Newsgroups...Is your ISP supposed to have one?

[FleshLight]

Right now I'm on charter cable and I was wondering if all/most broadband isps have their own newsgroups? I don't feel like paying a monthly fee for something I might be able to get for free. If so, then how would I find out how to access the newsgroup?

 

[jfall]

why not try contacting your ISP

 

[waggy]

bah. comcast lets use giganews. while giganews is great we only get 1gig limit wich sucks.

 

[txxxx]

Do you use newsgroups for text or binaries? If text's, then a quick google will get some good free text newsgroup servers. If binaries.... take a subscription with Newshosting or similar. I've used 3 ISPs newsgroups services, only Pipex where of any good, until the servers became overloaded by users...damn

 

[OMGoddess]

Use comcast. They have one. I like how the format is.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: OMGoddess
Use comcast. They have one. I like how the format is.

cocmast does not have one (well they are sopposed to it down soon).

 

[ZOXXO]

Prior to signing up for Alltel DSL none of their customer service reps knew what usenet was so I assumed they did not provide the service but after signing up I found news.alltel.net worked fine.

You may want to try news.charter.net with your email name and password to access usenet.

 

[Monoman]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: OMGoddess
Use comcast. They have one. I like how the format is.

cocmast does not have one (well they are sopposed to it down soon).

not true... here is San Antonio, TX they are matrixed through RR and they offer newsgroups. a little different, but ya know

 

[compudog]

Originally posted by: OMGoddess
Use comcast. They have one. I like how the format is.

Comcast here in PA does not have their own Usenet. They use Giganews, which is fine, but limited to 1GB of traffic per month. Since I don't do warez or pron, I don't care.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Sprint uses Earthlink's Newsgroup stuff.

1.5GB limit though, then you get god-awful speeds.

 

[A5]

My ISP (Knology) uses SuperNews I think...unlimited monthly downloads (that I can see), and good speeds.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Right now I'm on charter cable and I was wondering if all/most broadband isps have their own newsgroups? I don't feel like paying a monthly fee for something I might be able to get for free. If so, then how would I find out how to access the newsgroup?

charter uses Supernews as their usenet provider. you should be all good.
i think you can access it at news.charter.net

 

[silverpig]

shaw has a good news server. Getting 250 kB/s off of it now. Not great speeds, but good enough

 

[Nitemare]

I think so Roadrunner, but couldn't tell you for sure

 

[CFster]

The problem is that most ISP's usenet access has poor retention. Not to mention they tend to be selective about which newsgroups they offer access to.

So if you're downloading an (ahem) rather large multipart binary chances are your ISP won't have all the headers.

If you subscribe to a Usenet service such as EasyNews, Supernews or Giganews you'll get all the headers that are out there.

It's WELL worth the $10 I pay a month. WELL worth it.

 

[skace]

verizon has amazing retention

 

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by: skace
verizon has amazing retention

Ditto! Love my Verizon....complete complete complete fast fast fast included included included....

 

[FleshLight]

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Right now I'm on charter cable and I was wondering if all/most broadband isps have their own newsgroups? I don't feel like paying a monthly fee for something I might be able to get for free. If so, then how would I find out how to access the newsgroup?

charter uses Supernews as their usenet provider. you should be all good.
i think you can access it at news.charter.net

Thanks

Now how do I go on accessing it? The url leaves a blank page.

 

[Chaotic42]

It's news.charter.net. You don't need to use your name/password.

To use it, use a news reader (Outlook Express will work, but it sucks horribly). Put news.charter.net as your server, then it should provide a list of groups.

 

[FleshLight]

Oh thanks! Does anyone know of a good free newsreader other than outlook? I did a quick search and most of them you have to pay for.

 

[nageov3t]

I've never been happy with Verizon's speed... I just use pre-paid Astraweb.

 

[CFster]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Oh thanks! Does anyone know of a good free newsreader other than outlook? I did a quick search and most of them you have to pay for.

XNews

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: MisterMe

Originally posted by: skace
verizon has amazing retention

Ditto! Love my Verizon....complete complete complete fast fast fast included included included....

Yes. 5-8 days retention is enough for me to f@p away behind my wife's back.