headers" on the folder I've created. Great for setting up an audio folder, ps2 folder, xbox folder, etc.