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).
Nope, I get far better speeds on 50 connections than 20 and that's on my congested telstra adsl connection.
OK.
But I don't. So I guess YMMV.
If you read FAQs on most Usenet providers, they actually recommend you don't use all the connection available and stick to 10. I use 20, but I haven't noticed any speed difference between 10, 20, or 50. They all max out my connection speed.
Maybe you've capped the speed of each connection in your client to something low?
Been with them for over a year, never had an issue - always download at max bandwidth 2.2mb/s and I'm a heavy user. For this price it's definitely worth signing up, if they end up not being to your liking then you can cancel, nothing to lose.
Same here. I don't download a TB a month, but certainly over 100GB a month, and have done so every month for over a year. I'm still able to max out my connection speed.
I don't see what the big deal is anyway, it's not a contract with a fixed length. Just sign up for $5/month, and if they throttle you then cancel and either sign up again or sign up with someone else.
Thanks op! It has been a long time since I've touched usenet, since nzbmatrix went down. Got to dust of sabnzb. It's like being reunited with an old friend.
So nzbgeek good? Am buying a subscription since it was mentioned above.
nzbgeek is good, I used to occasionally use it when it was free, but I have a VIP account at omgwtfnzbs.org and it's pretty good. Without VIP you can still download 5 nzb's per day I think.
Just trying out nzbgeek now, am liking. Wanting a omgwtfnzbs VIP but they're only taking payments in bitcoins, which I currently don't have accses to. So there is a use for bitcoins afterall =/
There should be an option to use PayPal, they added it recently and it's how I got my VIP account.
so is it worth it omgwtfnzbs.org?
its good, but the site is a little bit slow.
they do have a nice usable interface.
I had crap speeds on this when I had it a couple of months ago.
Other providers did not give me crap speeds ;)
Think I got about 2MB/s, whereas I would get 8-10MB/s on other providers.
I get 2mb/s from this too, I think its capped at that speed.
so the deal is, smash it like no tomorrow and see if you get throttled?? i'm up for it
I have been averaging 7-8MB/s with thundernews.
I've been using them for years now and there services have been great overall.
How much data a month you pulling down through them?
I hit 3tb in the third week before they permanently shaped my account. look it up on WP and various internet forums around the world. Its a known fact they shape heavy users and then refund them to make them go away.
I guess like most services it's not true "unlimited"
But if they kept all heavy users they probably would take a beating with there speeds and it wouldn't be cost efficient to upgrade.
Is it physically possible to watch 3TB in 3 weeks, or do you spend $5/month on Usenet access, $150/month on HDDs?
after years of being on throttled shaped, capped crappy internet and finally getting ADSL2+ unlimited you kind of want to give the internet a hiding for the first few months.
eventually you get bored and run out of things to get. one movie = 50gb though, so it doesnt take long
Seems like everything i throw at Thundernews is out of their retention, and downloads from my backup server. Anyone else having this problem?
I've downloaded a few very old things since joining this afternoon, all articles found and rocketed down.
just joined for the first time to any usenet acc. now the learning begins
Usenet is on its death bed. Dozens of P2P releases never make it or make it a week later. Even standard Scene packages are frequently late. Any general private tracker will get them first, no takedowns, no broken/missing articles, and eh, no need to mess around with .par files. Plus you are not reliant on a .nzb indexer. Then the obscure specialized stuff that some trackers specifically focus on, forget about it. A decent 100MB/s dedi seedbox and a few private trackers are way better for spending your time on. I've had that 100MB/s link seed back 500GB+ over 2 days 24/7. SFTP speeds are also flawless.
For the purposes of the first rule, I agree, I think usenet is dead too.
thats like me saying WWW is on its death bed.
POP3 is on its death bed.
Bit slow on the uptake, never mind.
how can 'the first rule of usenet be not to talk about usenet' when it was one of the first protocols of the internet
you sound like a jackass when you say that. it's not some super secret club, it's newsgroups. it's been around longer than you've been alive
Just because something is old doesn't mean everyone is cool with it when in the majority of cases it is used for piracy.
Go over to the NZBmatrix forums and tell them it's one of the first protocols on the internet and it's just newsgroups, so let's tell everyone now. We all know you can't.
I don't think you understand the philosophy. It's a secret club which everyone can join but not discuss in open forums. The reason is pretty obvious. You're free to do what you wish just like I'm free to sound like a jackass.
newsgroups majority purpose isn't piracy. never has been.
nzbmatrix was 100% piracy listings
Isnt the hardest part getting an invite to a private tracker? Which makes it difficult to move over to using them
will this allow me to use ipad to watch abc iveiw oversea?
No, you're thinking of a VPN.
I've been with TN for the last year on this plan and never cancelled as its the best going around….they certainly don't measure up to Astraweb, but for the price and access on usenet files they are pretty good. Never had any issues with shaping. Thanks for posting again+!
It's funny because a lot are still stuck in the dark ages and think P2P is their answer for file sharing ;)
Shoosh, let them be.
There are merits for both.
Takedowns are harder with P2P.
There are virtually no takedowns on private trackers period, especially those that are harder to get into.
Its funny that on a decent private tracker any new files are posted at close to the same time the Scene uploads them. Is Usenet zero hour? Far from it.
I think you'll find they're both the same in terms of availability speed. Different guys doing the same thing but just different transfer methods.
It is not sold out yet. Still available when using a smartphone. Just signed up using my iphone. Go for it! You have not missed out yet!
I just signed up via the website from my desktop.
Just bought it. Thanks Carbon Twelve
If you have super fast internet, it might. But for the rest of us 10 or 20 is already enough to max out your bandwidth.