Typically these sell out very quickly each year, leaving just a $6.99 option available (which is still a decent price).
FWIW, they have up to 1932 days retention. In general I haven't found anything that they didn't have (except for extremely high profile stuff that gets DMCA'd everywhere).
Yep. FWIW, I've been with them for over a year now, and haven't had any problems (very reliable and very fast), and very few DMCAs to deal with. I was on the $6.99 plan though, so I've just signed up a new account at $4.99 :)
Highwinds, bummer. Completion on older posts is bad. Need a block account to go with it.
Bought. Thanks!
Awesome, same price I'm paying for frugal which only has 300 days retention.
Nice one cheers, good for a backup server.
what do you use for your primary?
Usenetserver.com
these guys starting messing with my speeds once i hit over 1tb in a month
i complained and they denied shaping me and were glad to offer a refund and a cancellation of my service
You sure it wasn't your ISP shaping the port for you? Still, offering a refund and cancelling the service is pretty good of them given they say it wasn't them.
Besides, exactly why do you need to download 1TB per month?? Even sitting in your chair 16 hours a day I doubt you'd get through watching that much porn…
I dont download 1TB a month but I download 3d iso - they are around 50gb a pop.
Nice… i imagine you must have a nice NAS set up!
You mean you download copies of your legally acquired blu rays or are you pirating that stuff?
Go back to america…perhaps they don't conduct spying there
actually i dont. i built a htpc for my tv and loaded up with drives along with a hot swap external HDD bays
downloading movies released on the creative commons of course :)
After all the big studios deserve every cent they wring out consumers on behalf of the hard working performers so the artists can get their 1%
Its funny how artists who release on the creative commons or similar can make more out of merch and performances than they can on a big label from sales.
yes i am sure since i joined another provider that same day and problem was fixed
tpg have never shaped and i nearly hit 2tb before
can someone else on thundernews $5 unlimited confirm they can downloaded
over 1tb with no issues
if not no need to neg my comment which would be useful to some of us
FWIW, I didn't neg your comment.
I didn't mean you specifically I was directing that part at the real negger
Whom ever it was and I didn't neg you either
"Even sitting in your chair 16 hours a day I doubt you'd get through watching that much porn…"
Challenge accepted!
Boxes of tissues are only 95c at Aldi, suggest you go obtain a few.
did the same thing to me with last black friday sale, cancelled it almost straight away!
On 27 April 2012 03:19, ThunderNews.com Support <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi ShinjukuJR,
We only control what happens on our network and other conditions may affect your speed. Have you tried using the alternate ports or servers?
Thanks,
-Steve
Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: CNZ-316541
Department: Existing Customer - 502 Errors or Connection Problems
Priority: Critical
Status: Closed
REPLY:
ShinjukuJR to support
Hi Steven,
Like the retarded chat I've had with your offshore reps for the past few days, I've tried all servers and all ports and i'm capped at 400KB/sec. This isn't uncommon as it seems like this occurs a lot on your network as per the google searches. Not sure how you can close my case, being that you haven't resolved anything at all? Astraweb, etc all work FINE. speedtest.net FINE! using another thundernews login on my same PC works full speed!
what does that tell your genius brain?
they cancelled my account after this saying they couldn't provide further help.
Was this after a certain amount of data per month or did it appear they capped you permanently?
1TB in a month, that is some good downloading!
He likes to keep abreast of all of the world's developments.
Thanks James Bond
thx op
So long Supernews, hello Thundernews!
thanks op bought one.
could someone recommend free usenet client and search engine. new to this.
first rule of usenet is u do not talk about usenet
search engine: binsearch.info
client: alt.binz
Thundernews say they give you one free; cf their FAQs, maybe. Dunno if it's any good… NewsRover?
Usenet? Isn't that pre-myspace?
It is pre-myspace, but usenet is still here. I haven't heard much from myspace since.
It was created before myspace but recently everyone has become VERY interested in news. :P
guys is it worth getting this for a 5 mb adsl connection?
it will max your connection.
you wont get better speeds from P2P
thanks, moving from astraweb cos DMCA is almost instant now.
Being a Highwinds reseller it's going to be even worse. Get an EU block account as a fill server. I use Astraweb through Node and haven't had a problem with them in ages, it was getting bad there for a while but hasn't for 6+ months now.
What does usenet actually do, or allow me to do?
What does usenet actually do, or allow me to do?
Google, and other search engines, allow you to find out.
The short answer is, read news or download things.
What sort of things? Well let's just say things that you might find useful.
whats the difference between this and the ozbargain posted earlier today newgroupnet
This deal is the same service but half the price of the other, therefore get this deal instead.
Currently on a $5/month unlimited plan with Newsdemon. Would this place be any different/better? Thanks.
Much of a muchness.. they're both highwinds reseller services so you'd get the same content/deletions..
Ah alrighty. Cheers.
It's 1 cent cheaper per month. :D
alright guys, just installed sabnzbd and set it up.
now how to find nzb files ?
thanks.
register with nzb.su/index.php or nzbgeek
nzb.su is closed at the moment right?
Is nzbgeek the next best (and worth the massive $1/mth fee?)
i have a spare invite for nzb.su.
gimme your email. i will give it to you.
I paid $10 once off for nzbgeek. I only use nzbgeek these days. the site is slow but no passworded files get through.
is nzbgeek open for registration, or is it invite only?
