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Usenet Provider Recommendations? ...and other questions

gigahertz20

gigahertz20

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Just got done searching through this forum for old posts about usenet/newsgroups/etc. and found some good stuff but it was mostly old.

So I wanted to create a new up-to-date thread on whom you guys currently recommend for a newsgroup/usenet provider? It seems like Astraweb has quite a large following of people, and I like their $25 for 180GB plan. NewsDemon seems to be well liked as well, and Giganews for whatever reasons have priced themselves out of the market so I don't see why anyone would ever choose them, this review talks about it (http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/Giganews.html).

What about recommendations for a newsgroup client? Newsleecher, Newsbin Pro, and GrabIt seem to be the most mentioned. Most people say Newsleecher is the best because of the SuperSearch feature, and it is worth getting it if you can get it for free. Suggestions?

This will be my first time using usenet/newsgroups (I'm converting from torrents) and I read as much as I could so I mostly understand how NZB files work and everything else, but are there any other tips or things I should know?

BTW for anyone reading this that always wanted to know about usenet/newsgroups here is a guide to everything (http://www.p2presource.com/newsgroup.html) there is no talk or links to copyrighted files in that link/website so it is safe.

Also, I'm sure someone will want to post the cliched fight club reference that is posted whenever someone mentions Usenet..... "The first rule about Usenet is..." but if everybody actually followed that then you wouldn't know how to use it either.
 
Fritzo said:
Good lord, just buy your damn movies instead of downloading them.
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Let's not get into that, especially when my OP doesn't mention anything about that. My questions are about Usenet, not about how to download illegal copyrighted material that may be on them.
 
Fritzo said:
Good lord, just buy your damn movies instead of downloading them.
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If the movie business had any business sense they'd get with the program and create their own usenet business and offer it at prices competitive to the others. Then they could create their own website to compete with the likes of nzbmatrix and newzbin and charge monthly access to those as well. Guarantee they'd recover a decent amount of 'lost sales'.

What these companies don't get is if they would spend a fraction of their time/money/effort on hedging their bets by following what I've outlined above instead of spending that money on lawyers to fighting the unwinnable fight they'd be a lot better off. Spending millions on lawyers with a zero guaranteed return vs spending millions on alternative business ideas to recapture a lost market. Seems like a no brainer to me.

<edit> and I mean that the studios can make it "underground" and not associate it with their names at all. After all they don't want to actually encourage this kind of thing. But at the end of the day, it's going to happen, so create a separate business entity with no real affiliation to your mega-studios and try to get what you can out of it.
 
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I use supernews for $10 a month unlimited with SSL. I use sabnzb for my client and nzbmatrix.com as my search engine.
 
I use astraweb for Usenet services. got it for $11 / month unlimited

I have SABNZB set up for my downloads. Definitely recommend using a program like Sickbeard. Also recommend using Couchpotato. Both are great auto downloaders.

To find NZB's, I use NZBs.org. As a backup, I use NZBmatrix. Paid $11 one time fee for that.

It all works awesome. LMK if you want any help setting up that or getting a media center set up. Look up media browser, its amazing.
 
I use Easynews for $10/month. They only give 20 GB for this package but the GBs roll over and I've been with them for more than 10 years so I have some 500 GBs of quota that I'm carrying at all time. Which is enough for me.

I'm guessing the NZB stuff is trendy these days and they are very convenient, but I'm old fashion and never tried it. I've always just been using Easynews Global Search that they have been developing since the early 2000s and it never fails me.
 
gigahertz20 said:
Let's not get into that, especially when my OP doesn't mention anything about that. My questions are about Usenet, not about how to download illegal copyrighted material that may be on them.
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It's the only thing people use Usenet for. We run a branch of Giganews and watch all those movies being transferred all day long.
 
Thanks for the replies, good information. I forgot to ask this question in my OP but hopefully someone can answer it. If I get an account on Astraweb, can someone else share it? I was hoping to share it with a friend so we could both use it at the same time, is that possible?

(Edit) I searched the site and found my answer, I guess you can share your account but only if you don't have the unlimited plan.

Can we connect from more than 1 IP address?


We limit access to 1 IP address per account at any one time for Unlimited use accounts. This is to discourage account sharing.

If you would like to connect from more than 1 IP address at the same time, we recommend you purchase our Pay by Download plans.




Are we allowed to share accounts?

Account sharing is not allowed on our Unlimited use accounts. We limit access to 1 IP address per account at any one time.
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Nebor said:
Can anyone contest this? What's an honest use for Usenet?
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Before binary newsgroups came about people mostly used it to talk with one another, there were no forums like this back in the day. But now, it's mostly used for the binary newsgroups.

"Usenet was originally designed as a bulletin-board service, and so there's a ton of text content available on Usenet, but once binary newsgroups made their way into Usenet, it quickly became a popular place to find any sort of files that interest you."
(http://lifehacker.com/5601586/how-to-get-started-with-usenet-in-three-simple-steps)
 
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Nebor said:
Can anyone contest this? What's an honest use for Usenet?
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In Canada downloading music isn't illegal (Canadians pay a special levy on storage devices to compensate artists) but sharing music is. Therefore many people do this via Usenet rather than bittorrent.
 
Nebor said:
Can anyone contest this? What's an honest use for Usenet?
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I have posts in usenet dating back to 1995 and still post there regularly. There are many people , some very prominent researchers and engineers that post to usenet. Check out sci. groups some time. There is everything from cardiology to physics discussed in those groups daily. Then there is the comp. groups with everything from programming to hardware.
Usenet is great because it is what the internet used to be. Totally uncensored with whatever you post existing throughout the internet , not just on one site or one server and not controlled by any one company or country.
 
I heard Newshosting and Newsleecher (2.99 sub) is the best bang for the buck combo. According to some they have been using it for almost a decade.
 
I chose astraweb because they were cheaper than giganews. Be careful who you pick because some are the same servers under different names. Astraweb own their servers and do not resell . You are always dealing with the source when you use them same as giganews that is why the price is higher.

Highwinds is resold under UsenetServer, Newshosting, Easynews , NewsDemon and tens of other companies. If it is less than $10 it is Highwinds.



Giganews owns supernews but doesn't give it the attention they do giganews so it often suffers in servers and completion.



 
cubby1223 said:
Why not? The OP is 100% about downloading illegal copyrighted material.
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Because if this thread starts talking about downloading copyrighted material then it will just be locked by the mods. It seems like whenever there is a thread that has the words torrent or usenet in it, eventually someone will start talking about downloading illegal copyrighted material and then others will say how wrong that is...then it turns into an argument and the thread gets hijacked. Everyone can make their own choices, who cares, no need to make this thread into another debate.
 
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