There is free-usenet.com. They limit download speeds to 1 Mbps and make you renew your account every day (you have to fill a captcha to enable access for 24 hours), but are otherwise excellent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stabber
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There is free-usenet.com. They limit download speeds to 1 Mbps and make you renew your account every day (you have to fill a captcha to enable access for 24 hours), but are otherwise excellent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stabber
So its only this one and xsusenet which offers 2mbit i think . In combination we get a max of 300kbps. I think torrents will always be the better (free) choice
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Originally Posted by anonThere is free-usenet.com. They limit download speeds to 1 Mbps and make you renew your account every day (you have to fill a captcha to enable access for 24 hours), but are otherwise excellent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stabber
Can I use a VPN to sign-up for Tweaknews? This will give me different IPs, no?
Sure, but chances are other people have thought of that first :turned:Quote:
Originally Posted by cyf
https://www.usenetbucket.com gives you a free 5gb account for 7 days. Full speed if I recall.
You can re-sign up with a new email account, but I'd suggest you connect using a VPN to get a new IP just in case.
Thanks for this. I will have to scour through this and try out a bunch of them.
Ninja usenet offers 50gb/month trial . Although it states its only for 7 days when you sign up you get 50gb/month
Is anyone still using Newzfinders?
No updates :/
Free Usenet-servers do exist!
You donīt need any username or password, but the server-addresses are well
kept secrets.
Why?
Because of this free servers support binary-Usenet-UPLOADS (posting) too.
For free Usenet-DOWNLOAD use a new IP and good trashmail, then create two
accounts: One on Hitnews, the second on Xennews. Hitnews gives you 30 ports
valid for 3 days, and Xennews gives you 20 ports valid for 2 days.
Using 50 (!) parallel ports, all your DOWNLOAD needs are satisfied - guaranteed!
The Usenet-problem is not free downloading, the problem is Usenet-binary-UPLOAD for
free. For using normal UPLOAD-trial-accounts, you need a credit-card-number. Give your
number away, and your anonymity is gone!
The free UPLOAD-servers are not very fast. Start your UPLOADS in the evening - go to
bed - and next morning itīs done!
And - of course - any binary-UPLOADER uses this servers for DOWNLOADS.
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Originally Posted by gizmo
I don't understand, do you need a secret server address or do you have to get a free trial with a credit card? :unsure:Quote:
The Usenet-problem is not free downloading, the problem is Usenet-binary-UPLOAD for
free. For using normal UPLOAD-trial-accounts, you need a credit-card-number. Give your
number away, and your anonymity is gone!
In any case, if there are ways to post articles for free, however slow, then that's (great) news to me. I thought none of the free services would ever allow it due to spam.
Usenet is older than Internet, and in the 80s we used it as discussion-platform only. Usenet-"articles" are short text-snippets (50-100kb). We sent this "articles" to theme-"groups" stored on thousands redundant servers around the world. Users could subscribe to theme-groups, they are interested in.Quote:
I don't understand, do you need a secret server address or do you have to get a free trial with a credit card?
In any case, if there are ways to post articles for free, however slow, then that's (great) news to me. I thought none of the free services would ever allow it due to spam.
Over the years data-speed becomes faster and faster, and the need for storing other things than short text-files came up. We found a way using the old 80s-article-structure for posting software, music, and videos:
Binary-Usenet was born.
(So a ZIP or RAR-file contains thousands of short 80s-"articles")
Today, in Usnenet-Forums you can find the same things, you find in OneClickHoster-Forums too. But all the Usenet-files are online for 3 years minimum and have thousands of mirrors around the world!
If you want to do secure uploads to a OneClickHoster, you can use VPNs from Asia or Africa.
But for Uploading to Usenet-servers, the providers want a subscription - normally.
(And a VPN is completely useless, if they have your Credit-Card-Number)
So the answer of your question is:
For doing Usenet-Uploads they want your data. (Credit Card - Pay Pal - Bank Account)
But Usenet-Uploaders want to keep their anonymity!
There are providers who allow signup via Crypto currencies though. And you can use pre-paid credit cards. I think there are some providers who sell block accounts that allow posting, so you could get a cheap block with unlimited uploading.
As I know, you need only a server address.Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
Yes I am but not their actual application. I have xsusenet.com, Hitnew and Newsfinders which I have been using for free for the last 3-4 years without issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stabber
Created a task in Task Scheduler that executes a little program I wrote that registers a new user account with Hitnews every 2-3 days with the top 100 most popular first and surnames which it uses as the usernames and email addresses.
