Newsgroups (whats the best news downloader)

sid · 28 Oct 2006 at 20:07

Bobbler said:
NZB Omatic does me fine

Anjow · 28 Oct 2006 at 20:22

Grabit for me. They've got a limited number of free searches per day as well, I only ever need one.

SexyGreyFox · 28 Oct 2006 at 21:33

Newsbin Pro

tang0 · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:03

newzleecher

whitecrook · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:25

you'll have to pay whatever service you use. It's the only way

SexyGreyFox · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:37

whitecrook said:
you'll have to pay whatever service you use. It's the only way

He's asking about Newsreaders but there are some ISP's that do have quite good servers.
NTL is one and my mate swears by PIPEX.
However, Easynews 4tw.

marc_howarth · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:37

Grabit always worked perfectly for me

Ben · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:48

I use Newsbin Pro, and have started dabbling with SABnzbd too, happy with both.

Smit · 29 Oct 2006 at 00:06

I found Newsleecher to be the best IMO

Tired a number of others but Newsleecher seemed to be the one that suited me best. It's not overly expensive (around £20 a year I believe) and new beta versions come out every month or so which keeps it running nice and any bugs are fixed quickly.

Fishman · 29 Oct 2006 at 00:13

dmpoole said:
He's asking about Newsreaders but there are some ISP's that do have quite good servers.
NTL is one and my mate swears by PIPEX.
However, Easynews 4tw.

PIPEX although only seems to be 2 connections at ~20 KB/s each has very very long retention (10 GB/month free). I cant remember what but it is >1 month. ntl is reasonable, better speed, but poorer completion and retention.

I have access to both

only just started re using them the other day tho

mr.bond · 29 Oct 2006 at 01:14

dmpoole said:
He's asking about Newsreaders but there are some ISP's that do have quite good servers.
NTL is one and my mate swears by PIPEX.
However, Easynews 4tw.

Pipex - I used to be a customer of theirs, you get 10gb per month of newsgroup service (including group updates), and have to pay for more, was 5gb for £3 or something similar.

Now I use a different ISP, who has an excellent newsgroup service for free (although you do pay a 'premium' price for broadband :cool:

) and they are 100% unlimited, and uncapped.

no_1_dave · 29 Oct 2006 at 01:47

I use Newsleecher, its by far the best.
My ISP is Zen, clock up over 200Gb a month sometimes manly from their newsgroups. Retention is only 1 week but thats usually fine, if I find something older I just sign up for a 3 day free trial from a random premium newsgroup provider lol

Jimi · 29 Oct 2006 at 03:00

Been using Newsleecher for well over a year now, couldn't live without it to be honest. Whatever you do, don't use NZB-O-Matic, it's a complete Pile-O-****.

SexyGreyFox · 29 Oct 2006 at 08:50

mr.bond said:
Now I use a different ISP, who has an excellent newsgroup service for free (although you do pay a 'premium' price for broadband ) and they are 100% unlimited, and uncapped.

Who's that then?

no_1_dave · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:00

dmpoole said:
Who's that then?

You get unlimited newsgroup traffic with Zen newsgroups...
Not sure who he uses though!

hyper_piper45 · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:21

I use newsleecher and usenethosting.com