Usenet Deal 11Dollars

jozi · 25-03-2009 9:32pm

Anyone want to send me an invite for Newzbin?

I'm still not sure what this usenet is but reading up on it to make sure this deal is worth it for me

kaisersose77 · 25-03-2009 9:39pm

ye maybe i exaggerated, but it's still hit and miss, and most popular scene releases are going to die after a while judging by posts i've seen on sites like rlsl*g.

but then again most people are only interested in present stuff, and i think the combination i mentioned above cant be beaten. Yes the stuff might on rapidshare, but you cant guarantee the links you see today are going to work tomorrow. Yes you can try and find links elsewhere, but its still not any easier than usenet in my opinion and by most ppl in this thread.

AntiRip · 25-03-2009 9:48pm

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

I suppose you pay for what you get and for 7.60 pound for a year i wouldnt even call it a pay site.

I think it's £15.60 for 52 weeks or £2.40 for 8 weeks. Still pretty cheap though!

leon79 wrote:

they sent me a mail telling me that my account was terminated for what i was downloading

What! are you serious? What else do people use rapidshare for? I've never heard of this happening before. Were you sharing your account with other people?

byte · 25-03-2009 9:57pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I giving astraweb+newzbin+sabnzbd+ a shot now. But I'm getting an error downloading. For the server configuration I put in host : europe.news.astraweb.com, Port : 8080, Username, Password, Timeout: 120 and connections I put in 20 and clicked on SSL. Are these settings correct? ANymore settings to fill in? Any help appreciated

Also, can I manual input a download limit speed. Don't want to choke my bandwidth completely?

You'll need to use the SSL server address (in Member area) if you want to use SSL, otherwise untick SSL.

Also, europe.news.astraweb.com is not a valid server address. replace europe with eu.

Tillotson · 25-03-2009 10:02pm

There was a time when people were discreet. Looking at you OP. If this was digg or reddit this would of been downvoted to oblivion.

Usenet is decaying BTW. Getting harder and harder to find good stuff.

PowerHouseDan · 25-03-2009 10:39pm

Every year after xmas they have a half price sale so just buy 52weeks at 7.60

AntiRip wrote: »

I think it's £15.60 for 52 weeks or £2.40 for 8 weeks. Still pretty cheap though!

What! are you serious? What else do people use rapidshare for? I've never heard of this happening before. Were you sharing your account with other people?

AntiRip · 26-03-2009 4:03am

Well, I'm off and running. Sabnzbd has some pretty nice features much the same as Flashget really. I'm a little bit turned off by the larger files sizes tbh. Not good if you have a download cap. I'll give it a little time anyways as I have the 8 weeks with Newzbin. Thanks to the OP for getting me to actually try it out.

Was thinking about it for some time but always thought it was too complicated but seems to be easy enough. Will take alot though to take me away from the RS forums and blogs but I guess I can use them for reference.

AntiRip · 26-03-2009 4:04am

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

Every year after xmas they have a half price sale so just buy 52weeks at 7.60

thanks PowerHouseDan

kaisersose77 · 26-03-2009 8:43am

sabnzbd only downloads the par files if needed (a rar files is corrupt and it needs to repair it), so in most cases it wont need to download any extra files

PowerHouseDan · 26-03-2009 9:07am

Yup which is very handy.

kaisersose77 wrote: »

sabnzbd only downloads the par files if needed (a rar files is corrupt and it needs to repair it), so in most cases it wont need to download any extra files

AntiRip · 26-03-2009 11:52pm

well I've been using it for a day now, Sabnzbd, newzbin, astraweb combination and so far it's ok. It's fast but there are alot of connection errors now and again. Also, what I've downloaded has hard subs in them which didn't say it had on the .nzb or nfo. A little disappointing. I just think that the RS info sites are alot better graphically and more informative of what you're downloading.

byte · 26-03-2009 11:55pm

kaisersose77 wrote: »

sabnzbd only downloads the par files if needed (a rar files is corrupt and it needs to repair it), so in most cases it wont need to download any extra files

I didn't know that, thanks for the insight. Good to know.

tw0nk · 26-03-2009 11:59pm

AntiRip, there are lots of different sites like that for usenet too, Im not sure if I am allowed to link here but one such place contains the words file talk and sharing not necessarily in that order.

AntiRip · 27-03-2009 2:18am

tw0nk wrote: »

AntiRip, there are lots of different sites like that for usenet too, Im not sure if I am allowed to link here but one such place contains the words file talk and sharing not necessarily in that order.

No need to link. Thats good to know. Thanks tw0nk

Kristok · 27-03-2009 5:11am

just signed up for this been looking at trying out usenet for a whlie anyone recommend a good usenet client ?

