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good usenet service?

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bluehorizon

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I'm thinking of signing up with a usenet service, like Giganews or something. Do I really need to do this to access newsgroups?
 
Your ISP should have a USENET service. What they don't tell you is that they frequently contract this out to other companies. 😉

I use easynews though. Only 10GB/month, which is a pain. Heard good things about giganews though.
 
I am with CableOne for my ISP service and the retention is awesome on the newsgroups. They source through Supernews.com.

I am able to connect with two connections/IP and grab at 65KB/sec per connection. (total of 130KB/sec)

The downloads are unlimited, which is great.
 
Originally posted by: jamesbond007
I am with CableOne for my ISP service and the retention is awesome on the newsgroups. They source through Supernews.com.

I am able to connect with two connections/IP and grab at 65KB/sec per connection. (total of 130KB/sec)

The downloads are unlimited, which is great.
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130k a sec??? Thats ok and all, but for the best newsserver I have ever used:

Usenet

$15 a month and unlimited downloads, and I get a constant speed of 350-380k a sec. Very fast and very reliable, and the files are on there forever. I highly recommend it 🙂
 
My ISP, Shaw, has awesome news servers. They limit the connection to 245k/sec. With GrabIt, I can have 8 connections running at a time.

With some trickery, I can add multiple shaw newsservers and add up the bandwidth. I've gotten as high as 700k/sec sustained. I think they start sending warnings if I go over 100gigs a month..
 
sp80 Yes, I know of Usenet as most of my friends use it. However, I like keeping an extra $180 in my pocket every year and plus, I'm a very patient man, so as long as I get access, I'm good to go. 😉

BTW, my preferred client is NewsLeecher...I use to use GrabIt, but it was such a memory hog. NewsLeecher is faster, has a better GUI (is prettier 😛), and has more abilities and features, at least in my opinion.
 
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