So I just singed up with Newshosting....

[Goosemaster]

:Q

o.........m..........g......!

Needless to say, I am probably going to run out of harddrive space in a bit

 

[Queasy]

Heh...I did the same the other day. I picked up Newsbin Pro as well because Xnews chokes on the large amount of headers available to me now.

 

[arcenite]

Singed? I'd expect better from you.

 

[royaldank]

I've recently been doing the usenetsever 3 days unlimited plan once or twice a month. 20-30 gigs for $3 is quite a deal. You could easily get more if you tried.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: arcenite
Singed? I'd expect better from you.

Seeing the words "720p" and "1080i" makes we want to sing..


"1080p" maeks me want to combust....

 

[Modeps]

That looks pretty nice, how does it compare to Easynews? (30+ day retention)

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Modeps
That looks pretty nice, how does it compare to Easynews? (30+ day retention)

25 day retention. Very few if any incompletes though.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Modeps
That looks pretty nice, how does it compare to Easynews? (30+ day retention)

I've heard 24 days to quotes of 35+...my 30GB batch says it'll be done in 19h so i don't care


and there is always .repost

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Heh...I did the same the other day. I picked up Newsbin Pro as well because Xnews chokes on the large amount of headers available to me now.

waste of money. newsleecher is 100x better than newsbin

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Queasy
Heh...I did the same the other day. I picked up Newsbin Pro as well because Xnews chokes on the large amount of headers available to me now.

waste of money. newsleecher is 100x better than newsbin

Ehhh...I'm still on the trial of Newsbin. I'll try Newsleecher also.

 

[Modeps]

Cool, how's the speed? Just the website loads quick and it's certainly prettier than Easynews.. I'm a sucker for snazz.

 

[smc13]

So what is newhosting? From the subject I was guessing it's a band.

 

[imported_Reck]

good thing i have a good free service.

 

[imported_chuckey]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Queasy
Heh...I did the same the other day. I picked up Newsbin Pro as well because Xnews chokes on the large amount of headers available to me now.

waste of money. newsleecher is 100x better than newsbin

Ehhh...I'm still on the trial of Newsbin. I'll try Newsleecher also.

Newsleecher is great, especially with the Super Search (basically google for the newsgroups)! Almost makes it too easy to fill up the old hard drive. Using that with usenetserver and I top out at 500Kbps!

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Cool, how's the speed? Just the website loads quick and it's certainly prettier than Easynews.. I'm a sucker for snazz.

I've been getting the full speed of my DSL connection (~1.5mbs). The unlimited download account is limited to 600kb/s and 4 connections. I had two connections running.

 

[Modeps]

Sounds nice, when I'm up for another month, I'll have to check it out. I'm not a fan of Easynews' search function...

 

[royaldank]

Newsfeeds allows server searching of of the headers with a capable newsreader. I would imagine alot more do as well. Nowdays, there isn't much reason to download all headers unless you want to browse everything posted. If you know what you are looking for, server-side searching is much quicker.

 

[Goosemaster]

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[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Cool, how's the speed? Just the website loads quick and it's certainly prettier than Easynews.. I'm a sucker for snazz.

475-500kB/s.....maxing out my conenction

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Reck
good thing i have a good free service.

Comcast gives me a 2GB/month giganews account, and somehow, overnight, I downloaded 9GB

It was nice and free, but I needed to step up.

 

[StageLeft]

I was cheap, so I tried news.astraweb.com and was pretty happy with the service, though my ISP has a good completion/retention server they outsource everyone to. Unfortunately it's locked at 30KB/s, but if you're patient that is sufficient.