help and advice on trackers and usenet

[piratebot]

nvm

[Detale]

Wow! thanks again Skizo...I went to that Skyck site and ran into all kinds of stuff that I had no idea what it was such as x days of content, posts of x, retention...no idea what any of that means.

if you don't mind my prying into your knowledge on this..

what does the x days of content mean?

Is there one particular one that you would recommend..i went to giganews and checked it out...thought it was pretty good. Is there one that is good, that like some private trackers ensures there are not viruses etc in the d/l's?

if you join one of them does that give you access to everything out there on all usenets or just that particular one

and do you use torrent clients, like utorrent and and no seeding?



Thanks so much...t

ok, I registered at the giganews...what now? how do I find downloads...sorry for my newbiness and ignorrance..t

LOL not a problem man I have giganews and its great. X days is the number of retention days you have with the server of your choice. Giga is like 240 I think meaning you can download a file that is 240 days old.

Go here and read either the newsleecher of grabit tutorial it will explain alot also read the quickpar sticky. Any other problems feel free to get me on MSN

You don't use Utorrent but you use newsleecher or Grabit, personally I use an app called Alt.binz and love it. A good way to understand is these are like utorrent they are the "client" and NZB files are like torrent files and yes No upload at all.

Giga is the news server or service you now have access to any of the files. We have a NZB section here with some really good stuff and there are a few good sites that are free and some that want money but IMO don't pay them.

[Funkin']

Good choice on experimenting with Usenet. You are more than likely going to love it, and won't want to use private trackers. Well, at least the usual 0day/general trackers that are a dime a dozen nowadays. Some specialty ones still come in handy.

I recommend going over to the newsgroups board of this site and just read. You'll find all kinds of information in that board.

[Skiz]

If you don't mind forking over $11+/month, Usenet is the way to go. It is a far superior method of obtaining files than torrents.

Some people, even after experimenting with it find that they would rather download content for free, but even those are few and far between. And even of those, they never choose to revert due to lack of content.

Usenet was around way before private BT trackers. It predates them by some twenty years and releases of apps, TV programs, and the latest films traditionally go to Usenet first. It's always been that way. Usenet and its numerous groups, has many, many more uploaders than any private torrent site.

Now I'm not saying that some BT trackers don't have uploaders that cap TV shows or crack programs and release them exclusively to the site but Usenet is the place for getting releases first. You have to know the right groups, of course, but once you've got your favorite groups entrenched in your newsreader of choice, you'll find everything you need and will be able to download it sooner and faster than if you relied on your private tracker.

Using Giganews and Alt.Binz I have 240+ days of content to download* at max speeds which downloads, fixes, and extracts itself.

* As an example, Newzbin can provide me with approximately 120,000 posts of content** whilst the average on my private trackers is about 10,000. Usenet search engines reveal literally hundreds of thousands of files available.

** That's new and old content. At max speed. All the time. With no need to upload.

There really is no comparison.

Wow! thanks again Skizo...I went to that Skyck site and ran into all kinds of stuff that I had no idea what it was such as x days of content, posts of x, retention...no idea what any of that means.

if you don't mind my prying into your knowledge on this..

what does the x days of content mean?

Is there one particular one that you would recommend..i went to giganews and checked it out...thought it was pretty good. Is there one that is good, that like some private trackers ensures there are not viruses etc in the d/l's?

if you join one of them does that give you access to everything out there on all usenets or just that particular one

and do you use torrent clients, like utorrent and and no seeding?



Thanks so much...t

ok, I registered at the giganews...what now? how do I find downloads...sorry for my newbiness and ignorrance..t

I could explain all this, but you'd still have more and more questions.

You'll be better off just reading about what Usenet is and how it works. You can find answers to terms like retention, posts, etc quite easily.

Perhaps you could start here? - http://www.dvdhelp.us/index.html?htm...html~mainFrame

/moved to File Sharing.

[Twolf13]

Thanks Skizo...i did read for hours last nite..and got started.
I will head to that link you just posted too.
And thanks so much for the other kindly replies and advice...am checking out all the the links now too..

well if anyone saw that question i just deleted, i figured it out after posting...my question tho is on giganews, how do I get grabit to get all the newsgroups instead of a select few thanks in advance..t

[Twolf13]

so far so bad..not liking this at all...seems like it is nickel and diming me to death..chuckling...paid for giganews, (well the trial of 10 days) and then pay, then have to pay for a news search software, tried a free on, grabii and was limited to x amount of searches a day otherwise pay a fee for unlimited searches a day, and so on. did you guys that started with usenet, run into this or did I jump into this the wrong way?
I am learning a lot tho...right now bittorrent seems easier and cheaper by far, but I am sticking with this till i figure it out and if it is as good or better than bittorrent..don't mind the 13 bucks per mo. but the extra here and there, and the second prog i am trying, newsleecher you can't buy but pay x amount per year...
I am not complaining, just that there was more to it than learning it but am learning. thanks to all who have helped and advised, if you have any more advice/insight to offer it would be appreciated..thanks again...t

[piratebot]

nvm

[Skiz]

so far so bad..not liking this at all...seems like it is nickel and diming me to death..chuckling...paid for giganews, (well the trial of 10 days) and then pay, then have to pay for a news search software, tried a free on, grabii and was limited to x amount of searches a day otherwise pay a fee for unlimited searches a day, and so on. did you guys that started with usenet, run into this or did I jump into this the wrong way?
I am learning a lot tho...right now bittorrent seems easier and cheaper by far, but I am sticking with this till i figure it out and if it is as good or better than bittorrent..don't mind the 13 bucks per mo. but the extra here and there, and the second prog i am trying, newsleecher you can't buy but pay x amount per year...
I am not complaining, just that there was more to it than learning it but am learning. thanks to all who have helped and advised, if you have any more advice/insight to offer it would be appreciated..thanks again...t

That's b/c you're trying to use either the Grabit search or Newleecher's super search, or both. Screw both of those. No need for either of them.

Use NZB sites or search engines as mentioned above.

FST also has a good selection here but we only keep files for 70 days.

[Twolf13]

some free newsreaders:
sabnzbd - i use this
grabit
alt.binz

some free search sites:
http://www.newzleech.com/
http://binsearch.info/

not free search indexing site:
newzbin.com - i use this

some nzb sites:
NZBMatrix.com
Merlins-portal.net
Nzbsrus.com

thanks Pirate will give that sabn a try ..grabit worked but it only allows about 5 searches a day and then have to pay for more..alt.bin could not get to work, but will retry now that i have learned a little bit on this newsleech..will try all those sites and software..thanks for the heads up and advice..very much appreciated..t

[Twolf13]

For what it's worth, thanks to all of you who suggested and pointed me to usenet...still using a couple of trackers, but the usenet thing is starting to work better, with all the help and advice you all have given and it is really fast.. while somthing I am d/ling now is d/ling, i am off to learn about opening par2 files..chuckling...a great learning experience...thanks..t