DVD or Xvid?Quote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajor
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DVD or Xvid?Quote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajor
That's just DVDs, XviDs & DivXs you can multiply exponentially (factor of 10 wouldn't be far off the mark, prob higher).Quote:
Originally Posted by G-ForceDVD or Xvid?Quote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajor
Giganews now has 8 months retention, I can grab a DVD off giganews usenet & seed back at ScT before the main swarm has even started (if I wanted to of course - I never do though - it's just a speed comparison), and I can max my seedbox 24/7 never mind my home connection :D
If you really do want more info, then ask in the usenet forum here, having done usenet for 10+ years & torrents for 5 years, even if I put all the torrent sites together it doesn't match up to usenet, and if I said over half of a million MP3 albums then all your music is taken care of too.
The best thing about torrents is not the scene content, but user content, FLAC, untouched DVDs & DVD rips of rare shit etc, strange little apps that are kept alive at unusual places such as pro audio torrents and Audionews etc.
If really interested, keep the topic going and I will answer :)
When you guyz talk about usenet, i always remember my terrible experience with usenext, it was such awful that i havent even used 9 gb quota of mine at that time... Didnt have time to use giganews though, maybe i will nowadays
WOW, i have really missed the boat on this one. I have heard of Usenet but was always of the belief that it was slow to pick up 0day stuff (like days slow).Quote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajorThat's just DVDs, XviDs & DivXs you can multiply exponentially (factor of 10 wouldn't be far off the mark, prob higher).Quote:
Originally Posted by G-Force
Giganews now has 8 months retention, I can grab a DVD off giganews usenet & seed back at ScT before the main swarm has even started (if I wanted to of course - I never do though - it's just a speed comparison), and I can max my seedbox 24/7 never mind my home connection :D
If you really do want more info, then ask in the usenet forum here, having done usenet for 10+ years & torrents for 5 years, even if I put all the torrent sites together it doesn't match up to usenet, and if I said over half of a million MP3 albums then all your music is taken care of too.
The best thing about torrents is not the scene content, but user content, FLAC, untouched DVDs & DVD rips of rare shit etc, strange little apps that are kept alive at unusual places such as pro audio torrents and Audionews etc.
If really interested, keep the topic going and I will answer :)
So do i just pay the monthly fee of $19.95 or what ever and i get access to all of there movies etc?
Well, I know my ISP (Comcast) provides free access to Usenet through GigaNews.
i can say that tti has the best collection i have ever seen on any torrent tracker, except for demonoid which has some crappy speeds.
next comes kg and cinemageddon for rare non-mainstream stuff.
while ptn and tc.eu are still growing but they are doing pretty well.
i hope ptn emerges out the winner in few months time.
I use Giganews as well, by far the best. And Sgt. I couldn't believe it the other day when I got the email about the retention, a nice jump from 200 days (which I believe was the best out of all the others) to now 240 days.
^ Agreed, Giganews is hands down the best provider I have ever used.
And, of course, Giganews has all my movie needs covered.
I consider myself somewhat of a minimalist (meh not really) and I use Usenet for mostly HD, but also DVDrs and XviDs. However, sometimes I can't find stuff on Usenet (which is rare, considering I don't put in a request for it) and usually it's on KaraGarga.
And yes, eight months of retention is crazy. :D
Never any speed issues, don't have to seed back (it makes me feel good inside knowing that I made the right choice with Usenet because my download speed is 1.7mb/s and upload around 40kb/s), and NZBs.
Now if only it was possible to be able to pre things on Usenet :)
Think about it .. and I was thinking about this the other day ..
Why is it that topsites and torrent sites get busted while Usenet lives on? Usenet has a backbone of about 1000000000000TB (maybe I'm making that up, but trust me thats a lot) and nothing happens to them .. and Usenet's backbone is obviously and most definitely bigger then any dump site I have ever been on.
