Astraweb Usenet Unlimited/456 days retention/20 connection

[iLLNESS]

most newsgroups will max out your connection
and yes theres full movies and stuff
grab a newzgroup account, download newsbin pro, and find some NZBs to load into newsbin to download.
also download quickpar.
after stuff is downloaded run the .par2 file in quickpar to see if its damaged and needs repair.. if it does find the par files in the nzb and download them if theyre not already and bam shell be fixed.

on a side note, ive been a member of digigroups and cant complain.. they dont auto renew your service thye just send an invoice.. but thing is, if you dont pay you still get service for a while (dono how long but i just noticed my service is expired but it still works for a month now)

so im making the switch to this offer. i seen it somewhere else before but didnt want it but im tinking the retention is better then digigroups and its a few bucks cheaper a month with more connections.
digigroups is $40/3month with 16 connections i think, but they only guarantee 30day retention (ive got around 100day retention with them before)

200 day retention would be killer!

[chadw01]

is their site down?

I was having problems connecting to astraweb last night - turns out the DNS servers I was using (Verizon's 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 servers) were not for some reason resolving astraweb..

I then switched over to the OpenDNS servers at 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.. bingo, they resolved the Astra domain no problem.

Wierd.. I guess I could have also tried my ISP's DNS servers, but I'm fine with OpenDNS.

HTH

[chadw01]

Oooo nice, dam usenetserver autorenewed and still have 2 more months, but I think I will still sign up with these guys.

Woah...was curious and looks like I signed up back in 2002 ... dam i feel old!

So I'll share my little setup I've tuned over the years.
Sabnzbd - newsgroup client/web interface/auto download, par, unrar, and categorize

I was talking about sabnzbd with someone yesterday and I hadn't heard of it before - I've been using Newsleecher for quite some time (too long I guess, since the version I use doesn't even support SSL), so it's time to either upgrade or look at sabnzbd.. I'll check it out.

Thanks!

[Rockstead]

what is considered to be the best newsgroup client? I've been using alt.binz.

[Gophermofur]

the user interface is far superior to any other indexing site and well worth it for $10. You can compare it to Merlins Portal which has lots of problems.

I suppose that's a personal preference. I think the interface is nice, but I don't consider it far superior to many of the other sites out there these days. Then again, I don't mind spending an extra 2-3 minutes searching multiple sites for what I want.

But I will concede that $10 is not much to pay for convenience if you do in fact feel their interface outclasses the competition.

[Goober56]

grab a newzgroup account, download newsbin pro, and find some NZBs to load into newsbin to download.
also download quickpar.
after stuff is downloaded run the .par2 file in quickpar to see if its damaged and needs repair.. if it does find the par files in the nzb and download them if theyre not already and bam shell be fixed.

Or go get Newsleecher and use the built in Supersearch feature. DL what you want while it Verifies and extracts your DLs.

[Menace]

+1

There're lots kiddies or "jerk" on RDF.

Yep - I will outright refuse any invites unless I personally know the person.

[slomo]

just curious...usenet/newsgroup....isn't there alot of spam/virii...

True that. Just be careful what you download. If you download just dvd movies and mp3's your chance of getting virus from them are practically zero since they are not executed, just data for an application to use. As a side note, some AV are now reporting heuristics hits on years old cracks. I just am not sure now how valid these hits are.

[Pseudo Nim]

EDIT: Please note that due to people flooding my inbox with demands for the invites, one threatening to call the police on me for piracy if I didn't send him one, another calling me a jerk for not sending him one, I'm not giving out the invites. The OP got one, and that's it.

Bwahaha, that is hilarious. People are amazing

[Pseudo Nim]

$10 / Lifetime is a lot cheaper than newzbin.com... I will have to give this site a second look when my newzbin sub runs out in December.

I.e. right around the time the next Christmas sale @ 80% off will happen, at which point people will say "enh, another $5 to last me a year, shrug might as well" and back to square 1 we go

[Pseudo Nim]

Can anybody comment on this compared to Giganews? I've been with GN for something like 6 years, but this is literally half price... would definitely not hurt.

Opinions appreciated.

[MrDisco]

just curious...usenet/newsgroup....isn't there alot of spam/virii...i don't think i've used this rarely during my online career...can u get full movies here? i mean no the rar files but FULL 1 file movies and its at 1MB/sec speeds?

"online career"??? LOL.

Spam and viruses can be found anywhere online; use your common sense and install the appropriate protection applications. The good thing is that the spam are just posted messages you can ignore/delete and create filters for.
Email has spam but that doesn't mean you're not going to use email right?

No it's highly unlikely you will see a full 4.7+GB movie posted as a single file. It is more likely it will be posted as multiple split rar files with parity files for redundancy.

With a decent provider the download speed will be dependent on your network connection.

[Riflem@n]

Can anybody comment on this compared to Giganews? I've been with GN for something like 6 years, but this is literally half price... would definitely not hurt.

Opinions appreciated.

Giganews is probably the best, but expensive.

[Defiant]

Awesome post, thanks.

So I'll share my little setup I've tuned over the years.
Newzbin - for nzbs
Sabnzbd - newsgroup client/web interface/auto download, par, unrar, and categorize
nzbdStatus - firefox plugin for newzbin/sabnzbd (click que in sabnzbd from newzbin)
nzbTV - Auto download for tv shows, queue up by season, works with newzbin

So with sabnzbd I make the web interface available from outside and I can queue up stuff from other computer or phone. It also sorts any program or shows by name and season. Tons of options I'm not even using. No more having to look for stuff or unraring, done all automatically.

[Gophermofur]

in 2002 ... dam i feel old!

So I'll share my little setup I've tuned over the years.
Newzbin - for nzbs
Sabnzbd - newsgroup client/web interface/auto download, par, unrar, and categorize
nzbdStatus - firefox plugin for newzbin/sabnzbd (click que in sabnzbd from newzbin)
nzbTV - Auto download for tv shows, queue up by season, works with newzbin

Thanks. Sabnzbd looks awesome. I was using altbinz for the longest time, but I may just make the jump. Web interface + RSS Reading/automatic queueing are some of the features I found lacking in Alt.Binz (maybe they added it now, I have an old version).

Good thing too... I'm sitting here in training and was thinking of a design on how I could write myself a little application to parse RSS feeds to queue up shows automatically. Go ahead, call me a nerd