Ok here it goes...
if you're an moderate downloader then it will take you a few bucks to get around, you'll just need a Credit card or a paypal account to subscribe to one of the Servers, my recommendation is
Usenet-news, they have Pay-per-Download system, you'll pay an advance money to buy your choice of block(download amount) or you can pay-per-month which is more beneficial if your a big downloader and you download like 100GB's per months.
In Block system you will use your blocks when you need them and it wont run out, no monthly charges, but it will be more costly if you download too much, in monthly system whether you use the server or not by end of the month you must renew your subscription so if you pay 40$ and you dont use it its a waste but that 40$ on block system can buy you almost 300Gb which will not go away.
As i said many times, Newsgroups are headache free, some of headaches which newsgroups removes:
- No more seeding: means no more running your computer 24/7
- No more double space occupancy: meaning you wont need the actual rar files after extracting them for further Seeding which will save a lot of HDD space.
- Files are pred faster then BT
- Speeds are Maxed out every time.
- Privacy's are more reliable
Best news grabber or download program IMO is
NewsLeecher, easy to get around and dose lots of things for you.
The only negative points in NewsGroups i can see is:
- There is no actual support for releases unlike trackers where members can comment on releases and notify you if something is wrong with the release, but that wont be a big deal if you get your updates from other sites or any private tracker.
- You get corrupt archives, remember how files are corrupted on open indexers you get something similar BUT there is a way around. there are Part files(.par files), these .par files are there to reconstruct the corrupted archive, usually these files are listed among releases and here is where Newsleecher comes in handy, NL has a built in repair system, usually you must use another program to repair corrupt archive with par files but in NL it monitors the archive and downloads the par files if necessary and repairs it.
There are two ways to grab/download files you want:
- 1st option would be downloading headers using the grabber program to get a listing of available files, think of headers as release titles, when you go to a tracker you see a release name you click it and post opens where you then need to download the .torrent file, that .torrent file as you know has the release information, it tell the torrent downloader program what files to download from some1 using tracker, in Newsgroups its a bit harder to just click and download, you must 1st connect to the server which you paid for then group who uploads files to the server, these groups are titled for their specialty, some are famous for games and mostly titled alt.bin.games, we take as you want to download Crysis, you connect to that group and download their headers/release title, it will take some time and will download all titles on their group(you can choose to download the new files only) and then you will see the file names but not as a single . torrent file, it will show you what you usually see in .torrent files(**.01, 02, **.rar and so on) you must find out how many parts a release has and down them all and the rest is like torrenting.
- OR you can ignore all Crap talk that i said about option one
and goto header/bin indexers sites like this and search, just like any torrent indexers, the only thing is they are not so fast to index, it will take upto 24 hours to index a new file.
- ORRRRRRRRRRRRr you can ignore both options and goto the beautiful FST's NZB section and get what you want which indexes all new/old files at speed of no1 else thanks to our great NZB posters :fst:
