cant find anything on usenet ...

i have been hearing for some time now about how great usenet is, and how bad bit torrent is, so i have signed up to giganews and have been on it with newsbin.

lured in by talk of great content, great speeds, etc etc. well the speed is great, but as far as i can tell there is simply nothing worth downloading.

i have downloaded lots of film and movie group headers, which has taken 12+ hours @ 8mbs (ie i have downloaded a lot), and what do i have ?

a few films i have never heard of, a few rubbish films, a million requests that are all the same, and maybe 2 mediocre films worth watching.

am i doing something wrong here ? or is there really just nothing out there ?

mininova etc maybe slow, but at least you could find what you wanted most of the time.

The easier way is of using usenet is to download NZBs which is like a torrent file, telling the newsreader what to download.

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/nzbindex.php - Our index of NZBs
http://binsearch.info - a nzb search engine

don't forget about newzbin.com

ok thanks, i tried that, for example im looking for the movie pans labyrinth.

it returned this result :

HOROR GERMAN ] - [069/126] - "Pans Labyrinth (Deluxe Edition, 3 DVDs)_DVD(DVDRiP).Deutsch-German.avi.wmv" yEnc (1/4)

a.b.movies.divx.german

, then i tried subscribing the this group ^^ but the newsreader doesnt have it, and i have refreshed the list ....

It takes a little looking, and learning what you are seeing,
for a dvd copy I would try result #15, though it is in PAL format.

For an AVI copy I would download #36

http://binsearch.info/?q=Pans+Labyri...ge=200&server=


the one you are looking at is obviously in german, so unless you speak german....

Usenet must be good. Heard alot of good things about it. Might have to jump on the bandwagon.

http://www.nzbsrus.com/index.php

Just did a search with http://v3.newzbin.com/ for labyrinth this is what I got
Title: Labyrinth (1986) Status: Normal Progress: http://v3.newzbin.com/m/i/i/progress/inprogress.png In Progress More Info: http://v3.newzbin.com/m/i/i/url.png http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/ NFO: http://v3.newzbin.com/m/i/i/nfo_off.png No NFO attached. Poster: [email protected] (230781)
Browse Reports from this Poster
Browse Files from this Poster Editor: bowhuntr
Browse Reports by this Editor Reported: Tuesday 01 Jan 2008, 08:36PM UTC (19 hours ago) (before upload finished) Posted: Started: 28 hours ago, finished: 17 hours ago, duration: 10h 4m 16s
Approx upload speed: 149.1KB/sec Size: 109 files, 109 data, 0 recovery
Encoded: 5,280.5MB data + 0.0B recovery = 5,280.5MB total
Decoded: 5,069.3MB data + 0.0B recovery = 5,069.3MB total (estimated) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.dvd, alt.binaries.ftd Attributes: Category: Movies
Video Source: DVD
Video Format: DVD
Video Genre: Action/Adv, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Language: English
Audio Format: AC3/DD
Stats: 37 views, 0 comments

Sorry just noted you were looking for Pans Labyrinth not
Labyrinth just ignore my previous message. :O

Hi,

Newsgroups require a bit of investment on your part to work.

First you need a news provider: giganews, newshosting(who I am with), and others, price about $14/month for unlimited.

Second you need a newsreader, I like newsleecher. If you pay for it you get a search engine with 200 days retention. Then you search for what you want and download it.

If you take those steps, you should have a great time in newsgroups.

I think some news providers even offer a free version of newsleecher with a subscription.

It is all there, I get every single tv shows I watch, from North America, and the UK off the newsgroups, to the point I canceled cable TV.

Cheers!

If you are getting slow speeds with giganews, odds are you are being throttled by your ISP, in which case you will have to pay the extra 5 or so dollars for SSL encryption. Oh and by the way.. stay away from any file with the extension .avi.wmv especially if the poster is the king of spam miloch

For searches try:
http://newzleech.com/ - Simply the best!
http://binsearch.info - My 2nd favourite.
http://www.nzbindex.nl/ - Another good one.
http://www.binaries.nl/ - Supposed to be but I havent used it much.

Checkout the following for an organised list of the latest NZBs. Some of these you'll have to sign-up for.

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/nzbindex.php - Pure awesomeness.
http://nzbmatrix.com/ - Really good.
http://www.tvnzb.com/ - Very good and easy to use.
http://www.nzbsrus.com/nzbbrowse.php - meh..good but I dont use it much, FST and NZBMatrix are good enough.
http://v3.nzb-dogz.net/
http://www.merlins-portal.net/index.html
http://www.gotnzb.com/
http://www.ftn2day.nl
For perverts: :-) http://www.kleverig.nl/, & xnzb.net

http://v3.newzbin.com/ - supposedly the best one. (Dont contact me for invites I dont even have an account there but if you do then please pass an invite this way :))

Hope this helps you find the stuff you're looking for.

(If anyone seeing this post know of any other good ones please PM me so I can add them)

why is it that when i downloaded with newzbin i got a steady 8mb/s, and newsleecher only does 1mb/s (i have set it to have 20 connections)

Have to give newsleecher a try

limpdickkid thanks for the list of search engines, now I'm gonna go and try some of them :)

http://www.binaries.nl/