Comments on: NewsMan Pro v2.7.0.6 RETAIL-TE

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:01:22 +0000

mike rodot, another good guide I used is http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:57:42 +0000

@45

I used to think like that, but it’s so much easier with usenet. I just buy a block account from usenet-news.net where you get 300GB for $66, no time limit on it, bought it last year will last me a good few more months aswel
.
No worrying about ratios like I did with torrents, (public trackers too slow to use) and now downloading maxes out my connection. Works out at 22 cents per gigabyte, which is nothing if you have a job.

And btw AltBinz is the best newsreader.

By: mike rodot

mike rodot — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:15:54 +0000

@love2help

Many thanks! I am reading through it now.

By: mike rodot

mike rodot — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:14:28 +0000

@love2help

By: Spanky

Spanky — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:17:16 +0000

RIAA and MPAA can’t touch it because it’s the backbone of the internet

By: love2help

love2help — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:01:28 +0000

@Spanky and @mike rodot
A tutorial for you
http://www.binaries4all.com/beginners/

How is that company’s with newsservers farms can sell illegal stuff, and not be sued?
While torrent site who just post links are threatened.

By: mupet0000

mupet0000 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:45:41 +0000

I tried it and hated it. Alt.Binz is the BEST out there.

By: SaTaN

SaTaN — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:38:50 +0000

Grabit + http://www.maximumusenet.com = the win for me
grabit is a nice and easy program to dl and max has great speeds and its only like 12 bucks for unlimited
I get 500kb easy takes me no time to dl movies or games.
usenet is faster and so easy. use a search like newzleech.com and bam you got the file. if a file is corrupt you use the .par files and it fixes them. much easier then re-dling the file from somewhere else.

By: mike rodot

mike rodot — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:16:11 +0000

I have yet to find Usenet instructions that make any sense. It seems that you have to manually hunt down each and every one of the possibly thousands of pieces to get a complete file, and the pieces may have different formats within the same file. I’ve read several FAQs, but the whole process seems way complicated compared to BT. I just subscribed to Agent and Newsguy, but they’re both confusing; it’s easy to read postings, but putting together complete files is another story. If anyone has a link to instructions that may be easier for an oldtime BT user, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

By: darran

darran — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:08:15 +0000

i use newsbin pro, is it better than that?
easynews $10 for 10gb is the service i use, mainly for the search, then i use my isp’s newsgroups (virgin uk) to get most the stuff. if ur isp provides a.b.movies.divx and a.b.warez.ibm-pc.0-day ur sorted.
don’t get me wrong private trackers are great too, newsgroups don’t always have the niche stuff u need, but if ur isp provides binaries use it!!
daz

By: JIMK

JIMK — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:56:09 +0000

What you mean the others require you to search manually. Isn’t that the same method to search through newsleecher’s supersearch.

By: your name here

your name here — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:39:22 +0000

http://www.news.astraweb.com/ 120 days and growing 39 for 3 months no limits 20 connections it rocks!

http://www.iusenet.com hant tried yet but 10 a month unlimited 110 days connections ?

By: XL

XL — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:32:42 +0000

nzbomatic is ok for free

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:31:07 +0000

“Newsman Pro comes with the Advantage Database Server (ADS) as the built-in database engine. This engine functions quite well for text newsgroups and smaller binary groups. It is NOT designed to handle the large volumes of data that would be processed in a binary newsgroup such as alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 or groups that are even larger. If you want to use Newsman Pro as a binary downloader, we highly recommend that you download MySQL or use Microsoft© SQL Server. MySQL is available using the links at the top of this page, while Microsoft© SQL Server is available directly from Microsoft. When processing headers, MySQL and SQL Server are approximately 1000 times faster than ADS. They are also about 3 times faster for other general purposes such as browsing messages and downloading articles.”

By: Michael Collins

Michael Collins — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:20 +0000

I keep going back to Grabit for binaries because it’s such a simple program. I use the free version. The paid just lets you perform more searches, but I use Newzleech.com for simple searching.

Xnews is fine for all else usenet

Giganews is expensive for unlimited secure usenet access, but I can download a 700mb file in 15 minutes or less any time of day. I suppose there’s several others that are cheaper that offer the same?

The only problem I have with usenet downloads is an occasional broken file that I’m too lazy to repair (and I don’t have to worry about bandwidth limits).