Author Topic: Newsgroups thread (guide) (Read 73666 times)

wacko · « **Reply #80 on:** April 2, 2011, 06:40:56 pm »

Quote from: Kashinoda on March 29, 2011, 12:12:35 am

Sorry if I came across dickage mate, just making sure he's getting the most out of his connection as with cable (rather than ADSL) it doesn't tend to matter if you're a distance away from the exchange.

Not at all. You didn't come across like that, and I wasn't being sarcky

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #81 on:** June 20, 2011, 09:58:45 pm »

Does anyone here use NZB Matrix and is it down for you too?

SP · « **Reply #82 on:** June 20, 2011, 10:00:33 pm »

Quote from: Walshy® on June 20, 2011, 09:58:45 pm

Does anyone here use NZB Matrix and is it down for you too?

It was this afternoon. Haven't checked tonight.

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #83 on:** June 20, 2011, 10:39:49 pm »

That's a bastard. Our internet goes off tomorrow for 3 weeks as moving and have loads of series' in the middle of downloading!

iSmiff · « **Reply #84 on:** June 20, 2011, 10:46:05 pm »

ya, it's very much down

nzbmatrix going down won't stop your downloads of course

wacko · « **Reply #85 on:** June 21, 2011, 12:01:31 am »

Quote from: iSmiff on June 20, 2011, 10:46:05 pm

ya, it's very much down

nzbmatrix going down won't stop your downloads of course

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

That wailed, I use SickBeard, and I think it can get its NZBs from other sources.

Kashinoda · « **Reply #86 on:** June 23, 2011, 04:13:25 pm »

Getting god awful completion with Astraweb recently, any one else having issues? Not even old files either but relatively new files. Downloaded over 50GB and none of if was usable due to corruption.

hope_valley_parker · « **Reply #87 on:** June 23, 2011, 04:14:56 pm »

Quote from: Kashinoda on June 23, 2011, 04:13:25 pm

Getting god awful completion with Astraweb recently, any one else having issues? Not even old files either but relatively new files. Downloaded over 50GB and none of if was usable due to corruption.

Me too. The last week or so I've been repairing every download like mad, or ending up blocks short. Annoying.

iSmiff · « **Reply #88 on:** June 23, 2011, 05:41:31 pm »

Not had that issue on astraweb

Kashinoda · « **Reply #89 on:** June 24, 2011, 05:59:42 am »

Seems the problem isn't the completion but a bug with their servers after having a search, hasn't affected everyone.

Quote from: hope_valley_parker on June 23, 2011, 04:14:56 pm

Me too. The last week or so I've been repairing every download like mad, or ending up blocks short. Annoying.

Are you using Newsleecher? It's probably a good idea to have a fill/backup server (as I've just discovered). If you buy a block from http://www.blocknews.net... add that account to Newsleecher and set it as Priority 2. If there's any missing parts from your download on Astraweb it grabs them from the backup server, it doesn't redownload the whole file just little bits of data. Haven't had any problems now and it's pretty cheap, a 10GB block would probably last you a while!

wacko · « **Reply #90 on:** June 30, 2011, 07:11:32 pm »

That's a cracking idea, Kashinoda. Have done, and it'll be interesting to see how well it works.

Kashinoda · « **Reply #91 on:** July 1, 2011, 08:23:07 pm »

Worked perfectly for me so far, nothing ever needs repairing.

Anwer · « **Reply #92 on:** July 1, 2011, 10:27:48 pm »

Astraweb+Newsleecher have been working like a charm for me ever since I switched from torrents (

) to using newsgroups (

) I'm getting 800-900kbps on a shitty 5Mbps connection

Anwer · « **Reply #93 on:** July 2, 2011, 11:28:22 am »

Fuck, i jinxed it. Downloaded a 10gig movie that turned out be corrupted and beyond repair.

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #94 on:** August 1, 2011, 09:39:02 pm »

Quote from: Anwer on July 1, 2011, 10:27:48 pm

Astraweb+Newsleecher have been working like a charm for me ever since I switched from torrents ( ) to using newsgroups () I'm getting 800-900kbps on a shitty 5Mbps connection

What server are you using?

Since moving we are on Sky and getting 6.5Mbps - but my conection to Astraweb is about 720KM/s

Jimmy Conway · « **Reply #95 on:** August 1, 2011, 09:47:18 pm »

Just moved from PC to Mac, can anyone suggest a good client to use with Astraweb?

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #96 on:** August 1, 2011, 09:52:22 pm »

I use SABnzbd but interested if there is something else better to use?

Kashinoda · « **Reply #97 on:** August 2, 2011, 01:42:02 am »

Quote from: Walshy® on August 1, 2011, 09:39:02 pm

What server are you using?

