Best unlimited usenet providers?

[Dameatball]

I've highlighted the important part of my post above. If I need to be explicit I'd follow the advice in many, many threads here and get an Astraweb unlimited account and a Tweaknews (or similar) block account to set as backup. It's not exactly what I use but close enough (I also have a tertiary block provider but as quoted above it's not normally required).



If you can't get what you want then I'd post specific questions about specific NZB's because the above combo will service 99% of the needs of 99% of the population (and I know this with statistical certainty because I know everything).

I'm happy with Astraweb EU and TweakNews just as described above. Tweaknews as fill and it's been working fine for over a year now.

Tweaknews=high winds
Should be avoided at all costs

[Dameatball]

I'm happy with UNS, but I don't know why there's 1100 + day retention when everything's gone in 24 hours

High winds dmca's in under 60 min now and now own s huge portion of the euro providers (now resellers) Cambrium is the latest. Very quickly becoming a monopoly.

[trickyrat]

I'm happy with UNS, but I don't know why there's 1100 + day retention when everything's gone in 24 hours

High winds dmca's in under 60 min now and now own s huge portion of the euro providers (now resellers) Cambrium is the latest. Very quickly becoming a monopoly.

I'd love to see how this is affecting their business, though? Surely the more you "pull", and the more quickly, then the more quickly you lose customers...

I mean, from a customer perspective, what's the point of being on Usenet, if all you want is legal content? All of that stuff is freely available from multiple other sources.

Kinda wonder how much life is left in Usenet..?

[Beck38]

Kinda wonder how much life is left in Usenet..?

You just aren't being 'tricky' enough, 'trickyrat'.

The amount of traffic on usenet (there are several traffic analysis sites out there) is larger than ever. You kinda have to 'pick your poison' on which hoops you're willing and able to jump through to get what you want.

[Dolfan-Neil]

Tweaknews is now owned by Highwinds, but I haven't seen their DMCA enforcement yet. Time will tell, but I've already signed up for another European host that currently isn't affiliated with Highwinds. There isn't many left.

[madjock]

Tweaknews is now owned by Highwinds, but I haven't seen their DMCA enforcement yet. Time will tell, but I've already signed up for another European host that currently isn't affiliated with Highwinds. There isn't many left.

Really I think I left them the other year just for that. But I personally think it matters not where you get stuff from, if its 1 or 3 days, its gone. If its not its more to do with the show or movie itself.

I used to look for xxx days, this means nothing nowadays really, unless its passworded and pretty safe, but now I just go for the cheapest at 120 Mbit and that does. The majority of stuff gets reposted.

I find myself downloading German releases TV and Movies and remuxing the audio to just English, as they seem to post a lot more.

[Dolfan-Neil]

But I personally think it matters not where you get stuff from, if its 1 or 3 days, its gone. If its not its more to do with the show or movie itself.

I used to look for xxx days, this means nothing nowadays really, unless its passworded and pretty safe, but now I just go for the cheapest at 120 Mbit and that does.

Sickbeard in my experience is extremely reliable, so as I have it set to check hourly, I tend to get TV shows within an hour of being indexed, so I don't usually have any issues.

Movies are another story. I prefer to download SD DVD images and Couch Potato hasn't exactly been the most reliable so I find that even with the automated searching hourly, I still occasionally have to manually download a movie and I only do that once every 24 hours, so it could be a day since the movie was indexed that I download it. Tweaknews (I used to buy 250GB blocks) used to be dependable for downloading that content, but I was afraid this Highwinds takeover would impact that, so I've jumped on a deal for a year of unlimited with another European provider that isn't owned by Highwinds.

Actually as a result of being on the unlimited provider and have a larger 320GB ISP cap (used to be 80GB), I have switched the TV shows to High Def instead of SD. Plex and my Chromecast used to upscale it so that the video looked good, but by doing the HD, I don't need to do the upscaling anymore and the audio is better.

[trickyrat]

Kinda wonder how much life is left in Usenet..?

You just aren't being 'tricky' enough, 'trickyrat'.

The amount of traffic on usenet (there are several traffic analysis sites out there) is larger than ever. You kinda have to 'pick your poison' on which hoops you're willing and able to jump through to get what you want.

Care to elaborate?

We have the NZB section here on FST, and a small number of other sites mentioned in this thread: https://filesharingtalk.com/threads/4...ar-index-sites.

I'm prepared to "jump through a few hoops", but that's kinda difficult when you don't even now what they are...

Apart from the sites mentioned above, I've no idea how people get past the obfuscation and password protection that seems to be prevalent on a lot of content on usenet these days. Any help appreciated.

PM me if you don't want to give advice publically.

Cheers.

[Zoidbort]

I have always loved Astra but lately I am getting evenings where my download speed, regardless of the server, is going on 350kb/s vs the usual 6.6MB/s.
Anyone else?

[Beck38]

I have always loved Astra but lately I am getting evenings where my download speed, regardless of the server, is going on 350kb/s vs the usual 6.6MB/s.
Anyone else?

Going the Amsterdam will be slow 24/7 from your location (I'm right across the water from you). The San Jose server (US) is slow in anything other than during the day. BTW, the submarine bandwidth to Vancouver Island is a bit constricted, if the Canadian Government had pushed for allowing FLAG to build a trans-pacific landing station on the western shores of the island some 10+ years ago, it might have improved things quite a bit as they would have build a new multi-terabit cable from Vancouver B.C. to Victoria feed into it. But it was 'not to be'.

Try setting up your system to d/l in the early morning to afternoon and you'll get better speeds.

Care to elaborate?

There are about as many schemes as there are sands on the beach. Okay, maybe not THAT many, but there are tons,

And there are lots of postings that have virtually no 'hints' whatsoever as to who posted them, and how to figure out how to obtain the passwords (if they are passworded). They are simply 'private' groups that want to stay that way,

Otherwise, one has to glean whatever one can, from the file-name (maybe the group or poster has a 'hint' there?), or perhaps has used the rename function to hide the actual name, or some other wacky thing.

You just have to beat on it until it 'yields' the trick, IF it will at all (like I said, lots are simply locked up tight and there is no way to get it unless one gets some kind of way into the 'private club').

But there is a lot of material right out 'almost' in the open that one can get, either from one of the indexing sites or from trolling any of the major binary newsgroups. It's not like the 'old days'.