AntiRip · 27-03-2009 5:33am

Kristok wrote: »

just signed up for this been looking at trying out usenet for a whlie anyone recommend a good usenet client ?

sabnzbd+

KoemansCC · 27-03-2009 7:32am

Kristok wrote: »

just signed up for this been looking at trying out usenet for a whlie anyone recommend a good usenet client ?

Grabit...never had ap problem

Kristok · 27-03-2009 3:13pm

sabnzbd dosnt seem to have a search option and grabit didnt work straight away said it was out of date first time i started it

eioneill · 27-03-2009 3:40pm

I'm subscribed with Usenext myself. Seems to max out my UPC connection. So I can say I'm happy with their service. Has a download wizard aswell so unzips all the rar files automatically to give you an avi file etc. Think I'm paying about €8 a months for 25gb a month.

27-03-2009 4:27pm

Kristok wrote: »

just signed up for this been looking at trying out usenet for a while anyone recommend a good usenet client ?

Alt.Binz

AntiRip · 27-03-2009 4:33pm

eioneill wrote: »

I'm subscribed with Usenext myself. Seems to max out my UPC connection. So I can say I'm happy with their service. Has a download wizard aswell so unzips all the rar files automatically to give you an avi file etc. Think I'm paying about €8 a months for 25gb a month.

thats very expensive eioneill when you can get unlimited cap from astraweb for the same price, even rapishare gives you 80gb a month for 4.50

zAbbo · 27-03-2009 4:35pm

Kristok wrote: »

sabnzbd dosnt seem to have a search option and grabit didnt work straight away said it was out of date first time i started it

Signup for newzbin.com

I've a funny feeling that those who have tried newsgroups haven't used a proper indexing nzb service, which is pointless imo.

Rsaeire · 27-03-2009 4:37pm

I use Astraweb, thanks to the OP, Newsleecher and Binsearch for all my Usenet downloading. I used Giganews for the last few years and never had a problem, but Astraweb is cheaper so I decided to change.

I’ve looked at some of the other Usenet search engines too, but never like their layout. I’ll be sticking to Binsearch for sure.

Kristok · 27-03-2009 4:38pm

newsbin I need an invitation from a current member anyone want to send me one ?

kriskeogh@yahoo.co.uk

eioneill · 27-03-2009 5:14pm

AntiRip wrote: »

thats very expensive eioneill when you can get unlimited cap from astraweb for the same price, even rapishare gives you 80gb a month for 4.50

I use Usenext for ease of use! Has Astraweb got its own built in search engine and preview of files? Just questions because I have never used the service myself. Too often rapid share links are dead and there is a cap on downloads per day. I usually only download every other week about 5gbs. So the 25gb I get for my money and how easy the files can be found is why i stick with Usenext. Thats just my personal opinion. Why change when your happy with a service?

AntiRip · 27-03-2009 5:45pm

eioneill wrote: »

I use Usenext for ease of use! Has Astraweb got its own built in search engine and preview of files? Just questions because I have never used the service myself. Too often rapid share links are dead and there is a cap on downloads per day. I usually only download every other week about 5gbs. So the 25gb I get for my money and how easy the files can be found is why i stick with Usenext. Thats just my personal opinion. Why change when your happy with a service?

I totally agree with there, if you're happy and get the stuff you want thats all you need. I'm only using newsgroups a day or two and I still leaning towards RS tbh. Last night I noticed that one of my shows was instantly on RS, and it was only today it surfaced on newzbin. I'll go back to RS at the end of month again (have a premium account). Like you said, why change when you're happy with a service

27-03-2009 5:50pm

But don't you RS users find downloading something in around 4-5 parts is a pain? Most dvdrips have many more parts than that. You have to select each part individually and download it.

jimi_t · 27-03-2009 6:21pm

Any chance someone lovely could e-mail me a newzbin invite?

specialheadsup (attta) hotmail.com

kaisersose77 · 27-03-2009 6:29pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I totally agree with there, if you're happy and get the stuff you want thats all you need. I'm only using newsgroups a day or two and I still leaning towards RS tbh. Last night I noticed that one of my shows was instantly on RS, and it was only today it surfaced on newzbin. I'll go back to RS at the end of month again (have a premium account). Like you said, why change when you're happy with a service

on the right hand side beside go on newzbin, pick usenet cond. Some times some stuff might take longer than usual to show up in the normal search results.

install nzbstatus plugin for firefox, and its only a matter of clicking on an icon for sabnzbd to start downloading.

Also for tv shows in sabnzbd you can set up rss feeds from tvnzb so that your favourite shows are automatically downloaded and you can get it to ignore 720p versions or vice versa.

its all too easy!

btw watch out for ppl posting fake rapidshare links in order to get your login details

AntiRip · 27-03-2009 7:32pm

Deleted User wrote: »

But don't you RS users find downloading something in around 4-5 parts is a pain? Most dvdrips have many more parts than that. You have to select each part individually and download it.