PM'd
Anyone care to send me an invite to nzbgeek please.
I have been trying for a while to get one. Seems like people are selling them rather than giving them out. Or they swap them for other sites like nzb.su
can anyone tell me whats the use of usenet…please pm if its not appropriate to discuss in publick
can anyone tell me whats the use of usenet…please pm if its not appropriate to discuss in publick
Google, and other search engines, allow you to find out.
When you were entering your username, did you mispel unhelpful?
did you mispel unhelpful?
What is this "mispel" that you speak of?
The same thing you'd use torrents for, it's a different method of getting the same things.
With Usenet you connect to a company that you pay money to. That means always maxing out your internet connection and no uploading required.
Sadly Usenet got discussed in public too much.
sharing is caring!
The extra learning curve kept out the masses until popularity-hunting authors had to start writing about it. It's not dead yet but it's taken more wounds in the last year than the last 20 years combined.
Switched from Usenet to private tracker torrenting 2 years ago
Haven't looked back. No more missing or damaged files. There is a surprising amount of rare and obscure material available through torrents nowadays. Use rssfeeds for 0day release automation
tell me more?
Private trackers require an invite.
Private trackers can require a certain seed ratio at times which is hard to meet with copper cables. (ADSL)
seedbox ftw.
That works but you have to have a good FTP connection with the box.
I haven't experienced uncompleted nzbs for quite some time. Use sickbeard and couchpotato to grab things as they come available. Means I avoid DCMA takedowns. Highwinds resellers tend to take things down quicker. Torrents are always a backup for older stuff.
Never used a private tracker before but that's because it's just about impossible to get an invite. They usually require an minimum amount of uploads not something I can afford on my plan. Still think they are very useful but unlikely to ever be invited
I currently have Easynews and found as of recently with my Optus Cable its been terribly slow, I was considering changing Usenet services, but want to make sure its not optus with regards to usenet in general….
If your speed issues are congestion related the it might be no better. Congestion issues are different node to node making it impossible to predict the result. I've just joined and it maxed out my cable at 99.5mbit but I bet that changes later on.
For $4.99, I say grab it while you can and if it's shyte for you, cancel.
Yeah I get 99.5 using speedtest.net, but when it comes to usenet, streaming, p2p its woeful, worse than I had with iinet before I moved house.
I'm talking about 99.5 mbit from Thundernews, the optus speed test is next to useless unless optus start hosting the entirety of the internet :)
Which server from thundernews are you using? also SSL?
Anyone who buys Easynews is just consenting to being ripped off. The only thing you get is a web interface that is noob friendly. If you know what you're doing, you don't need to use it, and any other provider will get you the same service.
Change it.
Pause your easynews in your downloader and try a trail account like tweaknews. See if your speed changes
binsearch.info is pretty annoying because it seems a large majority of files are passworded and linked to surveys. Anyone know how to avoid these types of files now that the matrix is gone?
It usually tells you if a post is passworded or not, I think?
Or maybe that's the other indexer I use.
If not, use a bit of common sense and you can spot these.
As a rule, if you find the .rar file missing, but the .r00, .r01, etc are all there, it's fake.
Also avoid anything that ends in .part001.rar, .part002.rar, etc.
Go for the .rar, .r00, .r01, or .001, .002, .003. If it's .part001.rar it has been repacked, possibly passworded.
go on nzbgeek. you will never encounter another password file
decided to sign up even though I have an old block account somewhere that isnt empty yet..
nzbgeek the best option for search/indexing and sickbeard etc?
wanted to use usenet a while ago, but did some research on the resources… decided not to waste my money.
The amount of resources is just not enough for a person that is so used to torrent like me…
Bugger Sold OUT missed this one.
Bah!
Sold out.. :(
What is the best nzb site?
awesome, thanks for the reminder.
I managed to upgrade it to $4.99 just before it SOLD OUT.
I missed out last year but managed to jump on $7.99 so this is a nice saving.
$6.99 is still available which is a good price.
Newshosting.com is also doing a $59.95 deal 1932 days retention as well 30 connections with ssl. If you are already a current customer you can ask if you can pre buy another years subscription to your current one so they can just tack on another 12 months to the end of your current subscription
is it actually sold out? seems the 4.99 is still available??
Yeah I signed up for the 4.99 after the comments about it being sold out.
Yeah I download legally acquired blu ray copies from Usenet….
The $5 Unlimited plan is still available. I just signed up 1 minute ago.
I generall ys http://www.nzbclub.com/ to find 'Linux distributions' I am interested in.
https://www.binsearch.info/ is another one that I use as a backup. If you have a paid Alt.binz client you can use that search engine from within the program. Search functionality is disable in the free client.
http://www.altbinz.net/
Damn , I signed up for $6.99. Then the $4.99 came back available. Will get them to cancel the $6.99 account
If you cancel you won't get any of your money back for the month. I just got billed 2 days ago :( I would share the other account but only to people I trust since your login has credit card details attached.
Sold out again!
Thanks op, I cancelled my astraweb for this.
Available again, seems they can't make up their mind. When I checked before, the top 3 offers were marked as sold out and they're all back.
I cancelled this at the start of the month after having it for 12 months as I use Dutch servers as my primary and I have another Highwinds server block as a backup.
this is a sweet deal. who said 50 connections doesn't make a difference
Great deal. FYI Part of the highwinds group.