Free Usenet. 10 Days+ Retention [Archive]

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Solariz

09-17-2009, 03:15 PM

http://www.just4today.net/

Username and password change daily.

The service is stable and even with max 2 connections, I can max out my 10mbit

SonsOfLiberty

09-17-2009, 03:35 PM

I wonder how long it will last though, I think there trying to advertise something, dunno, I'll wait and see if I'm too lazy to pay my Usenet bill next month or not.

Solariz

09-17-2009, 03:44 PM

It has been up and running stable for the last three months.

And as an advertisement I think it is great. Their 1 year contract cost 25 Euros for 40days Retention.

captive

09-17-2009, 05:06 PM

nice post, cheers

Rart

09-17-2009, 08:35 PM

Interesting. I'll have to try it out sometime, thanks for the post.

unoriginal

09-18-2009, 02:04 AM

Thanks for the heads up Solariz, never heard of this site before. A traceroute shows they are using Xentech.

So, I gave this a try tonight and never managed to get more than 165K on my 6meg dsl connection. Good idea for people that want to save a few bucks but I think I will still keep my $11 Astraweb account.

ericab

09-18-2009, 03:09 AM

yeah good find. i got a range of 400-500KB here in USA

it fluctuated wildly.

changing the password daily is a real bummer. but hey, free's, free.

beansis

09-19-2009, 04:59 AM

ooh I got 1mb/s, but it did fluctuate a lot

renwickftw

09-19-2009, 06:57 AM

Thanks Solariz. But I can't connect to the server right now.... Was working fine last night, could get around 200kb/s. Is it just me? The websites fine though.

EDIT: Fine now =D

TheKarateKitt

09-19-2009, 11:26 PM

Wow. This is beautiful! I didn't think a decent, FREE (and legit) Usenet even EXISTED! Getting between 600-850 KB/sec! Thanks a bunch, Solariz, for posting this! <3 :)

Although, maybe I shouldn't bump this. The less people that know about this, the better. Shhhhhh!

brilman

09-19-2009, 11:43 PM

thanks....

got around 400KB

nice find

SonsOfLiberty

09-20-2009, 02:46 AM

Wow. This is beautiful! I didn't think a decent, FREE (and legit) Usenet even EXISTED!

Sure there have been, for a long time:

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

Eaglenik

09-20-2009, 10:52 AM

Funkin'

09-21-2009, 01:39 PM

Thank you solariz. This will come in handy if it stays active.

maphongbax

09-21-2009, 08:19 PM

I remember the RIAA once set up a torrent indexing website where they tracked and busted a lot of people when they post a torrent.
This seems too good to be true, make me wonder if this is one of those RIAA's traps ?

Rart

09-21-2009, 08:55 PM

I can't really read the language, but it would seem like they are using it as an ad for their paid service.

backlash

09-22-2009, 11:56 AM

this is a great addition to my regular news server. thanks for sharing.

Solariz

09-22-2009, 12:23 PM

SonsOfLiberty

09-22-2009, 04:20 PM

Sure, but they would get away with it....they haven't thrown out to many of those cases, watch yourself if you upload through there.

unisonruss

10-14-2009, 02:36 AM

This is amazing! Thank you!

Youcef

11-12-2009, 04:43 AM

Sure, but they would get away with it....they haven't thrown out to many of those cases, watch yourself if you upload through there.

upload is not available with free servers ... (201 message)

11/12/2009 05:41:06 SERVER=news.just4today.net, MSG=201 newsserver NNRP Service Ready - newsserver (no posting).

ddt

11-13-2009, 12:04 PM

edit sorry

Dantesean

11-14-2009, 09:23 AM

there is also a FREE USENET trail, for like, 5 gb, its not allot, but you can keep on making accounts if your smart, using proxys.

http://www.ftn2day.nl/

will get to 700kb/s 700kb/s at mine mine.

onelove

ddt

11-14-2009, 12:14 PM

thx :)

dutchmaster420

11-19-2009, 03:23 AM

i just tried this and am getting a 502 error-access denied to your node

is this still working for anybody else?

Edit: N/M working now...thinking about cancelling astraweb and just staying on top of things with this...was waiting to see if this lasted and it seems to be

WannaPlay

11-25-2009, 01:57 PM

I haven't tried newsgroups in years. Thought i would have another go with this. But am having trouble, can't seem to get it working! I went to http://www.just4today.net/ and got info thats needed. Got sabnzbd installed added an open port and added the server info. Then i went to tvnzb.com, so i download and saved the .nzb file and then went to sabnzbd and added it. It shows up but doesn't seem to download anything.

These are the error's:

"2009-11-25 13:44:55,046 ERROR [newswrapper] Failed to connect: (10061, 'Connection refused') [email protected]:port i use"

"2009-11-25 13:46:55,062 WARNING [downloader] Thread [email protected]:port i use: timed out"

Am i missing something?

Cheers!

I've figured it out, it was to do with the port

brilman

11-29-2009, 08:02 PM

dam ports! aways seems to be the one thing ya don't think of

AdamRav

01-19-2010, 05:52 PM

does anyone know the retention ??

it says 10 day + but it doesnt seem to be :S

aktiv8

01-22-2010, 09:20 AM

This is a great site, but to often than not lately I've been experiencing username/password problems resulting in the 502 error.

Despite getting the daily un/pw combo, I still get the error as if they have not updated their server login or something similar. (today is a prime example)

As for retention, my experience is it's about 9 days rahter than 10 for what I tend to d/l