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 Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 01:48 Post subject: Which newsgroup program is recommended? |
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I am getting tired of the IRC way of downloading. I have read about newsgroups and how easy/quick it is to get new files.
What do you guys recommend? I have read up about usenet, usenext...but not sure which one is good.
I don't want to spend a lot of $ since IRC is free. I also don't need to d/l a lot of gigs. Usually just games....other things IRC works fine.
Any recommendations?
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 04:11 Post subject: |
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Not sure...but I keep getting kicked by blackmarket. I guess they don't allow use of Klipper. Never knew...but got kicked anyway. Problem is blackmarket ususally has the most updated games.
That's why I need to look at newsgroups.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 06:15 Post subject: |
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Well, I am just about ready to take the plunge.
One question: All I have to do is sign up with one of the newsgroup readers? Like Giganews? I don't have to d/l anything else?
Do you d/l just like a torrent program?
Before I spend the $, I want to make sure its worth it.
Is it easy to find the newest games? Is there a search engine like IRC?
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I kind of prefer usenetserver.com
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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nouseforaname
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actually yeah, you should try the 3 days for $3 @ usenetserver.com if you want to try it out first...
https://accounts.usenetserver.com/register/index.php?rate=29&lang=en
basically you need to
1) sign up for service
2) download a client (newsleecher, grabit, etc), these can open and download the contents of .nzb files
3) get nzb files which are basically like .torrent files
you can either use a pure search engine like http://binsearch.info/ or one of many indexing sites... http://www.google.ca/search?q=nzb+indexing
pretty much everything ever released to the internet is on usenet.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 06:37 Post subject: |
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Ok. I need just a little help. I signed up for the 3 day pass. I am registered. I also d/l grabit.
Now what? How does Grabit access the usernet servers? What do I have to do to set up?
sorry for the questions...but I can't figure this out
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 07:28 Post subject: |
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in grabit you should be able to right click on 'default server' in the left side navigation pane and select 'server properties'. the host name should be something like news.usenetserver.com and you can enter the login and password for your account.
then go to binsearch.info and search for something and it will create a .nzb file that will tell grabit what files you want (same as a .torrent tells utorrent what to do). in grabit preferences you can also tell it to extract and fix files automatically, and you should let it do this.
also google .nzb file and .nzb indexer, that should answer some more questions.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 08:34 Post subject: |
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I use alt binz here, nothings better
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | I use alt binz here, nothings better |
+1!
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Saner
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 09:44 Post subject: |
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you can get astraweb for 11$ pcm nouseforaname, its not a big difference but every little add's up ( http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html )
Anyways for programs sabnzbdplus, multi platform and does it all for you
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ? |
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 14:50 Post subject: |
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Thanks...finally got it working with newsleecher.
Last question: once I d/l all the files...do I just run winrar? Or do I need another program to combine all of the files together. They look like rars...but not sure.
Thanks
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 16:02 Post subject: |
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You could just unrar them but sometimes the files contain errors which is frustrating. Get a program called Quickpar. It can check the files for errors and determine if you need to download any par files to repair the rars. Ofcourse most programs like grabit and newsleecher already have the functionality of quickpar built in. They can even check downloaded rars for errors and if necessary get par files, repair and extract the rar files automatically.
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WaldoJ
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newsleecher is awesome. does it all. repairs. extracts. deletes.
shame no osx version available.
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@WaldoJ I think you can use it with a VM-type app no? I know some Linux people use it that way (WINE), so I bet you can do something similar on X.
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Oct 2010 08:09 Post subject: |
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Weird but true: I get the highest DL speed with Newsleecher. Grabti, Unzbin, etc. give me lower DL speeds.
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Oct 2010 11:54 Post subject: |
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| aeonfast wrote: | | Weird but true: I get the highest DL speed with Newsleecher. Grabti, Unzbin, etc. give me lower DL speeds. |
I had that same issue with grabit, was only using 1/4 of my internet speed no matter what I did. |
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Newsbin Pro for me. Never had a days problem with it and I've been using it for over 6 years now.
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SABNZBD+ and either SabTab for Newzbin or nzbStatus for nzbmatrix.com - you click on a report and then it auto downloads, pars, extracts and tidies up the name.
Nothing better out there
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@Nittany, you should really use the search function because there are like 10+ topics on the subject with likely more information than you'll end up with here 
