Dan Lewis
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
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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]
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sponj
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Registered: 26th Jun 07
Location: Perceton, North Ayrshire
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i was considering this but couldnt find any good newsgroups... u2u? 
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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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
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
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Wouldn't mind knowing the address mate.
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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^^ ditto doug lol
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gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
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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 
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amxor
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Registered: 12th May 05
Location: Rochester
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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.
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amxor
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Registered: 12th May 05
Location: Rochester
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giganews is supposedly the best news provider, but i'm currently using newsdemon.com and they seem to be good.
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Bart
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do you have to pay a subscription for all of the above newsgroups?
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Dan Lewis
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Leicestershire
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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.
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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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?
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Dan Lewis
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Leicestershire
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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
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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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?
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Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
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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.....
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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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.
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Bart
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^^ 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.
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gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
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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
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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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.
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
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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.
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Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
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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.
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John
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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.
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Jules
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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 
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MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
Location: Liverpool
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I have banged on about newsgroups for ages too...
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