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by Orange Devil Bat 07/12/2011, 4:52pm PDT |
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The days of free usenet access for downloading binaries of any significant size are over. If you're planning on downloading from usenet regularly, do yourself a favor and get a pay account somewhere. Giganews is good, Usenetserver is good, Supernews is good. These places contain massive drive storage capabilities. Put it this way. Your average ISP, if they even free usenet access at all, usually has such terrible retention rates that things that get uploaded are gone within a matter of days. My ISP got so bad that when downloading a movie, the first few RAR files would start disappearing before the last ones were done uploading. If you are getting into usenet for the conversations, cheap or free usenet accounts may still cut it. If you're getting into them for downloading binaries of any length (games, movies, music, etc.) forget about it. The pay places have excellent retention. I think Giganews now boasts a two year retention rate, which is pretty impressive.
Also, the pay usenet services have unbelievable speeds. I have a 50 megabit download speed limit and Giganews pegs my connection. Most pay usenet services allow multiple connections. I can download an mp3 album in, oh, 15-20 seconds usually. Also, most of the pay providers support encrypted SSL connections, because hey, if you want to download pictures of chicks with dicks, that's between you and the chicks and nobody else.
You can download binary files one of two ways. The first is, you can use a program (I use NewsBin), add a newsgroup (alt.binaries.chix-with-dix) and start downloading. The program will download all the headers (filenames) and you'll be able to sort and browse and flag files to be downloaded. The other option is to use a search engine, like the one you posted a link to. Those search engines (there are dozens and dozens of free ones) scour usenet and catalog files. You can flag the files you want and download the list as an NZB file, which is really just an XML list (you can open one in Notepad and look at it and see the file names). Any binary newsgroup program will support NZB files. Just open the file and your program will go find all the files and download them all.
I've always said Napster was like a store that carried everything, and usenet is more like a garage sale. You're kind of at the mercy of what other people have uploaded, but with a 2 year retention, there's a pretty good selection. Most modern programs and movies end up there almost immediately. You can get UFC fights about an hour after the pay-per-views end.
The best part of usenet is, no one can see what you are downloading. People upload files (hopefully anonymously) and you download them. If you're paying for a service you can download whatever and however much you want (I pay $15/month for unlimited, and justify that as well less than the price of a single Xbox 360 game). |
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NZB: like being back in the shadowy world of gopher downloads for all I know by NDD 07/12/2011, 4:01pm PDT 
btw all the torrents for this (and red chapel) are fakes, do not even bother. NT by NDD 07/12/2011, 4:02pm PDT 
NZB FILES and YOU by Orange Devil Bat 07/12/2011, 4:52pm PDT 
Thanks that was helpful by NDD 07/12/2011, 5:59pm PDT 
btw the giganews trial was just eough to cover what i needed by NDD 07/13/2011, 1:55am PDT 
Re: btw the giganews trial was just eough to cover what i needed by ZDC 07/13/2011, 10:00am PDT 
Leg Press is for the Pat Robertsons of the world. Why not do squats? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2011, 3:38pm PDT 
I'm scared of getting into pissing contests with the free weights guys. by NDD 07/13/2011, 3:41pm PDT 
I've seen maybe 5 other people in six months do squats/use a smith machine by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2011, 6:52pm PDT 
IT WAS A LOT HARDER THAN I REMEMBER IT BEING by NDD 07/13/2011, 9:30pm PDT 
Re: IT WAS A LOT HARDER THAN I REMEMBER IT BEING by Lizard_King 07/17/2011, 8:16pm PDT 
btw I hated stairs for the next three days by NDD 07/17/2011, 11:00pm PDT 
I'm not sure if you'll get much out of Rippetoe by WITTGENSTEIN 07/19/2011, 3:46pm PDT 
Re: I'm not sure if you'll get much out of Rippetoe by NDD 07/20/2011, 1:53am PDT 
Let me know if you think it makes a dramatic improvement by WITTGENSTEIN 07/20/2011, 4:29pm PDT 
Re: Let me know if you think it makes a dramatic improvement by NDD 07/20/2011, 10:33pm PDT 
This post changed my life and I miss talking about lifting with Zseni by WITTGENSTEIN 08/07/2014, 7:09pm PDT 
I kind of want to sit on your shoulders and go on a rampage through the city. NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/08/2014, 2:11am PDT 
asagfhg space russian moms. <3 <3 <3 NT by up with pod people 07/22/2011, 1:28pm PDT 
I watched that video three times. Every time, I learned something. NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/26/2011, 8:11pm PDT 
What group was this in? by Last 07/14/2011, 5:10pm PDT 
Russian torrent site. Hang on and I'll upload it for you. Plus subs. by NDD 07/14/2011, 5:40pm PDT 
Peculiarities of the national hunt by NDD 07/14/2011, 7:40pm PDT 
Re: Peculiarities of the national hunt by Last 07/15/2011, 3:23am PDT 
Howto by Last 07/15/2011, 3:37am PDT 
Re: Howto by Last 07/31/2011, 7:13am PDT 
You're welcome. And... by Orange Devil Bat 07/13/2011, 7:54pm PDT 
I love Giganews. NT by Gutsby 07/12/2011, 6:19pm PDT 
And I have had good experiences with Newshosting. by col.schickn 07/12/2011, 8:20pm PDT 
Re: NZB FILES and YOU by Motherhead 07/17/2011, 12:21pm PDT 
You might like Siberian Education by Nikolai Lilin. by Gutsby 07/12/2011, 5:54pm PDT 
I'd like to read it but I'm having a hard time tracking down a pdf by NDD 07/12/2011, 9:53pm PDT 
Are you a Jonathan Rosenbaum fan by Vested Id 07/12/2011, 7:43pm PDT 
No. I saw the movie in the local arty theater totally blind by NDD 07/12/2011, 9:54pm PDT 
Why is Best of the Best 2 so good? It shouldn't be possible! by Entropy Stew 07/12/2011, 8:53pm PDT 
Because it's full of stupid joy and steely-eyed earnestness. by NDD 07/12/2011, 10:05pm PDT 
my perestroika.mp4 by NDD 07/13/2011, 4:34pm PDT 
I'm pretty sure my computer just got AIDS from that download site by Fullofkittens 07/13/2011, 6:48pm PDT 
...and you're still pining after it, aren't you by NDD 07/13/2011, 9:28pm PDT 
I believe that's called the "Double Pinback". NT by Flack 07/14/2011, 8:01am PDT 
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