Usenet Deal 11Dollars

byte

Using Sabnzb now, it's sure fantastic. I love the way it pretty much handles everything.

carbsy

I graduated from newsleecher to sabnzd a good few years ago now and find it fantastic.Have it running on all sorts of devices, even a QNAP TS-509 NAS. Love it!

zAbbo

A lot of good info here - http://shsc.info/NewsGroups

And I'd recommend the Firefox addon here - https://nzbdstatus.bountysource.com/ which allows you to send directly to the daemon (sabnzbd service), this is really usefull for newzbin.com etc.

carbsy

zAbbo wrote: »

And I'd recommend the Firefox addon here - https://nzbdstatus.bountysource.com/ which allows you to send directly to the daemon (sabnzbd service), this is really usefull for newzbin.com etc.

Very handy, thanks!

I use Alt.Binz , HitNews and nzbmatrix

tw0nk

is astraweb down at the mo? if it is my inital impressions of this site are quite bad!

"Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

OK after a few minutes its back again, panic over

DingDong

tw0nk wrote: »

is astraweb down at the mo? if it is my inital impressions of this site are quite bad!

"Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

Works fine for me on the EU server

tw0nk

what is newzbin.com? It says I need an invite to join, would anyone care to invite me?

zAbbo

tw0nk wrote: »

what is newzbin.com? It says I need an invite to join, would anyone care to invite me?

It's a paid indexing service, basically lets you easily browse content available.

If you're using newsgroups, you need something like this, especially if you had the daemon running on your NAS, combined with the firefox extention - downloading is just a 1 click job, or zero click if you're using RSS feeds etc. in newzbin

Anyone needing an invite, I've got 5 - just PM me your email addy.

DingDong

tw0nk wrote: »

what is newzbin.com? It says I need an invite to join, would anyone care to invite me?

I was talking about their astrawebs news server. You don't need to pay for a indexing service newzleech.com or binsearch.info are free

tw0nk

thanks for reply zabbo, Ive been using usenet with giganews for 3 years now and always used a combination of nzbsrus and binsearch.info, is newzbin.com much better than these? is it so much better that it is worth paying for? thanks in advance, and if your reply is favourable to the questions I asked I will pm you for an invite if thats ok, thanks again.

zAbbo

tw0nk wrote: »

thanks for reply zabbo, Ive been using usenet with giganews for 3 years now and always used a combination of nzbsrus and binsearch.info, is newzbin.com much better than these? is it so much better that it is worth paying for? thanks in advance, and if your reply is favourable to the questions I asked I will pm you for an invite if thats ok, thanks again.

Yup it is, and I've used both them.

You can grab 2 months of newzbin for £2.40 as a tester, a 12 month account is only around £15, but most people wait until December, as they always do a half price sale then.

You can also use something like this web interface to organise movies/tv from newzbin - http://irc.newzbin.com/~fatfecker/

Shanegggg

Seriously thinking of making the convert from torrents to this.

Just wanted to know how easy is it to spot all the major releases (ie dvd-rips/tv eps), as appose to a nice list when looking at torrents? I know i'd have to use newbin or something like it but like being able to see the most popular torrented stuff is always handy!

Used an usenet free trial before and thought it was fast but jst real messy trying to get all the parts for the file!

PowerHouseDan

Newzbin is handy with part files one click and thats that no need to work about downloading different parts or even better you can just bookmark it on newzbin and sabnzb will auto add it and download it.I used to Work torrents for X264 but now i am with Upc and they torrent uploads it was near impossible to keep a good ratio.

FredH3as

I have a funny feeling...what with talk of download dvd rips an that.....

PowerHouseDan

Usenet is now illegal, but ya guys this is a Bargains alert so keep the talk to illegal download to nil.Don't want Boards to get in trouble

joolsveer

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

Usenet is now illegal

I wasn't aware that usenet was illegal - since when? Can you provide a link?

FredH3as

joolsveer wrote: »

I wasn't aware that usenet was illegal - since when? Can you provide a link?

Here is a link!

kazzer

Fred, stop wrecking the thread with your crap.

Col_Loki

I wasn't aware that usenet was illegal - since when? Can you provide a link?

Pretty sure that was a typo. Maybe supposed to read "Usenet is not illegal, but....."

PS Thanks for the info pretty good deal.

Basq

FredH3as wrote: »

Here is a link!

FredH3as,

It was a genuine question.. no need for that!

Unless you've something worthwhile to contribute, don't bother!

PS - I'll be watching this thread very closely.. as it's skating a fine line!

PowerHouseDan

That was ment to say not illegal

corkproducers

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

Rapidshare has a limit of 2.6gig per day though doesn't it? that's crap to be honest....

Ya that limit they brought in is crap alright,

but for people who know they wont downloading that much per day, they'll get a better deal since its only 7 euro a month.


So can anyone tell me who used both, how does usenet compare to rapidshare?

Which can you get more stuff on?

I've found rapidshare to have the most out of all the file hosting sites,
if usenet beats it, then thats a great achievement.

DingDong

xlned.com is another cheap provider. Never used them but it you fancy giving them a shot they have prices from 2.21 euros a month
Link

The Muppet

Great Offer, I moved from Giganews to astraweb last jan and the only down side is/was the retention was lower on astraweb, Astraweb are making good progress with this. No difference in speed between both for me , both max out my connection but astraweb have free ssl which is a nice bonus.

Usenet has been around for years, i've been using it since 1995. You can find lots of information on Google if want to find out more.

BaconZombie

Usenet is plain text and is no more illegal then any other random set of ascii.
You are braking copyright law every time you use HTTP/S since you are download copyrighted pictures and other items almost every time you visit any site.

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

Usenet is now illegal, but ya guys this is a Bargains alert so keep the talk to illegal download to nil.Don't want Boards to get in trouble

Fighting Irish

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

Usenet is now illegal, but ya guys this is a Bargains alert so keep the talk to illegal download to nil.Don't want Boards to get in trouble

wtf lol

AlmightyCushion

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Usenet is plain text and is no more illegal then any other random set of ascii.
You are braking copyright law every time you use HTTP/S since you are download copyrighted pictures and other items almost every time you visit any site.

Fighting Irish wrote: »

wtf lol

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

That was ment to say not illegal

It was a typo.

PowerHouseDan

Lads if ye actually read my post after than i said i made a typo i ment to say NOT illegal.

Maboza

Usenet is illegal now! wtf.