I'm on the $5.00 a month unlimited Thundernews plan. 50 connections, SSL, great retention. Been with them almost a year now, I highly recommend them. :thumbsup:
Easynews is the best. 10$ a month and they have an incredible web interface where you can query for anything you want with an insane number of filters such as date range, size, type (audio, video, etc), etc. Newsgroups SUCK if you don't have something filtering one thing you want and giving it to you in one lump file. With standard NNTP access you have to peruse through tens, or hundreds of thousands of posts and, if you find what you want, it is probably 200 different rar files, yencoded and they will be riddled through 800 other posts. So then you have to try to download all 200, then you have to ydecode them or whatever, then unrar them. It's insanely difficult. Some newsgroup readers make it SLIGHTLY easier but it's still a huge pain. With easynews I may do something like search for "SomeMovieName" and check 'video' type and whola. There it is. I just right click and choose save as and the final mkv or avi (or whatever it is) comes down. If there is a way as easy as easynews and cheaper I'll bite. I signed up for this for 1$, just downloaded Forte, which I haven't used in like 7 years, and it's everything I remembered; a huge pain in the ass. Back to easynews. JeffMD is right.
because you will probably have crappy completion rates with a $11 unlimited service. there is a reason you don't see $11 unlimited accounts on the top 5 news services. Easynews is prolly on the low end when it comes to dollar per gig when it comes to the top 10 services, others are giving like 25-40 gigs for $10 (You can also download more then 20 gigs if you stick to easynews's nntp server).
On the plus side, only with easynews can I search for the movie, click the thumbnails, and see what it is I am actually downloading. If you download blindly using NBZ files, you will find yourself with crappy foreign rips or password locked archives.
This whole post is absolutely full of false information.because you will probably have crappy completion rates with a $11 unlimited service. there is a reason you don't see $11 unlimited accounts on the top 5 news services. Easynews is prolly on the low end when it comes to dollar per gig when it comes to the top 10 services, others are giving like 25-40 gigs for $10 (You can also download more then 20 gigs if you stick to easynews's nntp server).
On the plus side, only with easynews can I search for the movie, click the thumbnails, and see what it is I am actually downloading. If you download blindly using NBZ files, you will find yourself with crappy foreign rips or password locked archives.
I don't have any problems with retention or completion rates using Astraweb.
It's not full of false information. It's actually very good. I actually pay 15$ a month for easynews to get longer retention and more gigs. My gigs roll over and I'm at like 800GB. I also have plenty of retention.
What JeffMD and I are saying is we don't CARE what any retention rates, gigs/month, etc are if we have to use NNTP! NNTP sucks balls! Another person mentioned it earlier that he's tried all kinds of tools and every now and again trys again or tries something new and it still sucks balls. I just signed up for the OPs original service, tried a couple of NNTP reader and they still suck major balls compared with easynews. Easynews is just plain easy. I would LOVE to switch to ANYONE else if they were just as easy if not easier. It is a painfully simple, web search interface with everything unrared-unyenc-etc. Just download the ONE file of what you want usually. Now I just looked around the astraweb web site and can't find anywhere it says it is anything other than an NNTP provider.
JeffMD 100% knows what he is talking about.
Summary: NNTP through EASY Web interface with everything done for you.
I'm a guy who doesn't want to spend all day searching across 45000 different files for the 200 I need...maybe they exist...or a few are missing...then downloading each one...then yencoding them....then unraring....
I prefer to spend my time having sex with living females, not getting wedgies, having a job and life, living in a non-parents-basement, and not being such a fat-loser-dork-in-a-wheelchair spending half his day screwing around with NNTP groups. I like being such a non-pasty-troll that I've never even heard of 'Bob'. Be proud of your obscure, 'witty', outdated tech references. I guess I won't be running into you at Dragoncon in your home made Stargate or Borg outfit.
Now that's enough said.
Gotta love trolls. Thanks for adding nothing.
It's not full of false information. It's actually very good. I actually pay 15$ a month for easynews to get longer retention and more gigs. My gigs roll over and I'm at like 800GB. I also have plenty of retention.
What JeffMD and I are saying is we don't CARE what any retention rates, gigs/month, etc are if we have to use NNTP! NNTP sucks balls! Another person mentioned it earlier that he's tried all kinds of tools and every now and again trys again or tries something new and it still sucks balls. I just signed up for the OPs original service, tried a couple of NNTP reader and they still suck major balls compared with easynews. Easynews is just plain easy. I would LOVE to switch to ANYONE else if they were just as easy if not easier. It is a painfully simple, web search interface with everything unrared-unyenc-etc. Just download the ONE file of what you want usually. Now I just looked around the astraweb web site and can't find anywhere it says it is anything other than an NNTP provider.
JeffMD 100% knows what he is talking about.
Summary: NNTP through EASY Web interface with everything done for you.
Don't claim something sucks balls because you don't know how to use it. Anyone who spends time manually yencoding and unraring is either a complete moron or simply just uninformed.I'm a guy who doesn't want to spend all day searching across 45000 different files for the 200 I need...maybe they exist...or a few are missing...then downloading each one...then yencoding them....then unraring....
I prefer to spend my time having sex with living females, not getting wedgies, having a job and life, living in a non-parents-basement, and not being such a fat-loser-dork-in-a-wheelchair spending half his day screwing around with NNTP groups. I like being such a non-pasty-troll that I've never even heard of 'Bob'. Be proud of your obscure, 'witty', outdated tech references. I guess I won't be running into you at Dragoncon in your home made Stargate or Borg outfit.
Now that's enough said.
Gotta love trolls. Thanks for adding nothing.
http://sabnzbd.org/What is it?
SABnzbd is an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python.
It's totally free, incredibly easy to use, and works practically everywhere.
SABnzbd makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.
Go to nzbmatrix or nzbrus and register for an account. Registrations are free but you're limited to the number of downloads per 24 hour period.I just got the deal on the rest of the month. Is it automatically renewed?
The quality of newsgroups appear to be so bad now. Most of the groups I visited in the past are full of fake posts. Can you recommend a few good ones? Looks like I can hardly use 10GB even if I download for the sake of downloading.
I'd be interested in apps, movies.
SABNZBd being a background service that you access with your web browser is one of the ugliest and unfriendliest interfaces I have ever seen.
Be sure to use HTTPS for both your newreader and your nzb websites (e.g. Newzbin.com).
The torrent people are far, far easier targets.
True...but using HTTPS is completely free, and very easy to setup.
SABNZBd being a background service that you access with your web browser is one of the ugliest and unfriendliest interfaces I have ever seen.