Good free Usenet servers?

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Alain O

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The free ones were nice while they lasted, too much downtime to be worth the hassle now considering good pay servers are ~$10/month now or less.
 
It really isn't that hard..

Get a client, I'm not going to go over that here.. Use some google-fu and the search here.

Open said client, add server. Enter the details provided in one of the emails from the 'free host' I know they sent it..

And then beat yourself up for not even attempting to help yourself on google.. Then write down the date and reason for your self imposed black eye.

It's easier than setting up an pop/imap email account in Thunderbird.

Once your done with that, hope you took some good notes and come back and post this tutorial you speak of.


 
EyeBaller said:
The free ones were nice while they lasted, too much downtime to be worth the hassle now considering good pay servers are ~$10/month now or less.
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But that's exactly what I'm trying to figure out. They're all down or is this my ISP blocking access?

I've seen a lot of people even on this thread stating that free servers are unstable (which I agree) but the thing is that since 1st August all of them seem to be down for me, any time of the day

How do I know if that's my ISP blocking access or not?

These are the command lines I'm running on the batch after setting up the IPv6 tunnel on Hurricane:

Code: 
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=1119  connectaddress=news.ipv6.eweka.nl connectport=119
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=1118 connectaddress=newszilla6.xs4all.nl connectport=119
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=1117 connectaddress=reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl connectport=119

This always worked fine for me, I just run those commands and them set GrabIt! to 127.0.0.1 on ports 1117, 1118 & 1119. But now it just doesn't work anymore.
 
For IPv6:

Signup for IPv6: http://go6.net/

You will get a username and password, and a server to use, you OWN specific one.

Next, download the Gateway6 client, to create your tunnel for IPv6.

Then grab http://www.sabnzbd.org/ SABnzbd+, the only pure IPv6 compatiable NG grabber....don't believe, try connecting with other clients.

You must have IPv6 enabled and a tunnel created to use those NG servers...there's my answer, if you can't figure it out, well then more speed for me. IPv6 free servers are really great, just as could as the pay-for newsservers, minus the retention, but 100 days, well just grab new and hot stuff with it, after all that's what the tunnel is about so you can't be tracked, right :)

If you are successful in setting IPv6, the Turtle at the top of this page will flap it's wings.
http://www.kame.net/
 
I think even if people know they will not post it. I personally do not know any 'free' newsservers. There probably are some, but as soon as they get posted a lot of newbs rush on it with 20 connections or so and then the server will be down in no time. People are keeping it more to themselves nowadays....

Thank the newbs for that.
 
CBen said:
http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=speed&order=DESC
from here few works without enabling IPv6 or without IPv6 tunneling but not getting speed ..after connected stop and when start not more thn 10-50 KB that sux....but im not sure if i enable IPv6 maybe i'll get better speed..or this speed always like this...
anyone................................
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90+% of them servers will be text only and read only servers. The few you will find that have binaries will only carry a very limited few groups and usually none of the bigger more popular ones like a.b.movies.divx and the like. Speeds will suck and completion will as well. The only good free servers out there are the couple ipv6 testing servers and those will only last for a limited time.
 
The ipv6 has been working, all 3 are working for me at the moment. xsnews was down for several days but has started working again.
Did you check your IP address whatismyipv6.net ?
If that looks fine, then tracert news.ipv6.eweka.nl to see if/where there is a network issue.
 
Pretty much if you relly want to use usenet, your going to have to pay for a subscription.

My ISP offers service, but it is pretty shoddy, 8gb a month, 2 connections.

Check out your ISP... otherwise, you can waste your time for a while looking for a free one, but i suspect it will be just that... a waste of time.
 
Eweka was/is working but xsnews as you can see below isn't working since yesterday:

traffic.php
 
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