Since moving we are on Sky and getting 6.5Mbps - but my conection to Astraweb is about 720KM/s

720KB/sec is probably about right although if you were on a true 6.5Mbps line you could get up to 812KB/sec

http://web.forret.com/tools/bandwidth.asp?speed=6.5&unit=Mbps (not sure if these calculations include overheads or not)

Anwer · « **Reply #98 on:** August 2, 2011, 02:54:56 am »

^ My download speeds have occasionally peaked at 1mbps. (I'm on a 5Mbps connection)

hope_valley_parker · « **Reply #99 on:** August 2, 2011, 07:35:34 am »

BT ordered to block Newzbin from its internet customers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14339223

Dan86 · « **Reply #100 on:** August 9, 2011, 12:07:26 am »

Thanks very much Kashinoda, your guide was really useful to help me get set up. Got it working last night & speeds are good.

I was onto a good thing with a fileserve permium acct and used Maxxed for football, BoB for small sized tv & movies, Boxing Scene for well, boxing & WarezBB for everything else but alas, I live in New Zealand now & they're introducing a file sharing law next month. http://www.3news.co.nz/File-sharing-bill-a-warning-to-downloaders/tabid/419/articleID/207008/Default.aspx Not sure how much of it is bluster but I've been thinking for a while that I should exercise a little more caution and Usenet & SSL encryption should help me stay off the radar.

Anyway, I've signed up to NZBMatrix as you recommended but would appreciate a steer in the right direction. Could anyone recommend good newsgroups for the following content:

Football (obviously!)
TV shows & films, 720p re encoded to small file sizes (like the stuff sc0rp & BoB share)
Documentaries
Boxing fights & documentaries, not just recent stuff but harder to find
Good (subjective term I know) music

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kashinoda · « **Reply #101 on:** August 10, 2011, 04:21:23 pm »

Quote from: Dan86 on August 9, 2011, 12:07:26 am

Thanks very much Kashinoda, your guide was really useful to help me get set up. Got it working last night & speeds are good.

I was onto a good thing with a fileserve permium acct and used Maxxed for football, BoB for small sized tv & movies, Boxing Scene for well, boxing & WarezBB for everything else but alas, I live in New Zealand now & they're introducing a file sharing law next month. http://www.3news.co.nz/File-sharing-bill-a-warning-to-downloaders/tabid/419/articleID/207008/Default.aspx Not sure how much of it is bluster but I've been thinking for a while that I should exercise a little more caution and Usenet & SSL encryption should help me stay off the radar.

Anyway, I've signed up to NZBMatrix as you recommended but would appreciate a steer in the right direction. Could anyone recommend good newsgroups for the following content:

Football (obviously!)
TV shows & films, 720p re encoded to small file sizes (like the stuff sc0rp & BoB share)
Documentaries
Boxing fights & documentaries, not just recent stuff but harder to find
Good (subjective term I know) music

Thanks in advance for any help.

You're welcome.

By good Newsgroups, do you mean websites where you acquire links (such as NZBMatrix?).

If you mean servers from which you download from, they all mirror each other any way.

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #102 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:10:07 pm »

Kash in your opinion what is the best download client? Can they be faster/slower/better than each other?

Kashinoda · « **Reply #103 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:57:43 pm »

I've always used Newsleecher and I'd recommend it over anything else, I use the one that I linked on the opening post. It's just very thorough whilst being easy to use, also found its a lot better at accurately reporting speeds. Many like SabNZBd+, I've used it for a while but you have to interact with it through a browser or additional plugins, it's more flexible if you want to spend time tweaking etc. It's also cross platform and you can control it remotely, but if you just want a solid program use Newsleecher.

Dan86 · « **Reply #104 on:** August 11, 2011, 10:38:26 am »

Quote from: Kashinoda on August 10, 2011, 04:21:23 pm

By good Newsgroups, do you mean websites where you acquire links (such as NZBMatrix?).

Yes mate, that's what I mean. As I was using rapidshare & fileserve for a few years, I found a few specialist sites with the content I'm interested in that I put in my last post. Have become spoilt with the content I could get & I'm looking for the same sort of stuff on Usenet, downloading glutton I've become!

neilers · « **Reply #105 on:** August 12, 2011, 08:29:50 pm »

dan - you can find all of that content on nzbmatrix in the search!

anything better than grabit as a client?

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #106 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:31:56 pm »

Quote from: Kashinoda on August 10, 2011, 10:57:43 pm

I've always used Newsleecher and I'd recommend it over anything else, I use the one that I linked on the opening post. It's just very thorough whilst being easy to use, also found its a lot better at accurately reporting speeds. Many like SabNZBd+, I've used it for a while but you have to interact with it through a browser or additional plugins, it's more flexible if you want to spend time tweaking etc. It's also cross platform and you can control it remotely, but if you just want a solid program use Newsleecher.

Nice one using it now thanks.

