free unlimited usenet download until July 4th

Free binaries at cheapernews.com this week

We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of articles, both binaries and text.

Please give us a hand by testing things out -

The server is:

stresstest.cheapernews.com

No username/password is required.

SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections per host.

Sorry, we don't support posting.

We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.

I'm maxing out my 20mbps fios on this one.

EDIT: just noticed they charge $6/mos unlimited with 200 day retention/ssl ...not sure about quality but thats heck of a price.

Newbie, do not know how to use it.

1lossir said: You might want to read this before heading on over to download a few gigs of music...
Usenet and usenet.com are not the same thing.

Thanks! I'm so happy with this I signed up - that is an amazing price and service has been great so far.

Thanks OP. Getting same speeds as my normal provider. Might be a switch for me depending on how these next few days go.

The first rule of usenet...

anyway, nice deal if they can hold up to the traffic. I use an expensive site, but can get all I need. It's faster and easier than ripping and recoding my BR discs manually! (I should say that I browse a lot but have little time, and my choice provider both decodes/unpars/unrars/thumbnails all the binary groups, which is what makes it worth while)

myeric said: Newbie, do not know how to use it.

Here is the site that got me started 3 years and 1.9TB ago.

Alt.binz is a great progy and worth the $21.23 for multi-site searching, RSS, and auto unRAR support. I have not used Bitorrent since I got "that email" from comcrap.

I currently pay through the nose for Giganews unlimited w/ SSL ($29.99) but have never had a problem and max out my 6mbps connection. $6.00 is pretty enticing though!

ive started using Bintube's usenet service at about $11 bucks a month. So far, so good and you get a great streaming program. with a consistent 1.2 megs per sec download speed, i am able to stream 720p movies.

Giganews is still the king, but its also one of the most expensive.

"usenet" is the uthopia where you can find anything...from a cheap porno, a pirate software to a formular to make an A-bomb.

And, yeah, it's free (after you paid for the subscription) !!!

ummm . . . WHAT IS THIS?!?

I've got it free through newshosting, but I worry about roadrunner tracking what I download. plus I know what usenet holds, but I don't really know how to use it to get it or what file to trust..

first off, what does "30 day retention" mean?

Usenet Info

without usenet, you might as well shutdown computer

world wide web is probably only 50% of the resources you can get online.

I just signed up with astraweb after getting The Letter. I always max out my cable at 1-1.5MB/s. I'm trying to talk a co-worker into the process and I think this may do it.

germanpope said: I understand that usenet has been around for ever --- but I have never made use of it
I have no interest in obtaining software, porn, pictures or whatever from there
could someone please give a summary of what other uses there are and why I should bother if I don't need it to obtain any of the above

If you are not interested in anything, you do not even need internet (or fatwallet ?)

nice deal !!!

bikerbandito said: its not connecting (no username or password, and ssl disabled). Anyone else having the same problem?

The initial problems I had were SSL. The server kept responding by rejecting my connection attempt. Once I disabled SSL, I got on just fine.

My current problems is that it's slow as molasses. Or maybe it's not even doing anything right now, I don't know. I've been trying to download headers for the last hour or so.

Well, they said they wanted to 'stress test' their servers. I guess they can't handle it.

blackout said: usenet service is bad, if you don't know how to use it, please don't learn. Its only been around since the start of internet.

Correction, its been around before the word "internet" was created.

sideen17 said: im maxing my connection out (unfortunately 500kbps damn you cable splitter!) but yea its definitely a prob on your end
My 15mbps connection is pegged at 0.0KBps, with occasional, momentary bursts up to 120KBps. My guess is, the entire universe is jamming their servers. They should've had a limited, invite-only test instead; that way they could've demonstrated their service to prospective new customers. If people like me are getting ZERO throughput, what's the likelihood we'll signup post-beta?

edit: riding high at 300-500KBps now. oops, back to 0 again. whatever, its free. if my 25gb batch completes sometime, i'll try them when they go live.

germanpope said: duyang said: ... If you are not interested in anything, you do not even need internet (or fatwallet ?)

my question was actually serious

I am not interested in a discussion about whether downloads of copyrighted material is good or bad

I was just wondering if there is other useful legit stuff --- (ie. are there contractors discussing building a porch; or dog breeders talking about vaccines; ect)

I always search the web for forum discussion when I need answers like changing my fuel filter on my car --- is there anything like that that I am missing without usenet?

Usenet was once that, with a sense of humor. I remember when you could see all 24 newsgroups on an 80x25 monitor. Then it proliferated into hundreds, probably tens of thousands now, with infinite subspecialties. This was before Mosaic, (some other parrot-related program), and well before Netscape. I think I used the mosaic alpha back in the day. Ftp'ing and rlogins, telnetting before that. And well before the AOL crowd discovered Usenet.

I suspect you can find valuable groups of interest. You might have to dig for them a bit, but there are probably adequate tools for that now, rather than scrolling down an ASCII monitor.

now all my ipv6 free servers stopped working.
does anyone know of any still working?

EDIT: never mind, they all work, was in middle of downloading something 160 days old and must of had passed retension time in middle