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Mutantius
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 05:27    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
now you can get some use out of that month of newzbin.com you have Wink

I'd recommend using NewsLeecher to load the nzb files into.


Already using it Wink



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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 06:10    Post subject:
Enjoy the GTA Wink

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Accelleron




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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 12:56    Post subject:
hummina hummina...

It turns out my ISP's news provider supports 2 connections. At ~65kb/s each, I'm getting a reliable 120kb/s. Free. That's as much as mutantius gets with giganews Razz
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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 16:05    Post subject:
do you get ~50 days retention? do you know who your ISPs news provider is? In Canada (Rogers cable) it's outsourced giganews.

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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 16:22    Post subject:
BBB no longer provides usenet :/
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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 16:24    Post subject:
my isp used to host it's own usenet servers, which were shitty as fuck (like ~2-3 days retention and maybe 70% completion). I'm glad they gave up and decided to hire someone else to do the job Very Happy

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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 16:43    Post subject:
my ISP's news retention isnt too bad, i think its 10 days not entirely sure. i get max speeds though Smile. shame some decent groups aren't included but i'm not gonna pay for stuff like that. paying a company to download is just as bad as buying pirated stuff Smile

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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 17:09    Post subject:
well ... usenet isn't entirely about binaries. paying for premium usenet access also get's you extremely long retention times in the text based groups.

I've found these to be pretty helpful at times, and there are groups on virtually every topic.

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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 17:16    Post subject:
Aww you guys...

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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 17:18    Post subject:
why blur the filename? gay pron methinks ... Very Happy

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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 17:23    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
why blur the filename? gay pron methinks ... Very Happy


One can only guess Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 18:32    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
why blur the filename? gay pron methinks ... Very Happy


Nah, Razz anyway I signed up at Giganews though was there are better alternative?

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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 18:45    Post subject:
Mutantius wrote:
nouseforaname wrote:
why blur the filename? gay pron methinks ... Very Happy


Nah, Razz anyway I signed up at Giganews though was there are better alternative?


I think he meant MY pic Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 19:08    Post subject:
Mutantius wrote:
nouseforaname wrote:
why blur the filename? gay pron methinks ... Very Happy


Nah, Razz anyway I signed up at Giganews though was there are better alternative?


Giganews is the best ... I'd say by far. But it's also not the cheapest.

I use my speed capped giganews for old stuff (25-50 days old) and I have an unlimited newshosting.com account for newer stuff (they have 24 day retention).

The price is quite different though: giganews unlimited is 25 bucks, newshosting is 15 bucks.

Stay away from anyone else -- they're simply not as good.

I also read on giganews' website that they outsource for 5 million Adelphia cable customers in the US, so if you have Adelphia, you're getting free access too! Very Happy

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nouseforaname
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 19:10    Post subject:
I forgot to mention, that giganews has a free 3 day trial (max 1 GB transfer) if anyone wants to check it out risk free!

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Mutantius
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PostPosted: Mon, 13th Jun 2005 21:52    Post subject:
thx for the advice NUFAN, yeah I noticed the trial though I was desperate to get GTA SA and well 1 gb wasnt enough Smile

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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 21st Jun 2005 19:12    Post subject:
giganews is damn expensive
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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Jun 2005 23:49    Post subject:
kenny64 wrote:
giganews is damn expensive


It'll pay off in the long run. Wink

I've been using them for 5yrs. Way before they even had unlimited Download accounts (Power Users). Before that I had newsfeeds and they
were not as good as giganews.

No problems for complaints here.
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Accelleron




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PostPosted: Thu, 23rd Jun 2005 06:59    Post subject:
While I would probably not pay to use it, I love the inefficiency of newsgroups. It makes the system bulletproof.

Allow me to explain: While the individual files come through only 95-97% complete (taking the whole set as a statistic, some files may be at 100%, others at 75%) on my server (free ISP server, 120kbps @ 2 channels), there are PAR2 files that fix small inefficiencies (a few rogue %), and for larger problems (like 8/111 posts missing thanks to the farking idiot of a poster) I usually find a repost with those 8 files available to some extent. Thus, you can almost always (never failed me yet) get the file you want with a speed greater than BitTorrent and more reliability than IRC can hope to provide.

If you don't have private access, I'd say that your ISP's news server is the best alternative (unless the server is shit; then you're pretty much fucked.)
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