Free trial at easynews.com

[brtspears2]

Easynews.com is a nice news server, with a nice web frontend to boot.

1gb, free trial. Their archives are amazing, about 40 days, every binary file that you ever needed is probally there.

 

[RadioactiveMagpies]

They're not accepting my webcertificate

 

[Shippy]

I've been using them for about 1.5 years. Good stuff. If you join their cancer research team, you can get up to 2g free a month as well.

 

[treemonkey]

They authorize your CC + 1gb is about 1.5 ISOs.

 

[Hector13]

Is their retention really 40 days? What about speed?

I am thinking of dropping airnews as their retention isn't as good as it used to be and they are really slow (but they have unlimited bandwidth).

 

[NordicNINE]

I like them alot. The web interface is great. No dealing with a news reader.

I'm not sure on the top speed, but I can get my full 180KB/sec when downloading.

Retension is long, speed is great...

 

[RagManX]

I've been using easynews for almost 2 years. Excellent retention (as much as 40 days, typically 25-30 days) and great speed (I've pulled as fast as 215 K on each of two download streams - 400 K+ overall speed). Well worth the money, in my book. Best news provider I've ever had.

RagManX

 

[amnesiac]

I'm partial to Giganews but if easynews is as good as you guys say... I'll give it a try..

 

[aoLhaTer]

this trial has always been in place, nothing new
theyve cut back their retention a little but their service is still A+

 

[Pabster]

EasyNews is still the best. Been using them since day one. Speed, Retention, awesome HTTP interface with killer searches. Nothing else comes close, and the price is right to boot. They've also improved their NNTP services significantly. Definitely a good investment

 

[JPSJPS]

Yup for Easynews
6Gig/month for $10 US
Free header downloads.
NNTP retention at least two weeks
(30% Extra download allowance for UUEncode overhead so you make out with Yenc low overhead)
WEB interface retention at least four weeks.
VERY complete posts especially since the use of PAR files.
Multiple connections fill my 3 Megabit Cable pipe easily both NNTP & WEB.
And best of all:
**A rep is always available at their easynews.support group**

BTW
Excellent listing/search engine: http://binnewz.net/
John

 

[Hoeboy]

giganews also gives 1 gb free.

 

[bugsysiegel]

I don't know about anyone else, but I can burn through 6GB in about 3 or 4 days if there is some cool stuff posted. I had giganews for about a year, and never once made it more than 2 weeks before running into my 16GB limit.

 

[Shippy]

<< I don't know about anyone else, but I can burn through 6GB in about 3 or 4 days if there is some cool stuff posted. I had giganews for about a year, and never once made it more than 2 weeks before running into my 16GB limit. >>



The best part about easynews is to use it in conjuction with your ISP's newsgroup service. For me, roadrunner has a pretty good completion rate (from 75%-100% completed posts). The only bad thing is retention (about 2 days). So, i use a program called Xnews to d/l everything I can get from RR, then whatever is missing or I missed i'll get from easynews. When I was using easynews exclusively, i'd go about a week or 2 before i had to pay another $10. Now, my $10 usually lasts me about 3-4 weeks. Just make sure you stock up on some blank cds...

my favorite newsgroups:

alt.binaries.multimedia
alt.binaries.vcd
alt.binaries.multimedia.anime
alt.binaries.anime
alt.binaries.multimedia.cartoons
alt.binaries.games.worms (0-day!!!!!)
alt.binaries.svcd
alt.binaries.vcd.svcd
alt.binaries.cd.image.clonecd
alt.binaries.images
alt.binaries.cd.images
alt.binaries.multimedia.buffy-v-slayer
alt.binaries.dreamcast

and a few others, as well as the repost groups for the groups above.

 

[kaborka]

Header d/l on Easynews, tho free, seems to be slow, but file d/l is fast, with up to 5 active connections allowed (counting the header connection). If you have a halfway decent ISP NNTP server, use NewsBin Pro to combine it with Easynews into one "virtual server". Give the ISP server 1st priority, and you'll probably not exhaust your 6GB/mo limit. Easynews's great completion will fill in the holes in the files on your ISP. NewsBin now also has intrinsic yenc support.

