Newsgroups. Hands down. Faster and more stable speeds. And just more of everything. Make sure to get a good premium provider though with good retention and completion.
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Newsgroups. Hands down. Faster and more stable speeds. And just more of everything. Make sure to get a good premium provider though with good retention and completion.
BT, I just don't wanna pay anything, not to mention to learn something new. :-P
Ive tried using newsgroups before with little or no success. Guess i'll just stick to bittorrent. its easy and there are no costs involvled..
I use both, just because i like some of the bittorrent communities (like OINK)
and the stuff that is on there, i use Usenet for the fast grab of new and popular stuff. With a 20MB connection maxed out is that the fastest filesharing product on the Planet if you ask me.
for the Dutchies on the forum.
In the netherlands there are a few very good ISP's wich have USEnet servers with 30 to 50 days retention that you can use with a regular subscription.
XS4All.nl (8Mb) - (server newszilla, experimenteel) or tweakdsl.nl (20Mb).
Maybe there are more but from these 2 i know they are very good.
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Originally Posted by vipoftheworld
Torrent is the best
Gr8 site for newbies mate :)Quote:
Originally Posted by digitrifecta
I use grabit for newsgroup.
I think newsgroup is the better of the two.
Posted this 6 months ago
to this day i still can not understand newsgroups completely
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Originally Posted by T0TAL-RECALL
Same here. As a matter of fact the other day I looked for about two hours for a particular file on BT (at least 20 different sites private and public) and eMule. It wasn't on the newsgroups either. I made a request on the newsgroups and, the next morning, there it was.
While I use BT a lot, I find that the newsgroups has what I want at faster speeds. I'm not worried about who gets the file first because the new stuff usually appears when I'm sleeping. When I get up, there they are on the newsgroups at my full speed.
The newsgroups did have a little bit of a learning curve to them but, I've been using them for so long, it's just become intuitive for me.
I used to use newsgroups but mainly for pics... havent tried it for files of a larger size. My ISP no longer hosts any newsgroups. Tried a free one with little success. Find the learning curve on this format allot harder. I think I will stick with torrents.
I use both but prefer newsgroups because I can max out my download rate and don't need to tie up my connection for any significant amount of time. The primary drawbacks I see with NG are the initial learning curve and the cost (ISPs typically give poor NG access).
same here :(Quote:
Originally Posted by albertadj
It's not the learning curve. It's that fact that you have to put down money for a decent provider to have any success.Quote:
Originally Posted by nonstopsasame here :(Quote:
Originally Posted by albertadj
What are the best news groups for advance music ???
Thanks
what are the nice groups that I should look for to know if my isp news server is good enough or not?
Andreqm - You could check for the large binary groups (e.g. alt.binaries.xxx). Typically, in a newsreader, you can download a list of all the groups your ISP carries and then add them if they exist. However, even if they do exist, another problem with newsgroups is retention. What this means is that some of the very large newsgroups have their contents purged (or unavailable) after a few days. That's another advantage of having a pay server.
newsgroup is old fashion Torrent is future
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by hyca
you're funny.
i'm funnier....:whistling
What is the best pay service for usenet? I am really after a good MP3 one that has the same quality of downloads as Oink. I am not a member of Oink and if I can't get an invite - hint, hint - then I might try newsgroups if they are any good for music.
Filesharing should be free. But the access to newsgroups is not free. So bittorrent is the winner :D
Pay for filesharing? Now that's stupid :sick:
I use it occasionally when there are free trial periods but id rather use bittorrent than pay someone £15 a month to give me stuff which they dont own or have any right to sell.
bittorrent... unless you have money then use newsgroups. No need to worry too much about ratio there.
Well I agree, Newsbin pro is the best reader. I really like their auto-nzb feature where you can just upload an NZB file to a specific directory on your server and it queue's it up and begins to download. I use www.giganews.com for my News Group service. Unlimited is a good thing when you have 24MB of bandwidth at your house ;)
Sometimes if I turn off all the stuff in my office I can actually hear the sucking sound from the internet! :dabs:
WT
erm I use kazaa and its verily fastQuote:
Originally Posted by vipoftheworld
i like uneset because i always get max speed, but torrents most sites are max speed and there free
torrents are easier and free. Unless you want something thats a rare or a specialty use torrents.
Never pay for File Sharing! I thought this was the sites motto... or does this need to be updated... ;)
is it scene releases at usenet. And are the god pre times? Im looking for xvid and tv-ripps scene with nice pretimes.
Bittorrent
i prefer bittorrent
bittorrent, you have to pay for newsgroups which sucks
i will say torrent sites (private one)
nntp if its free(limited for me) otherwise bittorrent
This is simple:
If you've used both, your vote was for newsgroups. If you've used torrents exclusively, your vote went to bittorrent.
There is absolutely no possible way an avid newsgroup user would return to the torrent-world.
I could not agree more :D My name is TorrentGuy but ever since I started using newsgroups I have never used torrents, infact I think they are crap now. Newsgroups are just so much better, you get scene releases, good pre-times, max out your download speed all the time and you can download as much as you want without uploading anything :P You also get people that post dvds and stuff that you wont find on a bittorrent tracker :yup: Its also much more secure than bittorrent :ph34r:Quote:
Originally Posted by Skizo
Not if your isp provides them.Quote:
Originally Posted by ptp5352
So my vote proves you wrong :P Scathing generalisations on the internet generally don't pay off since its such a big place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skizo
I found I could get more music at a better quality than that found on newsgroups from bittorrent while maxing out my connection when downloading scene releases. Oh, and it wouldn't cost me £15 a month.