Best Usenet provider?

[sniffdog]

Are there still people using usenet through a provider?

Have been using a seedbox for a while but thinking about getting a new usenet account additionally to use with my new 100mb 3bb internet.

Any experience? I used newsdemon before but popular files are gone within 24 hours.

Edited June 6, 2016 by sniffdog

[CaptHaddock]

Newshosting is ok. $10/month.

[sniffdog]

Thanks. A friend of mine recommended this also. More suggestions?

[johng]

I used to use Astraweb a few years ago. But have found torrents to be easier ,faster with no file corruption much less fake password protected rar's and no spam.

[berniept]

Supernews. One low price, unlimited dl's, up to 30 connections allowed, SSL available, servers in US and EU. Free trial available. Have used this for a few years and recommend them.

[lor]

Tweaknews. Been with them for years. Cheap and good. 10 connections. Unlimited download.

[muratremix]

people still post stuff to usenet? amazing.

why not buy a seedbox / vps with 100-200gb diskspace and download stuff via torrent?

I was hardcore usenet downloader before but after newzbin and newzbin2 gone, it was never the same.

[sniffdog]

Well if you go to a site like oznzb.com you will see there are still many people posting.

As said I used a seedbox for months (740 gb diskspace and 10 TB of bandwidth) but there is always an extra step. Download on the seedbox first then FTP it to your hdd. With usenet you download straight away.

I agree usenet was much better when nzbmatrix and merlin were around but would give usenet another go.

Edited June 8, 2016 by sniffdog

[GinBoy2]

newsguy.com, used them for years.....yes I'm a relic from the dinosaur days of the Internet LOL

[robblok]

people still post stuff to usenet? amazing.

why not buy a seedbox / vps with 100-200gb diskspace and download stuff via torrent?

I was hardcore usenet downloader before but after newzbin and newzbin2 gone, it was never the same.

I feel newsgroups are faster as torrent and there are still forums where they spot all the downloads for you.

I use astraweb and max my connection out at 100Mb/s

[muratremix]

people still post stuff to usenet? amazing.

why not buy a seedbox / vps with 100-200gb diskspace and download stuff via torrent?

I was hardcore usenet downloader before but after newzbin and newzbin2 gone, it was never the same.

I feel newsgroups are faster as torrent and there are still forums where they spot all the downloads for you.

I use astraweb and max my connection out at 100Mb/s

newsgroups usually delete dmca requests and it annoys me. Newzbin was huge and you could find everything. Nzbmatrix and similar sites does not satisfy old newzbin users.

Now I simply go to rarbg and download my shows or new movies to a dedicated server in france (which is overkill, a vps with 200gb should be enough like scaleway) and then I download to my NAS device at max speed.

[robblok]

people still post stuff to usenet? amazing.

why not buy a seedbox / vps with 100-200gb diskspace and download stuff via torrent?

I was hardcore usenet downloader before but after newzbin and newzbin2 gone, it was never the same.

I feel newsgroups are faster as torrent and there are still forums where they spot all the downloads for you.

I use astraweb and max my connection out at 100Mb/s

newsgroups usually delete dmca requests and it annoys me. Newzbin was huge and you could find everything. Nzbmatrix and similar sites does not satisfy old newzbin users.

Now I simply go to rarbg and download my shows or new movies to a dedicated server in france (which is overkill, a vps with 200gb should be enough like scaleway) and then I download to my NAS device at max speed.

Take a southafrican newsgroup provider and they don't do that.

[sniffdog]

Thank you for your replies. After getting a trial to hitnews, the first nzb I found on oznzb failed with a message 'this post is not available on this server'. I decided to stay away from nzb and continue with my seedbox and private torrents.