 

[stingray2]

I been using newsfeeds.com for 3 years now.. they have increased their prices over the years, and went from unlimited to daily download limits, but for aboutn $160 USD a year, you have access to around 19 different news servers, not one, but 19. and with limits like 600mb a day, if you max out on one server, you can switch to another and get what you need. I don't work for them, but I have not found another service that offers the quality download speeds, and amount of servers. my ISP (comcast.net) just introduced their own newsgroup access, since @home failed in Feb 2002 we have been without a news, so this was great. the offered you 1mb a month from giganews. well, as others have said, 1mb is nothing, I burned over half of that limit downloading the headers of 4 groups, just the headers. then downloaded some articles, and reached my limit within hours. and their download speed was the worst I have ever seen. and if I want to download more from giganews, I can give them money, or to be more accruate, throw money at them. it would cost me $79.99 for a 50gb's a month, and that would just about do me, but that comes out to almost $1000 a year, where as newsfeeds has good limits, and give access to 19 servers, not just one that giganews gives you, and newsfeeds cost is only $160 a year, not $1000.. and their Retention is measured in months, not weeks.
just my 2 cents.

 

[MisterE]

Thanks for the info. My subscription to alibis.com newsfeeds just ran out and I need to download something that is incomplete on my ISP's news server. This is exactly what I needed.

I also see the post about 6GB a month for $10. My ISP has a top-notch news server (most times, at least), but retention is only a couple of days. I may pick up the $10 easynews account and forget about my more-expensive alibis account.

E.

 

[Rainguy]

I've been a loyal Giganews user for over two years and have no complaints. I also prefer Forte's Agent 1.91 which now supports the latest newsgroup craze of yEnc encoding/decoding natively.

I've heard Easynews is good as well.

 

[Mike7]

I've only been using Giganews for a couple of months, but I agree with Rainguy that it's pretty good. I think I'm limited to 1 gig per month with them, which is ample for my needs. If I were someone who downloads huge amounts of binaries and so forth, I'd probably cough up a few extra bucks per month, for an increased download limit.

I also second Rainguy's praise of Agent, of which I've been a registered user for about a zillion years. (Well, Al Gore didn't invent the Internet that long ago. Still, I have been using Agent since version .99c, I think it was. And that was many versions ago.)

 

[Devistater]

Hmm, this might be worth looking into.

 

[dkcs]

Easynews offers a nice option to allow you re-route your connection from them for the best possible speed. Go to easynews trace and let the trace route run then click the "re-route" button, this will do another small packet test to let you choose which provider will be used to route your traffic through! I usualy get 300+ KB/Sec from my RR connection through them....

btw you need to be a member to re-route the traffic.

 

[Siniminister]

<< my ISP (comcast.net) just introduced their own newsgroup access, since @home failed in Feb 2002 we have been without a news, so this was great. >>


So you're saying Comcast now has their own news server aside from The Giganews 1GB Cap Crap? If so, please direct me towards it!

 

[stingray2]

Siniminister wrote....

<< my ISP (comcast.net) just introduced their own newsgroup access, since @home failed in Feb 2002 we have been without a news, so this was great. >>

So you're saying Comcast now has their own news server aside from The Giganews 1GB Cap Crap? If so, please direct me towards it!

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saying that comcast.net just introduced their own newsgroup access, was a jab at them for giving users a lame service such as Giganews.
so NO, comcast.net does not have their own newsgroup server, they should for the money we give them each month. when it was @home, they had their own newsgroup server, and the speed was the best thing about, other then the downloads were unlimited. Comcast needs to get their act together, because they boast about unlimted internet, then give you newgroup access that is limited to 1gb a month.

 

[chumbucket666]

In my experience, Easynews has longer retention and better speed than Giganews. I think it's really the most bang for your buck. As far as readers go, NewsBinPro wins hands down. Agent may be fine for reading text groups, but NBP kicks ass for binary downloads. Here's a news provider that I found that offers 50 gigs a month for $10 or 3 mos for $25, a year for $85 !!! The drawback is that they are located in the Netherlands, I don't know where their server is but I'm thinking about trying them out. Link to news provider


CB666

 

[SirDante]

I have an edu connection and use a friend's verizon ng account. I get about a gig an hour (would be more but they only allow 5 connections at a time and I only use 4 to be on the safe side).

Pars and yenc have made supplemental pay servers moot for me.

I get 99% completion and retention is great! Like 15-20 days.

Good deal for others tho. Thanks!