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Only real alternative to Usenet/Torrents are LINUX ISO forums. People will upload to file storage sites like rapidshare and people download from there. Only problem is the storage sites will push you to get a premium account and cap the amount of data/files you can download each hour. FTP is another option but getting access to the good ones requires knowledge and getting invited. In general, don't expect to get anything automated like usenet or bittorrent. You can always try returning to P2P, expect to deal with a shitload of fake files and viruses (plus you'll be tracked).
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No seriously, Astraweb, the service my ISP uses just has so much missing. Its a write-off.
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Jan 13, 2013 21:32
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chunkles posted:Woah seriously? Is it like, fradulent or something? I just bought an astraweb block plan as a backup last night. It's listed as "2buysafe.com" so maybe their block billing is different from subscription billing. Either way that's not very impressive. As was said earlier, it's probably fine, but they used to use 2checkout and the newer service has a lot of hate based on a cursory Google search. I took the opportunity to jump ship to SuperNews for a couple of bucks less monthly, which leads me to my question: SuperNews' TOS forbids connecting through a proxy. Are they serious about that, or is it like their "excessive use" prohibition? I like to connect through a VPN when using less than trustworthy networks.
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BigBadBrewsta posted:Could be. But I tried Blocknews and had the same speeds, and I've downloaded all of ~300 MB from Blocknews over the past 6 months. Of course, I am sure there's someone else out there who may have downloaded a ton from Blocknews. They've probably gotten to all the major providers. I guess it's either deal with slower speeds or pony up for VPN. One of Giganews more expensive packages comes with a VPN. Also just saw this comes with a VPN and it's on offer right now, $7 a month: http://newsgroupdirect.com/unlimited-usenet Kind of tempted to try that out myself, don't know how it will compare to Astraweb, since its a Highwinds reseller. uhhhhahhhhohahhh fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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Jan 13, 2013 23:34
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Ive got a 500GB blocknews account, whats a good alternative block provider to supplement with?
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Jan 14, 2013 00:28
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I'm on "UsenetServer", where should I get a block account to cover all bases. Would probably need <20gb month, hopefully cheap. Speed isn't an issue because i have Australian Internet so its always going to be below 400kb /s
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Jan 14, 2013 00:48
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Astraweb, people! ASTRAWEB!
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Jan 14, 2013 01:33
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Red Robin Hood posted:Astraweb, people! ASTRAWEB! duck monster posted:No seriously, Astraweb, the service my ISP uses just has so much missing. Its a write-off. ??
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Jan 14, 2013 02:25
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I believe the thread has reached the consensus of "Anything but Astraweb"
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Jan 14, 2013 03:03
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Actually, I was really happy with astraweb for years. No real problems with missing articles at all. I only jumped ship due to the processor change and might even end up with a block plan for backup. I don't know what issue the rest of the thread has with them unless you're all hitting nzbs affected by DMCA takedowns or something.
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Jan 14, 2013 03:21
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I used Astraweb for a few years without any problems. Only cancelled because I wasn't downloading much and switched to blocknews for awhile. I'm now on supernews and it's been treating me pretty well.
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Jan 14, 2013 04:12
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Who else is around that is recommended, allows for 20+ connections, and cheap as gently caress? Interested in unlimited only. UsenetServer? XenNews? Supernews? I'm open to suggestions, deals, etc.
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Jan 14, 2013 04:15
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I'm pretty happy with supernews. Bought the year and I have a blocknews backup. No real problems other than the occasional takedowns which seem universal.
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Jan 14, 2013 04:45
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Who else is around that is recommended, allows for 20+ connections, and cheap as gently caress? Interested in unlimited only. I'm with UsenetServer and have had almost everything work, recently my copies of a student film about short people in NZ and a retelling of a story about a former president haven't downloaded but everything else is fine.
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Any that are not as well known that offer insane discounts? I got blocknews as a back up already. Just curious since I was happy with astraweb for years but, meh, I think I'll move on. Edit: I'll still take suggestions but for the time being, GateheaD, you got a referral ID? virtualboyCOLOR fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Any that are not as well known that offer insane discounts? I got blocknews as a back up already. Just curious since I was happy with astraweb for years but, meh, I think I'll move on. My username on it is gatehead, but I don't think they do referrals...
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Popped up during sign up so I figured wutevs. Trying it based on your word. Mainly because I enjoy your avatar. Edit: Nope, saying it must be numeric. Moving along~~
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Jan 14, 2013 05:00
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Oh they want the customer ID, which saves me $10 off next bill which I probably wont be paying anyway. Nevermind. I googled UsenetServer Cheap and found this link https://usenetserver.com/partners/index.php I know I personally pay $95 a year
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Does anyone know where I can find the new keys to the usenet efnet irc chans? Specifically to #alt.binaries.hdtv.x264 and #alt.binaries.teevee, thank you
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Jan 14, 2013 11:39
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duck monster posted:No seriously, Astraweb, the service my ISP uses just has so much missing. Its a write-off. I'm also using astraweb and recently had some stuff fail. I'm wondering if it because I'm downloading oldish stuff that was DMCAed or if Astraweb is having difficulties? Should I be expecting missing articles of things approx 500 days old? They advertise 1600 days of retention of their website. I will probably go to supernews anyway as soon as my sub ends at the end of this month
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Jan 14, 2013 12:51
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Is there any way to tell Sickbeard to have stuff organize like this: D:\TV\Show Name\Season 1\filename.avi Instead of this random crap I am getting like D:\TV\45 random files all over the place or D\TV\Show Name\Random crap all over the place; sometimes in a Season 01 folder, sometimes in a S01 folder, sometimes in no folder at all ? It is making XBMC find this stuff a MAJOR pain in the rear end.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Is there any way to tell Sickbeard to have stuff organize like this: Under Config -> Post Processing, set the Naming Pattern I use this: Season %0S/%SN - S%0SE%0E - %EN Make sure "flatten folders" isn't checked in the show's settings.
