Newsgroups noob

[beerman]

I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to newsgroups.

I know that some providers keep the messages on their servers for longer than others and have heard that easynews always has all the messages.

Problem is they only offer 6 gig a month which seems a bit small for what i want to download.

A freind uses news2me but they are web based and i want to use something like newsbin pro.
Does anyone know of any newsgroup servers that have good retention and offer a bit more than 6gig for $10 a month?

What do you guys all use?

Beerman

[CzarJunkie]

I use astraweb and they have been great for me on a 512k connection. No downtime and always 60k a sec. They have a 10 day retention and their coverage is excellent. Not bad for less than £10 a month.

If you have more than 512k then I've heard that astraweb maybe ain't the best but I wouldn't know.

http://news.astraweb.com/

[beerman]

Cheers I might give them a try.
Unlimited sounds better than 6 gig a month for the same price.

Beerman

[urbsy]

I use astraweb and are very pleased with them, they have had their moments but seem to be over the worst now.
Download averages about 170k on my 2mb cable.

urbsy

[beerman]

just signed up.

Downloading the newsgroup headers now but only getting 46k.
Peak time I suppose

Beerman

[§te]

im with allthenewsgroups.com
10gig download per month for £5.60

top speeds and free header download - rentenion is fantastic at 20 days for the largest groups

[rockdj99uk]

www.newshosting.com have just started an unlimited service. Just shy of $15/month, 4 connections, 2Mbps max download and 14 day retention (soon to be 24 day) and 99% completion.

Have been using there normal services and the speeds, retention & completion are fantastic.

[matrix]

I use astraweb and are very pleased with them, they have had their moments but seem to be over the worst now.
Download averages about 170k on my 2mb cable.

urbsy

what news reader are you using. I have recently signed up with them and get about 40k download and I am on a 1meg connection. It may be the way I have my newsreader set up. I am currently using xnews

thanks

[urbsy]

Im using grabit m8

urbsy

[jed99]

Claranews here. £50 a year for 20GB a month. If you hit your limit in any given month you can reset it via an admin panel (your yearly renewal date will reflect the changes).

Retention is only a few days but I can't honestly say that I've haven't missed anything that I needed over the past year.

[beerman]

Matrix

I get about 40-45k on Astraweb using Newsbin pro

Beerman

[matrix]

Im using grabit m8

urbsy

how do you rate this as it looks fairly easy to use from the screenshots and guides on the website. I am a news group noob.

thanks,

Andy

[beerman]

Matrix

Up until a week ago I was a noob as well get yourself a copy of either Newsbin pro or grabit. Both are easy to use and set up.

Changed to Grabit cos it's free and dosn't have a popup every 2 mins.

Still only getting 45k most of the time with the occasional 55k.

Beerman

[matrix]

Matrix

Up until a week ago I was a noob as well get yourself a copy of either Newsbin pro or grabit. Both are easy to use and set up.

Changed to Grabit cos it's free and dosn't have a popup every 2 mins.

Still only getting 45k most of the time with the occasional 55k.

Beerman

got Grabit on friday night. haven't stopped downloading all weekend, my xbox has never been so active :whistle

I am getting about 110k download using grabit with 2/3 threads downloading.

cheers for the info and advice on this,

Andy

[urbsy]

I use grabit as its simple and works well, theres more advanced ones out there but I like it.

Newsgroups rock!, good luck with it m8

urbsy

[ABCMan]

i use newshosting 10gb for £5.80 and its FAST

retention on binary groups is 30+ days completion is said to be 99% but i've never seen an incomplete, upto 8 connections at once, no logs kept and as with most others you can reset your account if you run out of credit (although it usualy lets you overflow by upto 1gb), unlimited posting too.

i'm thinking of switching to their capped service once its retention is increased though cos $15 is still only about £8/month

[Fusen]

noob question as I've only used telewest supprot newsgroup but so far as I've been reading im guesisng a newsgroup is like a private server or two with a sort of built in forum where users can uplaod files to share with everyone and it doesnt matetr if its warez and shit it still goes through?

[copey123]

Im using astraweb simply because downloading 4-5gb a day, i need an unlimited account Haven't had any problems as of yet though, and the 10 day retention ain't too bad, i usually grab what i want in time with no messing about thanks to newzbin.com and the likes.

[Fusen]

just joined in on this newsgroup malarkey lol signed up with astraweb... nice to have some decent download speeds when gettin films now =O