Not at all. It's the easiest thing in the world! I use greasemonkey script in firefox with RS link checker which shows you live/dead links by putting a green/red mark beside each link. All I do then is highlight all the links, even if it's 50 links!, and flashget picks up all the links and download. Absolutely painless. You also need flashgot addon as well.

AntiRip · 27-03-2009 7:33pm

kaisersose77 wrote: »

on the right hand side beside go on newzbin, pick usenet cond. Some times some stuff might take longer than usual to show up in the normal search results.

install nzbstatus plugin for firefox, and its only a matter of clicking on an icon for sabnzbd to start downloading.

Also for tv shows in sabnzbd you can set up rss feeds from tvnzb so that your favourite shows are automatically downloaded and you can get it to ignore 720p versions or vice versa.

its all too easy!

btw watch out for ppl posting fake rapidshare links in order to get your login details

Thanks for the info!;)

27-03-2009 8:40pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Not at all. It's the easiest thing in the world! I use greasemonkey script in firefox with RS link checker which shows you live/dead links by putting a green/red mark beside each link. All I do then is highlight all the links, even if it's 50 links!, and flashget picks up all the links and download. Absolutely painless. You also need flashgot addon as well.

Thanks for that! I had a feeling I wasn't doing something right!

BernardMc · 29-03-2009 4:55pm

Well I've signed up to Astraweb for one month, going to see f its better than Megashares, so far so good...

Can anyone send me an invite for Newzbin please? Would be much appreciated

It's <SNIP>

EDIT: Please don't post e-mail addresses here!

Thanks!

Edit 2:
Oops sorry about that, can someone please PM me if they have an invite for Newzbin? thanks

byte · 29-03-2009 11:01pm

It's definitely better than Megashares for me.

jozi · 29-03-2009 11:14pm

I can't get it to work at all!

I signed up to Astra web & Newzbin. Downloaded Sabnzbd+ 0.4.8 and the firefox plugin SABnnzdb. Followed the instructions from here. Tried different Astraweb servers and port configurations in SABnzbd.

Then I've gone to Newzbin, found a file I would like to download and click on the send to SABnzb icon. Whats meant to happen then? If i click Que in SABnzb nothing shows up.

Am I missing something, doing something wrong?

byte · 29-03-2009 11:28pm

To start with, you might be better just downloading an NZB manually, and entering it manually into SABnzbd, see if it's downloading from Astraweb servers first. After that you can worry about plugins.

I'm not familiar with the Firefox plugin you're using (I use nzbdStatus), but there should be Settings option somewhere. Make sure the SABnzbd URL in SABnnzdb settings is identical to the URL you use to see SABnzbd in your web browser (eg. h**p://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/ ), or it won't work. When you click an nzb link, it'll take a few moments for it to appear on your queue.

jozi · 29-03-2009 11:30pm

The SABnzdb port was different from the plugin to the local address. all sorted now

Thanks, seems to work fine now.

byte · 29-03-2009 11:52pm

Good stuff, glad you got it sorted!

aaronm13 · 30-03-2009 6:17pm

Just after signing up to Astraweb from all the positive feedback on here.So just looking for a newzbin invite to get me going as this seems to be the best solution,thanks in advance.

Got an invite sorted,thanks again.

Bros123 · 30-03-2009 9:37pm

Have been using Astraweb for ages with no probs!!

This is the first I've heard of newzbin so would anyone be kind enough to send me an invite,PLEASE!!!!:o

Thanks!

AntiRip · 30-03-2009 10:28pm

Bros123 wrote: »

Have been using Astraweb for ages with no probs!!

This is the first I've heard of newzbin so would anyone be kind enough to send me an invite,PLEASE!!!!:o

Thanks!

I find other sites just as good if not better than newzbin, don't see it as that special at all. Newsleech etc. and if you find some forum sites are just as good

30-03-2009 10:38pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I find other sites just as good if not better than newzbin, don't see it as that special at all. Newsleech etc. and if you find some forum sites are just as good

Indeed. Nzbmatrix has a free account that can provide you with all the latest stuff.

Snake Plisken · 30-03-2009 11:44pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed. Nzbmatrix has a free account that can provide you with all the latest stuff.

Is google or UPC blocking this site, as I'm getting broken links for the site, and Google reports back about removing 3 search results due to a complaint from US Digital Millennium Copyright Act

jimi_t · 30-03-2009 11:48pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed. Nzbmatrix has a free account that can provide you with all the latest stuff.

20 Day Retention is useless with that free account. Merlins-Portal isn't too bad at all and has a much higher retention, not great organisation though. Binsearch.info is horrific to find what you're looking for, but fairly comprehensive.

Someone nice want to PM me a newzbin invite?

AntiRip · 31-03-2009 8:18am

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Is google or UPC blocking this site, as I'm getting broken links for the site, and Google reports back about removing 3 search results due to a complaint from US Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Google is certainly not blocking this site. You should also try OpenDNS