stubs
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline
|
Currently I'm signed up to GigaNews paying about $29/month, but I want to find a cheaper alternative.
In the last 6 months I've used 1100gb on my account but could probably calm it down to about 100gb/month if fixed plan works out cheaper.
Can anyone recommend a good company to switch to?
|
John
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
|
Astraweb, £7 a month unlimited.
|
VrsTurbo
Premium Member
Registered: 8th Jun 10
User status: Offline
|
Another for Astraweb
|
noshua
Member
Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline
|
As above, best provider by far.
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.multicards.html
|
jamied
Member
Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
User status: Offline
|
i use usenetserver, again about 8dollars a month and excellent
|
Gsi_Ire
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Republic of Ireland
User status: Offline
|
Can someone drop me a U2U on how these things work? Still a torrent man but I would love to have alternatives!
Thanks!
|
stubs
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline
|
Thanks for the replies! Astraweb it is 
|
stubs
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Gsi_Ire
Can someone drop me a U2U on how these things work? Still a torrent man but I would love to have alternatives!
Thanks!
I'll be honest and admit I'm not actually sure what all the benefits are over torrent, but I was advised by a collegue to try newsgroups and just did 
I did notice a huge improvement in terms of speed, and I have the SABnzbd++ package running on my Synology, which means I can leave it running 24/7 and it's fully automatic (repairs/unpacks the downloads without intervention). I have a nice app on my iphone/ipad called myNZB which allows me to monitor and control my SABnzbd+ service on the Synology, and allows me to search and bookmark on my Newzbin account 
|
Gsi_Ire
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Republic of Ireland
User status: Offline
|
Yeah, I have had a few U2U's and have been reading up.
It seems like more work than I want tbh
Reminds me a lot of DC++, but then I havent used that in yrs so might have a poor memory of that
But thanks for the info, might be worth a look next week when I get my 50mb connection in 
[Edited on 03-10-2011 by Gsi_Ire]
|
VrsTurbo
Premium Member
Registered: 8th Jun 10
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Gsi_Ire
Yeah, I have had a few U2U's and have been reading up.
It seems like more work than I want tbh
Reminds me a lot of DC++, but then I havent used that in yrs so might have a poor memory of that
But thanks for the info, might be worth a look next week when I get my 50mb connection in
[Edited on 03-10-2011 by Gsi_Ire]
Virgin at a guess - Newsgroups use to download around 60-70Mb down when i had fibre!
|
Gsi_Ire
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Republic of Ireland
User status: Offline
|
no, based in Ireland, UPC "fibre power".
|
Voyto
Member
Registered: 9th Feb 03
Location: Stafford
User status: Offline
|
thanks for the myNZB headsup 
quote:
Originally posted by stubs
quote:
Originally posted by Gsi_Ire
Can someone drop me a U2U on how these things work? Still a torrent man but I would love to have alternatives!
Thanks!
I'll be honest and admit I'm not actually sure what all the benefits are over torrent, but I was advised by a collegue to try newsgroups and just did
I did notice a huge improvement in terms of speed, and I have the SABnzbd++ package running on my Synology, which means I can leave it running 24/7 and it's fully automatic (repairs/unpacks the downloads without intervention). I have a nice app on my iphone/ipad called myNZB which allows me to monitor and control my SABnzbd+ service on the Synology, and allows me to search and bookmark on my Newzbin account
|
stubs
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 02
Location: Bolton
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
thanks for the myNZB headsup
No worries pal! It really is so easy to use once setup correctly. Even my missus uses it no probs
|
luciaadr
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 04
Location: Bexleyheath, Greater London
User status: Offline
|
Where do people get their nzbs from? is it worth paying for nzbmatrix or newzbin?
|
John
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
|
I use nsb matrix, bin search seems to be not bad and it's free though.
As of the other day I've got sabnzbd, sickbeard, astraweb and nzbmatrix, automated the process of downloading my tv shows, seems to work well.
|
noshua
Member
Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline
|
John you need CouchPotato as well, like sickbeard but for films. Add it, when it comes out it'll auto download it in the set quality.
Sickbeard is good once you get it setup correctly.
I use nzbs.org - so simple and free but signups are closed now and are indefinably.
|
John
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
|
Can you get it to just dl anything that comes out in 1080p? Would be quite good to just check on a Fri night and see what was there.
|
noshua
Member
Registered: 19th Nov 08
User status: Offline
|
Not as far as I know, you have to specifically give title for it to download.
However, an RSS feed to nzbmatrix would easily grab anything 1080p, I hope you've got plenty of bandwidth spare though :S
|
John
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
|
Sky, which is apparently really unlimited.
|