Used my domain name and setup sub domains like proxy, host etc and pointed the MX record to Mailnesia which are throw away addresses. Mailnesia auto accepts registration links and clicks the URL to accept.
The program then updates my SABNZBD with the new details and restarts the client. I have two backup block accounts which where 200GB and I have only used about 90GB of them.
As Newsfinders use Hitnews but has different IP connections I have multiple connections setup using both Hitnews and Newsfinders and max out my connection without issues.
It's free and it works much like a paid service so I am happy.
Hitnews I have downloaded: Total: 729.5 GB
Newsfinders I have downloaded: Total: 738.8 GB
thanks for the tip on Mailnesia
i use the free hitnews trials also..
easyusenet trial also..just need to find an online sms service.
I tried the Hitnews free trial sign-up to try to grab some missing articles but bo joy :cry:
Ditto-it seems to charge 1 Euro for a 1 week trial now :( Not good.Quote:
Originally Posted by r3tr0mkv
All good things come to an end ;)
my isp doesnt have IPv6
Neither does mine, despite having been in business for almost 25 years. Here are some tunnelbrokers you can try.
I think all IPv6 "test" Usenet servers have closed, though?Quote:
A tunnelbroker is a service that gives you access to the IPv6 Internet by encapsulating packets inside IPv4 ones and tunneling them between two points, somewhat similar to a VPN (but providing neither authentication nor encryption). The following tunnelbrokers use 6in4: protocol 41 encapsulation and static tunnels.
- https://tunnelbroker.net/ - from Hurricane Electric. Gives you a /64 prefix out of the box and /48 upon request. Relays all over the world. Requires a pingable IPv4 address to set up the tunnel. Dynamic updates are supported.
- https://tb.ip4market.ru/ - from IP4market. Gives you a /48 prefix. Relay in Russia. Asks for a phone number upon registration, but doesn't use it for anything. Dynamic updates are supported.
- https://tb.netassist.ua/ - from NetAssist. Gives you a /48 prefix. Relay in Ukraine. Dynamic updates are supported.
- https://freetransit.net/en/tunnel-broker-ipv6 - from freetransit.net (AS212895). Gives you a /56 or /64 prefix depending on your choice. Relays in several countries. Untested by me.
You can calculate how many addresses will be available to you with the formula 2^(128-x) where 'x' is the prefix size. The usual practice is to assign one /48 per customer, and let them divide in smaller /64 subnets as they please.
Anyway, I have tested all of these and they worked fine. Setup is easy and only involves running a few commands, but additional help is available if required. The only downside was high latency as a result of not having any relays close enough to my country. If you set up the tunnel in your router, you can have everything in your LAN receive IPv6 addresses from your allocated prefix transparently. In practice, this may be the only way to achieve that for more than one computer or at all, since 6in4 and NAT don't work well together. OpenWrt in particular has built-in tunnelbroker.net support, which solves the problem of having to reconfigure the tunnel whenever your external IPv4 address changes.
Thas not good.
Yeah, I think xs4all may have been the last...they finally shut down theirs earlier this year :(
XS Usenet is the only free one I know still in operation. Free-Usenet is gone, Just4Today is gone, nntp.pw is gone; free trials either are gone or require a valid credit card for verification. Almost like offering free access wasn't a good business model :P
If you have a bank that allows you to create unlimited virtual credit card numbers you can still sign up for those free trials... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
Well, I don't have a credit card, unreal or otherwise :emo:
Also, it seems I was wrong, as Usenet.farm still has a no-questions-asked 10 GB free trial (but disposable e-mail addresses are blocked).
I was able to get a free subscription on xsusenet. Thanks.
And now it's back :)Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
XS Usenet
So long, and thanks for all the articles :)Quote:
Free Usenet retiring January 1
As of January 1, 2023 XS Usenet will be retiring its Free Usenet service.
Our Free Usenet service has always been our way of giving back to the community, something we have happily done for many years. There are however high costs associated in human resources and infrastructure with providing this service.
After over a decade of offering Free Usenet service to the community we have decided to completely shutdown our free service. Effective immediately, no new signups or support inquiries will be accepted and as of January 1 all Free Usenet subscriptions on our platform will be terminated.
The funds that we'll be freeing up will be deployed towards our capital expenditure budget for 2023 to support further product development in the VPN and Cloud Storage sector.
We appreciate your understanding and wish you a healthy and happy holiday season.
https://test.xsnews.com/ :ninja:
Do accounts become available on the reg?
I have no idea, but I just sent you mine since I haven't had time to try it anyway.