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Getting lots of very quick takedowns with Usenetserver right now and renewal is due with usenetserver, I'm used to paying about £60/$100 upfront for a year subscription with unlimited downloads and 20 connections/SSL encryption. I usually manage to find what i'm after reposted eventually (most of those with the most complex names seem to stay longer than those called 123456), but it's a hassle i'd like to avoid for the same cost and service.
Any suggested providers for me to check out?
You need another provider in addition to UsenetServer as a backup to fill in missing articles, Tweaknews and Blocknews are what I use most of the time.
I had trouble with eweka... using extremeusenet now. works fine
I also use Tweak for backup block usage, and Easynews for unlimited at 10 bucks a month. I especially like the web interface for Easynews they give for 14 day trial.
"The Best" is in the eye of the beholder.
Search the forums - and come to your own conclusions...
I've been using tweaknews for ~18 month and only got a few incompletes. However since they no longer accept paypal, I've switched to usenetbucket. Been testing them for a week - so far, so good.
frugal seems to get a few take downs lately, more then i've ever seen before, I'm in the market for a new provider for sure.
just for the record, at least one of the providers mentioned in posts above, don't seem to offer "unlimited" plans. doing my homework right now.
Takedowns, both in type, quickness, and frequency, vary widely from server/service to server/service, to include what 'type' of material you're interested in, and most obviously, the type and depth of obfuscation the poster uses (or doesn't use).
So you can continue to chase after your particular needs, maybe find some poster or site that fills that need (or not), or come to the conclusion that anything you do get is by hit or miss, or jump around from provider to provider like it appears you're doing. In short, it's a jungle out there.
However, I've said this before and it's been awhile since I've rung my particular bell, but since the dissolution of 'the matrix' some two years ago, and for several years, almost a good decade before that, and certainly back to 'day zero' on most usenet plants (i.e., Aug08 or thereabouts) I've posted at least 1TB/month (so my calculator figures some 72TB during that period), which I check the most recent pretty heavily, and the older stuff at random, to which zero (0) has ever been targeted, yet a fair amount has been on the 'hit list' at one time or the other, and those other posts have gone down the rabbit hole (while mine are still there).
So I've come to the conclusion that most posters who get targeted fail basic smarts, or are 'going after the bucks' with private websites and super-encrypted/super-obfuscated postings (you know, those 32+ nonsense character posts). Okay, that's one way to go I guess.
Are you downloading all that which you posted? Sure it will come up still on searches but that doesn't mean jack. Even checking a NZB isn't a guarantee as some servers will report that they have the article during the check when in fact it won't. Unless you are downloading everything you have posted, which wouldn't make sense anyway since you already have it, how can you go around making blanket statements like "zero takedowns ever" and be 100% sure?Quote:
Originally Posted by Beck38
My advice to people is to get 1 or 2 paid providers: 1 Euro and 1 US. Then supplement your main server(s) with free ones. I have been doing this for years and rarely have issues since I have 5 or 6 different tier one servers I am pulling from. If you run into a hiccup, sign up for a free trial with a server that doesn't use the same tier one servers that you already have to get the missing pieces. There is no such thing as "best unlimited provider" anymore, there just isn't.
I use usenet server and its works great
I use tweaknews and they have been great so far.
Supernews works great for me.
Newsdemon $20.14(£11.79) deal every four months, auto renew. Lot of takedowns on popular stuff if you dont grab quick(not as bad as astraweb!) but by far the cheapest i have used and i have been around the block.
Yeah well I actually switched back to AW because this popular belief is seemingly wrong. I can get Boardwalk Empire (an HBO high-profile show) fine and I'm talking about post in clear from about 1 year ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frits
A lot depends, as the internet is not exactly super-speedy across the globe if one is doing high speed/high capacity transfers, in where you are vrs where the usenet service servers are.