Dan86 · « **Reply #107 on:** August 13, 2011, 08:02:04 am »

Quote from: neilers on August 12, 2011, 08:29:50 pm

dan - you can find all of that content on nzbmatrix in the search!

No you can't mate, at least not in the volume & with the choice I've been enjoying. The boxing site I go on you can get hard to find fights, every fight for a fighters career, lots of boxing documentaries etc. Same with maxxed, the football content is huge, every Liverpool game, games from around the world, highlights, documentaries etc.

The content is not as wide ranging as this on nzbmatrix. I wouldn't expect it to be as it's a general site. I'm looking for specialist sites for football content, boxing etc. sure they're out there, I'm new to this Usenet lark so don't know where to look.

SalisburyRed · « **Reply #108 on:** August 15, 2011, 01:57:47 pm »

Quote from: neilers on August 12, 2011, 08:29:50 pm

anything better than grabit as a client?

Newsbin has always been my preference.

EDIT: At least I think this is what I always used to use. I've not used Usenet for a good few months now because I use my friend's Rapidshare premium account, and I've reformatted my computer since then so the programme's not installed. Now having doubts about whether it was Newsbin I did previously use or not.

hope_valley_parker · « **Reply #109 on:** August 30, 2011, 12:56:22 pm »

Just about to order a Western Digital TV Live HD Media Player to play movies and TV series. Does anyone own something similar?

I like the way that it will basically play anything in any format, and you can plug a hard drive in and be watching media in seconds. Getting sick of having to convert files to watch through the PS3.

Reasonable looking price too (£70).

Anwer · « **Reply #110 on:** August 30, 2011, 03:41:32 pm »

^ I have this baby:

Seagate Freeagent Goflex HD Media Player

Works like a charm. Seems to play any format I throw at it.

iSmiff · « **Reply #111 on:** August 30, 2011, 06:33:22 pm »

Does the wd support dts now?

hope_valley_parker · « **Reply #112 on:** August 30, 2011, 06:48:44 pm »

Quote from: iSmiff on August 30, 2011, 06:33:22 pm

Does the wd support dts now?

Pretty sure it does.

-Sad Fuck- · « **Reply #113 on:** August 30, 2011, 06:52:56 pm »

Quote from: hope_valley_parker on August 30, 2011, 12:56:22 pm

Just about to order a Western Digital TV Live HD Media Player to play movies and TV series. Does anyone own something similar?

I like the way that it will basically play anything in any format, and you can plug a hard drive in and be watching media in seconds. Getting sick of having to convert files to watch through the PS3.

Reasonable looking price too (£70).

I'm looking to grab a WD HDD as it happens so that's good. Nice one.

Lee1-6Liv · « **Reply #114 on:** August 30, 2011, 07:17:20 pm »

Got one of these, £96 with a 2TB hard drive.

hope_valley_parker · « **Reply #115 on:** September 4, 2011, 08:00:26 am »

Hello Usenetters. Looking for some advice on unpacking my files when I've downloaded them.

If say I've downloaded a TV series with multiple episodes, currently I'm unpacking them with WinRAR one by one. Takes quite a while, as I run QuickPAR each time as well to check that the blocks are all there.

Is there an easier way to do the whole series at once?

Thanks guys.

iSmiff · « **Reply #116 on:** September 4, 2011, 10:39:20 am »

Quote from: hope_valley_parker on September 4, 2011, 08:00:26 am

Hello Usenetters. Looking for some advice on unpacking my files when I've downloaded them.

If say I've downloaded a TV series with multiple episodes, currently I'm unpacking them with WinRAR one by one. Takes quite a while, as I run QuickPAR each time as well to check that the blocks are all there.

Is there an easier way to do the whole series at once?

Thanks guys.

use sabnzbd, it automatically unpacks and repairs your downloads, problem solved

Logistiks · « **Reply #117 on:** September 4, 2011, 04:40:41 pm »

I know it's not really to do with newsgroups, but, I download and play all my mkv's and shiz on this HP Proliant Microserver. Works out around £120 when you get the £100 cash back. Add a few HDDs and a cheap passively cooled graphics card (I went for a 1GB ATi 5450 which cost ~£30) and you've got yourself a low powered, quiet, home theater PC. Really pleased with mine!

buzzing · « **Reply #118 on:** September 12, 2011, 06:59:01 pm »

Anyone know if it's possible to series link a download?

Edit: RSS jobs it looks like - Still dunno how though via binsearch

hope_valley_parker · « **Reply #119 on:** September 13, 2011, 06:22:14 am »

Quote from: buzzing on September 12, 2011, 06:59:01 pm

Anyone know if it's possible to series link a download?

Edit: RSS jobs it looks like - Still dunno how though via binsearch

Quick google found this:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/17/how-to-use-rss-to-automatically-download-anything-from-usenet/

Don't know if that helps?