Good free Usenet servers?

[teebagg666]

Hi,
I've been using freebin.readnews.com But it seems to be down a lot...
What are some good free servers?

[mesaman]

Your ISP might have one available and not tell you about it.

[Notch]

I think even if people know they will not post it. I personally do not know any 'free' newsservers. There probably are some, but as soon as they get posted a lot of newbs rush on it with 20 connections or so and then the server will be down in no time. People are keeping it more to themselves nowadays....

Thank the newbs for that.

[llama85]

Pretty much if you relly want to use usenet, your going to have to pay for a subscription.

My ISP offers service, but it is pretty shoddy, 8gb a month, 2 connections.

Check out your ISP... otherwise, you can waste your time for a while looking for a free one, but i suspect it will be just that... a waste of time.

[tnt]

if you have ipv6 available this is the way to go
http://www.sixxs.net/forum/?msg=general-735712

[llama85]

if you have ipv6 available this is the way to go
http://www.sixxs.net/forum/?msg=general-735712

Nice find!

[hotshot6473]

can you please post the details in here here of how to connect if we are on ipv6

[tnt]

open your newsreader paste this> news.ipv6.eweka.nl,choose 8 connections and thats it.i tried that server before 2 months and it was ok(only the retention was low~100days and many corrupted files but not bad for free)

[hotshot6473]

It works great thanks!!!!!!

Can you recommend any free newsreaders that work like Newsbin?

[ethics]

how do I make this free one work?I have windows xp?please someone write a tutorial

[222MHz]

It really isn't that hard..

Get a client, I'm not going to go over that here.. Use some google-fu and the search here.

Open said client, add server. Enter the details provided in one of the emails from the 'free host' I know they sent it..

And then beat yourself up for not even attempting to help yourself on google.. Then write down the date and reason for your self imposed black eye.

It's easier than setting up an pop/imap email account in Thunderbird.

Once your done with that, hope you took some good notes and come back and post this tutorial you speak of.

[SonsOfLiberty]

For IPv6:

Signup for IPv6: http://go6.net/

You will get a username and password, and a server to use, you OWN specific one.

Next, download the Gateway6 client, to create your tunnel for IPv6.

Then grab http://www.sabnzbd.org/ SABnzbd+, the only pure IPv6 compatiable NG grabber....don't believe, try connecting with other clients.

You must have IPv6 enabled and a tunnel created to use those NG servers...there's my answer, if you can't figure it out, well then more speed for me. IPv6 free servers are really great, just as could as the pay-for newsservers, minus the retention, but 100 days, well just grab new and hot stuff with it, after all that's what the tunnel is about so you can't be tracked, right :)

If you are successful in setting IPv6, the Turtle at the top of this page will flap it's wings.
http://www.kame.net/

[Seifer]

i recommend xennews. it has 2 day 10gb trial which has 200+ retention.

[SonsOfLiberty]

i recommend xennews. it has 2 day 10gb trial which has 200+ retention.


Umm that's not good noir free :pinch:

[cooldude75ph]

The only truly free ones ATM are the IPv6 nntp servers that SonsOfLiberty mentioned.

[Wwwildthing]

For IPv6:

Signup for IPv6: http://go6.net/

You will get a username and password, and a server to use, you OWN specific one.

Next, download the Gateway6 client, to create your tunnel for IPv6.

Then grab http://www.sabnzbd.org/ SABnzbd+, the only pure IPv6 compatiable NG grabber....don't believe, try connecting with other clients.

You must have IPv6 enabled and a tunnel created to use those NG servers...there's my answer, if you can't figure it out, well then more speed for me. IPv6 free servers are really great, just as could as the pay-for newsservers, minus the retention, but 100 days, well just grab new and hot stuff with it, after all that's what the tunnel is about so you can't be tracked, right :)

If you are successful in setting IPv6, the Turtle at the top of this page will flap it's wings.
http://www.kame.net/

I'm on Comcast and when I go to http://go6.net/ in Opera (9.64), it says I'm using IPv6.

If I go there in Firefox (3.0.9), it says I'm using IPv4... ditto at http://www.kame.net/

Note that this was before I installed the Gateway6 Client.

NewsBin Pro supports IPv6 in the current version.

[cinister]

I'm a complete skinflint but I still have nae probs paying for usenet.....just can't beat it. $96/year is covered in a day.

[SonsOfLiberty]

Search maybe?

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-guides-and-tutorials-65/t-free-ipv6-news-servers-guide-nzbparnewsgroups-guide-351624

[cinister]

Sorry for going off topic but love the footer SonsOfLiberty, a topic close to my heart.

[SonsOfLiberty]

The new one? Cannabis one?

[CBen]

http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=speed&order=DESC
from here few works without enabling IPv6 or without IPv6 tunneling but not getting speed ..after connected stop and when start not more thn 10-50 KB that sux....but im not sure if i enable IPv6 maybe i'll get better speed..or this speed always like this...
anyone................................

[SonsOfLiberty]

Those are probably IPv4 free servers and the speeds and retention will suck.

[rippinitup4fun]

http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=speed&order=DESC
from here few works without enabling IPv6 or without IPv6 tunneling but not getting speed ..after connected stop and when start not more thn 10-50 KB that sux....but im not sure if i enable IPv6 maybe i'll get better speed..or this speed always like this...
anyone................................

90+% of them servers will be text only and read only servers. The few you will find that have binaries will only carry a very limited few groups and usually none of the bigger more popular ones like a.b.movies.divx and the like. Speeds will suck and completion will as well. The only good free servers out there are the couple ipv6 testing servers and those will only last for a limited time.