In my case, the two closest (both 'internet' wise as well as geographically) are Astra/US and Giganews/US, and it doesn't take a degree in finance as to which is 'cheaper'. I get tons of (captured) pay-TV fare off Astra/US, although in fact the series 'True Detective' (again, captures which were recoded down to 720P and about 10-20% of their original 'broadcast' size) were 'whacked' in just a few days back whenever.
But now that it's out in Blu (almost 30+ days at this point), I'm sure that in the next 30+ days or so we'll be seeing a flood of full-BD as well as BD-recodes start to flood the pipes, either obfuscated (or not), or encrypted (or not). The reviews I've read (so far) put the video and audio quality as 10+/superb, something that was hinted at in the (basically) low-grade captures that were originally posted.
Long time user of astraweb(2yrs+). Then all of a sudden, basically if you didnt grab releases straight away, they were gone. Went around the block a while, same story but grabbed the newsdemon(Works out approx just £3 a month) deal. Stuff still removed if you are not quick enough. Test and trial. Still get a lot of old skool films from the eighties as they got 2000+ day retention. Depends what you are after really. Get full speed constantly(19meg a sec(on my Vm 152meg connection)) downloads SSL. Never been down for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by chakaraYeah well I actually switched back to AW because this popular belief is seemingly wrong. I can get Boardwalk Empire (an HBO high-profile show) fine and I'm talking about post in clear from about 1 year ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frits
In my opinion supernews and tweaknews are popular in terms of less takedowns.
@Asari, I just switched from Tweak to Usenet Bucket. Your post is dated July 2nd. I would be interested in the rate of incompletes and dmca takedowns you are experiencing.
Any other Usenetbucket clients I would be interested in hearing your opinion as well.
Thank you
astraweb and usenetserver work well for me
Been using TweakNews for about a year now renewing every 3 month period and they email exclusive renew offers that are cheaper then prices offered for newbies. Never had any problems
Just a note, Supernews does not allow VPN or proxy connections to their servers. Could not find in any other usenet provider' TOS.
I'm using both AstraWeb and EasyNews.
I've always been pretty happy with Giganews.
UsenetServer - Cheap and reliable for me
Hi, I am currently with newshosting and its all-in-one grabber, but it happens a lot, that files (new ones) even after 4 day age still can't be downloaded, got damn "connection issue' for each posts .. any ideas ?
Use a Euro provider.Quote:
Originally Posted by flash43cl208
Well, they have to block the IP/range so that's an inaccurately broad statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalone
You need a backup provider. You also need to do some research by reading posts on this forum. Your backup account should probably be a geo-diverse block variant... research.Quote:
Originally Posted by flash43cl208
AstraWeb... cheap and reliable for me. And been around for a while.
Astraweb via the kleverig link.
Try maximumusenet, been using them forever. No complaints.
I've used giganews in the past, but there were too many takedowns lately. I've changed to xlusenet.nl. It still doesn't have everything but it's better then the US alternatives.
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I dunno Astraweb has been poor recently for me, or maybe I'm just too slow at getting to the files... I hate to admit it but I've been using torrents behind a VPN!... oh the shame!!
i use astraweb....
I'm using NewsDemon servers and since Friday (19 Sept. 2014) I can't download anything with NewsBinPro. All bars turns red and at the logging section it says that not such article found or failed to retrieve article from server. Does anyone know what's happen with NewsDemon servers?
Check your NewsDemon account to make sure it's still active. They apparently "lost" a drive with some peoples' account info. See this Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comm...r_plan_and_cc/
Can anyone advise how Supernews compares to Astraweb ?
same shit, everything has missing blocks
Missing 'blocks' or completely missing (DMCA'd), there's a big difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2501
There's still, in this age of error checking uploaders (JBinup) way too many folks are still using creaky old PowerPost and it's variants on flacky or semi-flacky server plants that either skip (or fade) the post in their own plant, or have major distribution (propagation) problems out to other usenet servers. And then they (the posters) don't do due diligence in propagation checking to (or thru) major plants (like Asta, Giga, Unsnet-News, Blocknews).
Supernews is Giganews. I would choose neither Supernews nor Astraweb. They are both bad IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by motta_lunn