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Usenet Deal 11Dollars

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    #2
    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    Ment to Add currently 210+ rentention with servers now able to handle 365 day.


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    #3
    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    That's a good deal, think I got on them on the back of one of your posts before.

    I'm on the 120gb once off deals myself. The link you have their would be good for sharing or for those with a phat pipes!


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    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    Yeah well i used to pay 15 dollars for 160 rentention, unlimited with 12 connections with no SSL (SSl usually adds on about 5 dollars) i am getting a solid 2.3mb download speed off them too with my 20mb connection


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    #5
    blobert
    Registered Users Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭blobert


    Have been using this since the Hitnews.eu €6 a month service increased in price, seems to be the cheapest out there, no problems with service either.


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    Bill-e
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Bill-e


    What's it for ?


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    #7
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    I don't know much about usenet so maybe this is stoopid question but... why not just use normal torrents?


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    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    If you knew more about Usenet you would understand why.


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    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    Advantages Usenet over Torrents:

    Full Speed
    No Ratio
    More Selection
    Has SSL

    Cons
    You have to pay for it 8 euro a month well spent.


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    The Sparrow
    Registered Users Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭The Sparrow


    PowerHouseDan wrote: »
    Advantages Usenet over Torrents:

    Full Speed
    No Ratio
    More Selection
    Has SSL

    Cons
    You have to pay for it 8 euro a month well spent.

    Ok so it is better than torrents. But what about a premium Rapidshare account?? is this better and if so how?


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    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    I dont use rapidshare but i would imagine there is ALOT more Usenet content + Usenet is great for x264.


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    tw0nk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭tw0nk


    I am currently a giganews user, but those prices beat giganews, how would astraweb compare? Also how long do you reckon the offer will stand?


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    #13
    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    My friend moved form giga to astra and he find it no diff apart from the price and get more for the price.


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    Bill-e
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Bill-e


    Well I'm with Rapidshare and it's really whips the lamas ass. Never got into the Usenet scene. Used IRC back in the day then torrents for a while but Rapidshare is so fast! I brought down 13gbs yday :D


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    Vic Vinegar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    Bill-e wrote: »
    Well I'm with Rapidshare and it's really whips the lamas ass. Never got into the Usenet scene. Used IRC back in the day then torrents for a while but Rapidshare is so fast! I brought down 13gbs yday :D

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


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    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    80gb a month = fail


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    #17
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    Maybe my ISP is good or maybe I'm just happy with a 2mb line... after the first mins I stay more or less at 200kb/s -

    Either way... it's good enough for me.

    Might be a good thing for Eircom customers tho


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    bazual
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭bazual


    Switched from giganews to astraweb last week, $30 down to $11 dollars beig difference in price. mentioned to giga that I was going with astra instead thinking they might do a setanta or sky on it and reduce the price down but nothing so went to astraweb.
    Have not noticed any difference so far, its great value.
    Also have a basic easynews account for the web search functionality which is one thing that usenet readers are not great at plus easynews has a zipmanager and autopar/autounrar, so worth checking them out for that feature but pricewise astra is def the best I have used.

    B~


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    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,831 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I prefer block accounts rather than those with a monthly subscription.


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    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    PowerHouseDan wrote: »
    AstraWeb at the moment have a savage offer 11 dollars a Month for Newshosting usenet access, Unlimited Downloads,No Download Limits 20 Connections and Also incl SSL.

    The Offer ended last nite however you can still sign up with this linnk:

    http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html?gclid=CMHL1dyRppkCFQiF3godCmbFpA
    Nice one. I was only considering this site the other day, so I've delved in now at that good price. Works out under €9 atm.

    Thanks.


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    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    PowerHouseDan wrote: »
    I dont use rapidshare but i would imagine there is ALOT more Usenet content + Usenet is great for x264.

    I use both and without a doubt

    RS premium > Usenet > Torrents


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    Funkyzeit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Funkyzeit


    Hi Folks
    I'm with usenetserver.com and they only offer 10 connections - I assume 20 connections with astraweb does not mean I'll get double the d/l speed?

    They only have 120 days aswell so I may indeed change thanks op


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    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    No you would just get a more Solid Speed.


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    carbsy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭carbsy


    Funkyzeit wrote: »
    Hi Folks
    I'm with usenetserver.com and they only offer 10 connections - I assume 20 connections with astraweb does not mean I'll get double the d/l speed?

    They only have 120 days aswell so I may indeed change thanks op

    It's actually 125 days and there is a 20 connections option. :)


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    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    I've had most of the services at one stage or another (easynews/thundernews/giganews etc.) but Astro has been very solid and the retention is brilliant.

    Usenet & Newzbin & SABnzbd+ are great, and having used RS & Torrents - it's not really comparable.


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    BigEejit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    I was seriously thinking of going for Giganews in the middle of last year, when lo and behold Virgin media started their own news server and although it only has 7 days retention of binaries I get full speed on my cable broadband because I believe the server is on-network :D

    If they ever get rid of the binaries I will most likely though be looking into astraweb ;)


    /edit
    Oh and second vote for SABnzbd+, I use nzbsrus though (they recently upgraded their server(s) and its nice and quick now)


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    karltimber
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 1,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭karltimber


    Hi,
    signed up for this for the first time last night.

    am I meant to receive a username password port email from them ?

    K


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    kaisersose77
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭kaisersose77


    try this http://www.news.astraweb.com/forgotpass.html

    and use the email address u signed up with





    Giganews are fecked unless they lower there prices dramatically. They announced 365 day retention but astraweb have done the same.


    Sabnzbd is brilliant. You could set up rss feeds so it downloads stuff automatically. You can pick where you want certain types of files to be saved. It automatically unrars files. It can send you emails when it downloads a file. Can even search stuff on my iphone and get it to download on my pc. Would never recommend rapidshare/torrents over this to anybody. Rapidshare links die after a while so dont know how anyone could say its better than usenet. And you are going to struggle to find stuff from a few weeks ago never mind a few months ago.


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    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    zAbbo wrote: »
    I've had most of the services at one stage or another (easynews/thundernews/giganews etc.) but Astro has been very solid and the retention is brilliant.

    Usenet & Newzbin & SABnzbd+ are great, and having used RS & Torrents - it's not really comparable.


    Have to second this combo - sabnzbd+ in particular is absolutely savage!


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    FrankGrimes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭FrankGrimes


    Thanks for this tip OP -made the transition to Astraweb from Usenet-News so it should save me a few quid each month and nice to finally get round to getting SSL setup.

    I use GrabIt as my client but have installed SABnzbd based on the tip off here but I'm not seeing what's its clear advantages over GrabIt are (though admittedly I've just installed it) - what should I be looking for?

    I added my Newzbin account details into the config section in SABnzbd - is it something to do with Newzbin functionality that sets SABnzbd apart?


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    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    I use Sabnzb cos its the only good Mac Nzb Client, Newzbin + Sabnzb is great , bookmarker files and it auto adds is a great feature, been using Sab now for about 6 months and only wish it would support torrents so i could change over to it. Newzbin is a must really when it comes to usenet.


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