Newzbin/Usenet/Newsgroups Question

[Cristatus]

how do you find out your ISP. seriously, i'm at halls/dorms and they have their own network, and i was wondering if they run a newserver, but i think they've set up their own backbone or something.

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: logic1485
how do you find out your ISP. seriously, i'm at halls/dorms and they have their own network, and i was wondering if they run a newserver, but i think they've set up their own backbone or something.

I would doubt that your school is running a news server. If they are, it's probably highly filtered and does not include a lot of the groups people really like. It would be good for research and discussion purposes.

Usenetserver is a good $14.99/month choice. There's plenty others too in a wide range of prices. I'm not trying to pimp usenetserver. I just think their 3 day pricing is great and can give people a cheap way to try out newsgroups on a fairly decent server.

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: logic1485
how do you find out your ISP. seriously, i'm at halls/dorms and they have their own network, and i was wondering if they run a newserver, but i think they've set up their own backbone or something.

I would doubt that your school is running a news server. If they are, it's probably highly filtered and does not include a lot of the groups people really like. It would be good for research and discussion purposes.

Usenetserver is a good $14.99/month choice. There's plenty others too in a wide range of prices. I'm not trying to pimp usenetserver. I just think their 3 day pricing is great and can give people a cheap way to try out newsgroups on a fairly decent server.

i'll pimp usenetserver heheh...they're pretty damn good imho good speeds, 6 connections at a time...

 

[dethman]

this thread is now about kung pao chicken. usenet does not exist.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: logic1485
how do you find out your ISP. seriously, i'm at halls/dorms and they have their own network, and i was wondering if they run a newserver, but i think they've set up their own backbone or something.

I would doubt that your school is running a news server. If they are, it's probably highly filtered and does not include a lot of the groups people really like. It would be good for research and discussion purposes.

Usenetserver is a good $14.99/month choice. There's plenty others too in a wide range of prices. I'm not trying to pimp usenetserver. I just think their 3 day pricing is great and can give people a cheap way to try out newsgroups on a fairly decent server.

:thumbsup:
Although my vote goes to newshosting 😀

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: Dopefiend
:thumbsup:
Although my vote goes to newshosting 😀

Newshosting looks like a good option, I'm tempted to try it.

I don't use usenetserver, but I've seen numerous people on usenet screaming bloody murder recently about them going down the drain, more than normal.

Oh yeah, any major university will carry a newsfeed, just not the news you pirates and perverts are looking for (i.e. no binaries) 😛

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory

Originally posted by: Dopefiend
:thumbsup:
Although my vote goes to newshosting 😀

Newshosting looks like a good option, I'm tempted to try it.

I don't use usenetserver, but I've seen numerous people on usenet screaming bloody murder recently about them going down the drain, more than normal.

Oh yeah, any major university will carry a newsfeed, just not the news you pirates and perverts are looking for (i.e. no binaries) 😛

I forget the retention ratio (however, it's very good), but I think I pay ~$14 a month for unlimited downloads, and the speeds are always 58k/sec - the max that my connection will do anyway.

Highly recommended :thumbsup:

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: KPSHAH316
First, if this is against forum policis, please lock this.


How often do your files become corrupt? I downloaded an iso and the rar had some errors. Also what is ISP Retention? I have optimum online and can d/l 2 threads at a good speed.

Thanks,
Kishan


Once again if the mods want to lock this, I understand.

:thumbsup::beer::thumbsup:

 

[tigerbait]

Originally posted by: Dopefiend

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory

Originally posted by: Dopefiend
:thumbsup:
Although my vote goes to newshosting 😀

Newshosting looks like a good option, I'm tempted to try it.

I don't use usenetserver, but I've seen numerous people on usenet screaming bloody murder recently about them going down the drain, more than normal.

Oh yeah, any major university will carry a newsfeed, just not the news you pirates and perverts are looking for (i.e. no binaries) 😛

I forget the retention ratio (however, it's very good), but I think I pay ~$14 a month for unlimited downloads, and the speeds are always 58k/sec - the max that my connection will do anyway.

Highly recommended :thumbsup:

I also recommened newshosting.com. I do the $15 unlimited plan, and most of the time I get speeds around 3 Mbps on my cable connection.

 

[AU Tiger]

I signed up at newshosting and am getting pitiful performance. Max seems to be 180kb. I wonder if my cable service is capping usenet somehow. My roadrunner newsserver has crappy performance as well. I am on a Road Runner business account for working from home. I miss usenet, but then again I am saving 44.95 a month by letting my company pay my way. What to do, what to do?

 

[axelfox]

Originally posted by: chowmein

Originally posted by: dabuddha
First rule of newsgroups is, you do not talk about newsgroups.

death!

What newsgroups? 🙂

 

[thirdlegstump]

Originally posted by: AU Tiger
I signed up at newshosting and am getting pitiful performance. Max seems to be 180kb. I wonder if my cable service is capping usenet somehow. My roadrunner newsserver has crappy performance as well. I am on a Road Runner business account for working from home. I miss usenet, but then again I am saving 44.95 a month by letting my company pay my way. What to do, what to do?

Hm...I'm on RR too and from Easynews.com I get like 580KB/sec which is pretty much the most I can expect from my connection. Are your HTTP downloads also 180KB/sec?

 

[thirdlegstump]

Also is there anything like Easynews with it's search engine and zipmanager but with cheap unlimited accounts? Every other Usenet provider seems to be the regular usenet without browsing/searching capabilities.

 

[DaWhim]

ool has BAD completion and short retention. newsgroups service sucks