usenet providers?

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:54 pm 0

Can anyone recommend some good news feed providers? I'm on F2s which has a poopy news feed with about 2 groups, nothing binary.

Sick of downloading my tv stuff so slow, when my broadband speed has just gone up as well!

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:08 pm 0

I believe the stock answer to this is Easynews or Giganews.

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:10 pm 0

I use http://www.newshosting.com/ and have no problems.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:12 pm 0

Zen's news servers are pretty top-notch, too.

Geenius · Post by **Geenius** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:14 pm 0

Mojo wrote:I use http://www.newshosting.com/ and have no problems.

Me too.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:27 pm 0

Easynews is fine here

techno12 · Post by **techno12** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:22 pm 0

Yup, Easynews for me too. The best way to spend $9.98 per month - it's brilliant..

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:32 pm 0

thanks for the recommendations. In conjunction with newzbin, is this really that much better than torrenting your tv needs?

piku · Post by **piku** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:38 pm 0

In my day we used to watch TV on special devices known as "televisions". Imagine a computer monitor with buttons on the front.

PlusNet no longer do binary feeds. Then again my news reader just quietly exploded and refused to work last time I tried.

Dr Who tomorrow night...

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:56 pm 0

For those of us who don't want to download binaries or pay for usenet, is there any option? I've just discovered that my ISP is a usenet-free zone, and they'll be missing me on rec.games.board.

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:12 pm 0

just to let you know, I went with easynet and newzbin. Very nice combination. Coupled with Unison and pardeluxe on my mac, life is a lot quicker now!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:18 pm 0

piku wrote:In my day we used to watch TV on special devices known as "televisions". Imagine a computer monitor with buttons on the front.

Some of us don't like to be six months behind on our Lost episodes because Channel 4 are fucking useless

Loada · Post by **Loada** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:00 pm 0

Another thumbs up for newshosting.com here.

My ISP (NTL) has some of the binary usenet groups on their news server but the retention is not very long at all, particularly for the high-turnover groups. I use theirs as a slave server in Newzbin cos it can be handy if the thing you're after is actually on their server - plus you can have more connections to them than newshosting.