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Newsgroup question.

mind if I hijack this thread?

Well you see I am pissing blood and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good nephrologist.
 
I think most highspeed providers also privide you with a newsgroup service but most of the time the files are incomplete. I should know, I have SBC! 75% of the files are incomplete.
 
i'm testing astraweb right now... 10bucks for unlimited dl for 1 month.... you are limited by speed of dl though... like 640k... so if you got broadband that is faster than this, you're not gonna dl any faster....

retention is 10 days or so for binaries.... i'd like at least 15days... since i can go a week without dling... completion looks good though...

seems as good as easynews.... but only used astraweb 1 week so far... no final verdict on the completion...


easynews has much longer retention than astraweb, especially easynews' webbased feed i think..
 
Originally posted by: abc
i'm testing astraweb right now... 10bucks for unlimited dl for 1 month.... you are limited by speed of dl though... like 640k... so if you got broadband that is faster than this, you're not gonna dl any faster....

retention is 10 days or so for binaries.... i'd like at least 15days... since i can go a week without dling... completion looks good though...

seems as good as easynews.... but only used astraweb 1 week so far... no final verdict on the completion...


easynews has much longer retention than astraweb, especially easynews' webbased feed i think..
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Thanks for the info. Please bump this thread in the future for the final verdict. I'll check on it time to time. Anyone else want to add helpful advices for this thread?
 
Originally posted by: edro13
I hear it's good. 🙂D)
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OK, I was replying to your post before you edited it. 🙂 To answer your question, people sign up for newsgroup services because their ISPs don't generally go out of their way to facilitate piracy of software, movies, tv shows, and hardcore goat-related pornography.
 
abc
I see it's limited to 600Kbit/s but it alows up to 4 connections. If you DL using different newsgroups simultaneosly, the bandwidth cap shouldn't matter (unless you have >2.4Mbit/s bandwith)....or am I full of crap?
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: edro13
I hear it's good. 🙂D)
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OK, I was replying to your post before you edited it. 🙂 To answer your question, people sign up for newsgroup services because their ISPs don't generally go out of their way to facilitate piracy of software, movies, tv shows, and hardcore goat-related pornography.
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Shhhhhhh. RIAA undercovers are everywhere.
 
hey basil... well i get 6 connections not 4.... but despite that... the total avg. bandwidth is about 590 to 620Kbps

through astraweb...

this is via my newsleecher client.

when connecting to easynews, i get about 1.70Kbps on avg. through 9 connections.

i am curious if I pay for the 10$/25gb model of subscription what speeds I can get.


btw after now using astraweb for a longer period of time since my previous post, i say completion is not as good as easynews. and some posts, they didn't appear full until 4 days after they originally appeared.

for example a post appeared on the 9th, but was incomplete until the 15th...
 
Astraweb is very good. Retention is around 9 days or so and download speed for me is around 2mbps.
 
Originally posted by: mugs

To answer your question, people sign up for newsgroup services because their ISPs don't generally go out of their way to facilitate piracy of software, movies, tv shows, and hardcore goat-related pornography.
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That goat group actually contains mainly radio , but also a few tv shows. I also have SBC, so I know what kind of a**wipes those news administrators are.
 
Giganews.

The header downloads are free.

If you download a lot of headers from binary newsgroups you'll realize how important this is.

 
Originally posted by: CFster
Giganews.

The header downloads are free.

If you download a lot of headers from binary newsgroups you'll realize how important this is.
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However, I used up my 1 gig/month limit in one day when I had the Comcast package.
 
Originally posted by: Pepsei
With Verizon DSL, you get FREE usenet access...... 🙂
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Yup, with a good one-week-plus retention on the popular binary newsgroups, decent download speeds paired with unlimited downloads, and seldom needing to worry myself about the stray incomplete/broken file ruining or delaying a massive download, life is good with Verizon. This is all included at the low, low price of their DSL service. Bless their kind, freedom-loving corporate hearts. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Lars
Astraweb is very good. Retention is around 9 days or so and download speed for me is around 2mbps.
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I agree - they're probably the best deal for binary news service.
 
I used Astraweb and Easynews. Easynews is definately the better server, but 6gb/month is pretty low. Astraweb was an alright service, good speeds.. I found retention/completion bad -- plus no web interface, so have fun downloading 1gig of headers and caching it all, then performing incremental updates every couple of days and caching those as well
 
Astraweb is not bad, I've used it for a few months now... I got their $10 for 25GB plan, and get decent speeds, anywhere from 2-12Mbit. Not as fast as Easynews, but it'll do. Retention isn't as good either, but it's good enough. I mostly use Astraweb as a primary now, with Easynews for fills...

Dave
 
Originally posted by: Pepsei
Originally posted by: CFster
Giganews.

The header downloads are free.

If you download a lot of headers from binary newsgroups you'll realize how important this is.
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However, I used up my 1 gig/month limit in one day when I had the Comcast package.
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6GB for $12.



 
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