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Author Torrents - newsgroups
Dan Lewis
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Leicestershire
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24th Nov 07 at 11:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i have allways used torrents and some times you get the bad ones or hard to find a file.

but yesterday i started using newsgroups at 5 last night and allready i've downloaded 14.5GB of stuff maxing out my connection 100% but it wont slow anything else down.

so i wouod reccommend newsgroups to anyone

4meg broadband getting 500kb/s soon be upgraded to a 8meg service

average downspeed pf 420kb/s

and it peeked at 1mb in the night





[Edited on 24-11-2007 by Dan Lewis]
sponj
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Registered: 26th Jun 07
Location: Perceton, North Ayrshire
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24th Nov 07 at 11:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i was considering this but couldnt find any good newsgroups... u2u?
Doug
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24th Nov 07 at 11:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I dont understand newsgroups. I tried them once but couldn't understand them.

If anyone cares to explain them to me I will be more than happy to listen

Just never something that I tried hard to use lol
Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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8th Dec 07 at 09:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Wouldn't mind knowing the address mate.
Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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8th Dec 07 at 13:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

^^ ditto doug lol
gooner_47
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Location: Bexhill/Croydon
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8th Dec 07 at 13:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by sponj
i was considering this but couldnt find any good newsgroups... u2u?


Use Newsleecher, their Supersearch service works just like any normal search, scans headers in a massive list of newsgroups and finds you what you need
amxor
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Registered: 12th May 05
Location: Rochester
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8th Dec 07 at 15:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

otherwise, you can use newzbin.com and search for what you need, and it will create a NZB file to queue up what you want to downloan.
amxor
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Location: Rochester
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8th Dec 07 at 15:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

giganews is supposedly the best news provider, but i'm currently using newsdemon.com and they seem to be good.
Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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12th Dec 07 at 08:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

do you have to pay a subscription for all of the above newsgroups?
Dan Lewis
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Location: Leicestershire
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12th Dec 07 at 11:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

your isp will provide a free one, search there homepage for there isp.

if something is very old then thats when you have to pay.
Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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22nd Dec 07 at 22:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ive managed to connect to my isp's newsgroup, but after registering with newzbin and such like they're still asking me to pay in order to download the nzb file

anyway around this?
Dan Lewis
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22nd Dec 07 at 22:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

you using grabit?

go to newzbin search for the file if the file is new you'll have no problem downloading. click the file to bring the info up. and you'll get a file name that ends in .nfo

copy and paste that into binsearch and you can create the nzb from there
Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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22nd Dec 07 at 22:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ok, ive downloaded grabit, logged on using my isp details.
Ive listed a trillion groups but not subscribed to any. should i do this first?

And im not sure where binshearch is?
Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Status: Happy
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22nd Dec 07 at 22:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I've banged on about how newsgroups are so much better than torrents but not many people have listened, a few use NG's on here though.

Newsbin.com I hear is a good indexxing site, along with Merlins Portal.....
So I hear....

Oh and Newshosting is THE best provider out there as it's by far the most reliable, Giganews is hit and miss, so I'm told.....
James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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22nd Dec 07 at 23:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I use Easynews, I've used it for about 4 years if not longer and it's gone from strength to strength and I've NEVER had a problem with it. The fact you don't even need to use anything but a web browser makes it brilliant for when I was on a uni connection with all other ports blocked.
Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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23rd Dec 07 at 00:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

^^ but thats subscription? I still cant see myself paying for what i can get for free?

ive just downloaded I am legend in the space of about 9 minutes on torrent.
gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
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23rd Dec 07 at 01:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Jules
I've banged on about how newsgroups are so much better than torrents but not many people have listened, a few use NG's on here though.

Newsbin.com I hear is a good indexxing site, along with Merlins Portal.....
So I hear....

Oh and Newshosting is THE best provider out there as it's by far the most reliable, Giganews is hit and miss, so I'm told.....


Newshosting gets another vote from me
John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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23rd Dec 07 at 01:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

If you need to pay any money at all for newsgroups I don't know how they are better

I can get torrents as fast as my connection allows.
James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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23rd Dec 07 at 01:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by John
If you need to pay any money at all for newsgroups I don't know how they are better

I can get torrents as fast as my connection allows.

Because there's plenty of stuff that isn't on a torrent, or has been out a while so that a lot of the seeders have finished so it downloads slowly. Being able to use it at Uni with blocked ports was handy, too. I still use torrents as well as Usenet, but for what works out as £6 a month, which I'd only blow down the pub otherwise, I like having the option.
Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
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23rd Dec 07 at 02:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by John
If you need to pay any money at all for newsgroups I don't know how they are better

I can get torrents as fast as my connection allows.


Because the costs are minimal, the speeds are as fast as your connection can go, it's stable, it doesn't require you to share anything, there's no chance of them being taken down tomorrow and then not being able to sign up to another one as it's "closed for new members without an invite"

It costs around £7 / month from what I hear, which tbf, is fuck all.

Just off the top of my head.
John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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23rd Dec 07 at 02:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

If I wanted to pay i'd go and buy the real things, torrents I download go as fast as my connection does as well.
Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Status: Happy
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23rd Dec 07 at 20:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by John
If I wanted to pay i'd go and buy the real things, torrents I download go as fast as my connection does as well.


For £7 you can get as many dvd/games/albums as you like?
I wish I knew where you shopped
MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
Location: Liverpool
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23rd Dec 07 at 22:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I have banged on about newsgroups for ages too...


 
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