Take that. :P
I think i am going to have to jump on this bandwagon. So what do i do? Do i just pay the $19.95 a month?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gekko
Usenet is excellent, but I often find it too hard to find NZB's of what I want. I can use sites like NZBsRus, where they post pre-made NZB files, but when using a place like Binsearch where you have to select about 100 files to create an NZB, thats where it gets confusing for me.
I guess if NZB's were as easy to find as torrents, I would use Usenet more. Any tips?
rev tt
$19.95 is an arbitrary number. There are other providers then Giganews, don't get me wrong, I just feel (and I'm sure Sgt. and others here do also) that Giganews is THE BEST.Quote:
Originally Posted by G-Force
(By the way, I think it's $19.95 for the first month then $24.95 afterwards. :))
Your best bet is to check out the Usenet section.
PM me if you have anymore questions mate.
GXice: What do you mean? While NZBs are somewhat like torrents, they are not exactly the same. (obviously)
You don't need to download a NZB for everything that you want to download. I usually either
a) update headers frequently
b) use NewsLeecher (or BinSearch if you don't have NewsLeecher) with SuperSearch and download from there.
You do not need to use NZBs for everything you need .. in fact, the reason people bitch about the pretimes of things on Usenet is because of the slow NZB creation .. however, things are uploaded to Usenet but up to a couple hours later is the NZB made. This is why headers are helpful.
Did that help or did I not answer you question at all? :)
/me ponders
How so? Limited to certain areas or not?
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Originally Posted by respawn40
i use demonoid,zamunda,scc,tl
it's enough,everything can get in this trackers
For the top of the line @ Giganews it's $19.95 for the first month and $29.95 from there on out.
I dont have unlimited monthly download quota, so I can't really download headers all the time. It chews up too many MB's. Other than that, I'll looking into NewsLeecher. Thanks. :yup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gekko
great site for movies is goem-more than 5k torrents
most tracker have lots of movies depends what are you looking for
tehconnection is the only one I know specialised on movies :D
I've still got their email saying retention is going to be 90 days :PQuote:
Originally Posted by deadalive1
Normally limited retention, speed capped & connections reduced.Quote:
Originally Posted by respawn40
Don't take an ISPs version of Giganews over a purchased account from Giganews, two totally different things.
Can't disagree with any of that :whistlingQuote:
Originally Posted by Gekko
a.b.kg rocks big time as well :cool:
You need a client (like utorrent is to torrents, newsleecher & newsbin are clients I use for usenet), Giganews is akin to a BT Site, there are other options of which all are prob cheaper, but retention & speed are words you will get to know and Giganews just beats all others on them 2 scores hands down.Quote:
Originally Posted by G-Force
I use newsleecher for searching for files & filenames, and I use Newsbin for downloading headers for my favourite groups as not everything gets reported.
You need a par2 recovery tool for repairing RAR files, but it is no different to downloading from a torrent site - the resultant files are exactly the same.
Once you figure out usenet and how to search properly, you will not look back.
I only use NZBs as a last resort, use the search functions, as not everything gets reported anyway, tons of material is just sitting there not indexed.Quote:
Originally Posted by GXice
Filename search is the best way for beginners, copy the filename from wherever you need to, drop it into your search engine (I use newsleecher with supersearch) and bingo, take BitmeTV eps, it is always on usenet first, find the filename from the torrent, search - highlight - download - unrar, no need to seed back and you can be watching it before others have downloaded it from BitmeTV.
Newzbin.com is a nzb site I use, only because I have done for years, might be better available but I am so used to how they do things it does me.
I think Goem is underrated and is an excellent source for movies. As is Zamunda...The smaller, private movie trackers are nothing in comparison.
I forgot about a.b.kg ahah. ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajor
Thanks mate.
If anyone has any questions, PM Sgt, he seems to know his shit. :P
I myself use .binsearch , newzleech (which is the one I started out on) and Merlin's. And lol @ still having the email with the 90 day retention. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by SgtMajor