Is it possible to use quality Usenet service for free?

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for torrent sites the private trackers require you to maintain a ratio but the speeds are good ~5mbit usely and the pretimes are really good usually not more than a few hours

so i was just wondering if it was possible getting a similar service with usenet?
 
yeah well my ISP has free binarie newsgroups access.
the speed are like 2mbit but i can never find any files. i go in the group with the most articles and there's really anything interesting ohwell
 
fred861 said:
yeah well my ISP has free binarie newsgroups access.
the speed are like 2mbit but i can never find any files. i go in the group with the most articles and there's really anything interesting ohwell
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Trying using NZBs - they're basically a XML file for the newsreader that tell it where to find specific files. NZBsrus.com is probably the easiest to use. Download the NZB and open it with your reader - not all readers support NZB, but most do.
 
I don't think there are any free usenet services that are as robust as the pay services, but then again you may luck out and have an isp that has a decent service that you don't have to pay extra for.
 
because paying 7,50 for a legal service is something different than paying for paysite acces. (dont tell me you didnt mean paysites because self earned acces is allmost impossible to get)
 
hey noob fred861 :P
for me, yes, YottaNews, maximum speed is 16kB/s retention is about 90 days, sign-up 4 free, it's a quality UseNet for Dial-up and ISDN :D.
It's good enough to download eBooks, text...but not good to download DVDs
 
Depends on your definition of quality. My ISP provides newsgroups that, for text purposes, are of very high quality. Good luck getting binaries with them, though.

It's worth it to dish out the money to get an account on a good news server.
 
My ISP (NTL) has newsgroups and I can get some binaries but it is very limited. The speeds are good though, I easily max out my 10M connection.

@satansraiser: is that Helena Bonham Carter in your sig?
 
I use my ISP's newsgroup and it's awesome. I get everything I want. Retention is like 25 days, though. So I just keep up with what's out and get it in the beginning.
 
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