[hotshot6473]

Both eweka and xsnews arn't working for me right now? Anybody else?

[rac123]

Eweka was/is working but xsnews as you can see below isn't working since yesterday:

http://www.xsnews.com/ipv6/traffic.php

[road2elysium]

http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=speed&order=DESC
from here few works without enabling IPv6 or without IPv6 tunneling but not getting speed ..after connected stop and when start not more thn 10-50 KB that sux....but im not sure if i enable IPv6 maybe i'll get better speed..or this speed always like this...
anyone................................

90+% of them servers will be text only and read only servers. The few you will find that have binaries will only carry a very limited few groups and usually none of the bigger more popular ones like a.b.movies.divx and the like. Speeds will suck and completion will as well. The only good free servers out there are the couple ipv6 testing servers and those will only last for a limited time.

So the ipv6 free servers are a temporary testing ground? How long do we expect them to be up? I'm considering Astra v. the free ipv6 ones.

[AdamRav]

Astra is very good

Im on the 11$/month deal

Which is like £6 if your from the UK

You can't go wrong

Or if your with Virgin Media they offer free newsgroup access also

Its UNLIMITED USAGE but the retention is only 7 days which means you can only get the latest new stuff no older stuff.

[oklahomasucks]

As other said, ISP is your best bet. Others will be flaky/dead.

[rippinitup4fun]

90+% of them servers will be text only and read only servers. The few you will find that have binaries will only carry a very limited few groups and usually none of the bigger more popular ones like a.b.movies.divx and the like. Speeds will suck and completion will as well. The only good free servers out there are the couple ipv6 testing servers and those will only last for a limited time.

So the ipv6 free servers are a temporary testing ground? How long do we expect them to be up? I'm considering Astra v. the free ipv6 ones.

Days, weeks, months. Who knows pretty much when they decide to pull them down. Thats the problem with the free servers or testing servers they never last.

[VBart]

Good evenning gentlemen.

People, I'm kinda lost here!

All the usenet servers that used to work for me seem to be down since the beginning of August, all at once. I'm wondering if that's my ISP blocking access to Usenet (maybe locking port 119?) so I'd like to know if there's a way to find out if that's occuring or not.

The Usenet servers that I'm trying to access are Eweka, Newszilla & XS News - all of them through IPv6, of course. GrabIt! gets stucked and reports that it was unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 (Connection closed gracefully)

Keeping in mind that everything used to work like a charm, what am I supposed to do now?

Best Regards.
Bart

[EyeBaller]

The free ones were nice while they lasted, too much downtime to be worth the hassle now considering good pay servers are ~$10/month now or less.

[VBart]

The free ones were nice while they lasted, too much downtime to be worth the hassle now considering good pay servers are ~$10/month now or less.

But that's exactly what I'm trying to figure out. They're all down or is this my ISP blocking access?

I've seen a lot of people even on this thread stating that free servers are unstable (which I agree) but the thing is that since 1st August all of them seem to be down for me, any time of the day

How do I know if that's my ISP blocking access or not?

These are the command lines I'm running on the batch after setting up the IPv6 tunnel on Hurricane:



netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=1119 connectaddress=news.ipv6.eweka.nl connectport=119
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=1118 connectaddress=newszilla6.xs4all.nl connectport=119
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=1117 connectaddress=reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl connectport=119


This always worked fine for me, I just run those commands and them set GrabIt! to 127.0.0.1 on ports 1117, 1118 & 1119. But now it just doesn't work anymore.

[freealta]

The ipv6 has been working, all 3 are working for me at the moment. xsnews was down for several days but has started working again.
Did you check your IP address whatismyipv6.net ?
If that looks fine, then tracert news.ipv6.eweka.nl to see if/where there is a network issue.

[VBart]

The ipv6 has been working, all 3 are working for me at the moment. xsnews was down for several days but has started working again.
Did you check your IP address whatismyipv6.net ?
If that looks fine, then tracert news.ipv6.eweka.nl to see if/where there is a network issue.

Hi there freealta, thanks for the answer.

Here's what, when I get to http://whatismyipv6.net/ it's told me that I'm currently on a IPv4 connection :blink:

That's really confusing since I have a Hurricane tunnel currently on and running with my own IP, the exact same way as I used to get access to those Usenet servers

What's the matter?

[VBart]

Well, I found out why it's not working.

My ISP simply blocked port 119 from one day to another without telling anyone and they've already stated that's a permanent set.

DAMN!!

[EyeBaller]

Well, I found out why it's not working.

My ISP simply blocked port 119 from one day to another without telling anyone and they've already stated that's a permanent set.

DAMN!!

What ISP?

[VBart]

Well, I found out why it's not working.

My ISP simply blocked port 119 from one day to another without telling anyone and they've already stated that's a permanent set.

DAMN!!

What ISP?

It's a brazilian ISP known an Net Virtua.

[EyeBaller]

It's a brazilian ISP known an Net Virtua.

Interesting for them to complete block a port like that. Well I guess you have two options..
1) Switch ISP
2) Get a pay server, so you can use alternate/SSL ports

[VBart]

Yeah, I see. Do you know if there are any free servers that offer SSL?

I would like to make a test before signing up a paid service.

[EyeBaller]

Yeah, I see. Do you know if there are any free servers that offer SSL?

I would like to make a test before signing up a paid service.

Many providers give you free trials, alternatively just get a small block account for a few dollars from blocknews or somewhere with SSL accounts and try it that way.