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Jan 14, 2013 15:29
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crm posted:Under Config -> Post Processing, set the Naming Pattern Yo I love you. I had SickBeardtoSAB.exe or whatever doing this for me and it was just dumping everything anywhere it saw fit. This fixed it; and I thank you. :*
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Jan 14, 2013 15:37
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Yo I love you. I am your magical internet support gnome
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As for that Astraweb thing; I checked my server settings and I'm running astraweb with a blocknews account for backup. Almost everything is comming from either the eu or us astraweb server. No problems whatsoever, but that is all 0 day stuff.
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Silly Burrito posted:When NZBMatrix was shut down, there was talk of a goon NZB server. Is that still a possibility, or has everyone pretty much gravitated towards rolling their own with Newznab? Actually we've got the hardware, and are looking to get the server into the hosting center very shortly. We're still trying to gauge goon interest-- a helpful goon has already bought up a domain, and we've got people onboard for the front end coding etc. PM me if you're interested, so we can sort of gauge how many users we might wind up with. OMFG PTSD LOL PBUH fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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I would love to utilize GAS CURES KIKES all purpose nzb emporium and extravaganza.
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Yeah guys, the Something Awful Forums Usenet thread is no place for talking about the goon-run NZB indexer project. Shame on you, dicks.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Yeah guys, the Something Awful Forums Usenet thread is no place for talking about the goon-run NZB indexer project. Shame on you, dicks. I actually feel like it's not a huge deal to talk about it in here. I don't think SHSC is public, and we're not going to be handing out the invites in the thread or anything. We do need to gauge user interest, and kind of talk a bit about costs (So we can cover the costs that have already been spent, and hosting) and also how to run this project without it being to the detriment of the SA community.. For instance, requiring X amount of time registered before allowing registration w/ the project to avoid any WHERE DA NZB'S AT?? sorta thing from happening. There are some pretty simple technical implementations to do this that have been used successfully by other goon projects. The goal really is a good solid reliable NZB indexer that has a small but active community and plenty of features but SA members only access. Some costs we're looking at is right around $600 a year or so for hosting + recouping the hardware costs eventually. (A very generous member bought the SSD's and mobo/proc needed for all this) If we can get 100 users, which I think should be more than easy, we can run this thing pretty darn cheap with very small donations from the overall userbase. This isn't a money making enterprise or anything like that, just looking to create a private goon only solution for NZB indexing so that we don't have to deal with the constant indexer takedowns and lovely communities at a lot of different indexers.
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Make sure we have user comments, all the sites I'm a member of don't have the feedback about quality/complete files as nzbmatrix did.
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I am setting up a local NewzNab server for private use and I can't quite figure out how to run the NewzNab update scripts on a schedule, like every 12 hours or once a day. Unfortunately I think I may be missing something about how those scripts work. Any help? Can't find anything on these free indexers that I want.
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St. Blaize posted:I am setting up a local NewzNab server for private use and I can't quite figure out how to run the NewzNab update scripts on a schedule, like every 12 hours or once a day. Unfortunately I think I may be missing something about how those scripts work. Any help? Can't find anything on these free indexers that I want. What OS are you using? I'm using Ubuntu as my host OS, and installed Gnome Schedule to run my update scripts. It's just a GUI to crontab. I modified the newznab_screen_local.sh script to run through once rather than on a constant loop, then scheduled it to run a couple of times a day. It works well!
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Those of you who are using an unlimited subscription with one of the domestics and a block-account with one of the Holland providers, are you just downloading things that have been recently posted? I ask because my roommate and I have between us a Giganews account (Supernews), a Highwinds account (Newshosting), and a Holland account (XSUsenet), and we're still getting incompletes on older postings. Current stuff downloads fine, but when we try to grab Linux ISOs from a year or two ago (and well within our retentions), it fails. You guys that are reporting success, could you try some older stuff?
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kbar posted:Those of you who are using an unlimited subscription with one of the domestics and a block-account with one of the Holland providers, are you just downloading things that have been recently posted? I've run into this too. Somebody* is going hog wild with DMCA takedowns. This looks like the future of Usenet unfortunately. You need to get your ISOs the day they come out, or not at all. I can't see a way around barring a coordinated effort to repost content weekly.
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kbar posted:Those of you who are using an unlimited subscription with one of the domestics and a block-account with one of the Holland providers, are you just downloading things that have been recently posted? I noticed this as well, I'm using Astraweb and some well known linux ISOS from hundreds of years ago are getting missing articles quite often. I'd be very very interested by a GAS CURES KIKES idea and willing to donate a bit to help.
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moron posted:What OS are you using? I am running a Ubuntu 12.04 headless server. Do you have any further info on modifying newznab_screen_local.sh?
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moron posted:What OS are you using? Is there a reason why you decided to do it this way instead of running in a constant loop in a screen? I find that my database doesn't get poo poo on as hard when I'm updating it in little bites instead of large chunks, and it works better with sickbeard this way (because what it's expecting to be there actually is there instead of waiting on a DB to stop crunching away at releases for linux iso's). ...then again I'm running on a headless RHEL box that does my routing and my usenet indexing, so I don't need it for much else. St. Blaize posted:I am running a Ubuntu 12.04 headless server. Do you have any further info on modifying newznab_screen_local.sh? He's modified the screen script to remove the looping aspect (the while loop) and then set it up as a cronjob. If your box is headless, any reason why you don't want to just let it run? Headers are headers and you're going to be pulling them one way or another, so it's not like you're going to be saving bandwidth doing it the way you want to do it. originalnickname fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Jan 15, 2013 |
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