Question regarding Usenet / Gigaflat

[The Watcher]

Hi there,

while searching the net for some stuff I stumpled upon some usenet links.

Actually a whole lotta bunch of them. The site, where I found the list is

Gigaflat.com

As with sharehosters they offer a premium membership. This is as far as I got because for the rest of the info I hve to create a free account, which already bugs.

So I would like to know

a) Does anyone have experience with Gigaflat?

b) do they offer good service?

c) Can those files (the movies I look for are often split into 20 and more parts) be downloaded at a decent speed?

d) Can I use Jdownloader to download those files?

It would be great to hear some opinion about this service. But I'm also grateful if you could point out usenet alternatives.

Thanx in advance!!

[BlueShinobi]

Usenet is pretty much usenet. A few services have mildly longer retention than other sites. If these are relatively new(less than a year) you could download them from any usenet service. Most services have 3+ years of retention. Redorb is one of the cheaper ones and if you're not very demanding, probably a good bet.
If you intend to use longterm, buying a few gbs on a per gb rate is good as a fill server.

No, JDownloader does not support usenet. Altbinz is what you're stuck with among free programs.

Usenet Explorer is great due to the integrated search feature and polling ability of minor channels. But that search feature keys into their server. Which requires you own a copy of the program. Cracked ones are basically just another crummy program that can download nzb files but can't search.

And you'll find usenet search engines to be pure crap unless you're looking for stuff like the Avenger's movie. There is a ton of stuff on Usenet, but you will never, ever find it with most indexers.

My personal opinion is that usenet is a chore. It's thirty years old and it shows. It *feels* 30 years old dealing with it. Something you will encounter a LOT is that uploads are corrupt. You discover this only when your download is done and your program goes to combine your pieces. At which point you'll be told you need so many repair pieces for a par file to repair your file. Next, you have to go to the file post where you got the file and ask the uploader to upload a par file for you, matching your repair needs. Then come back and maybe get the file, should the uploader read your post and decide to do it.

Sound fun? Cuz if so, Usenet is for you!

Before you pay for this, I'd suggest trying http://ngroups.net/index1.php?p=crtest&pr=newsreview
It's a free 5gb trial account with no CC crap. You just use an ISP email and they send you account info. I don't recommend ngroup if you want to buy this service, though. They charge way too much(possibly cuz of all the free leeches ).
You can also get a free trial from xennews. It's a two day unlimited trial, you just have to email them and ask. Xennews is a little crappier from what I remember(I tried usenet over two years ago).

[The Watcher]

Hi BlueShinobi,

thank you so much for the quick reply.

It really seems that Usenet is one hell of a thing to use (ina negative sense).

Still, it might be the only way to get a few clips that I can't find as downloads on the rest of the net.

So I might have to "pester" with a few more questions. I hope thats fine.

Cheers, Watcher

[disorder]

There is another free program you can use to DL from NGs called Grabit. You can also use a browser based program called SABnzbd. If you learn how to use nzb files and use these following sites getting things from NGs can be pretty easy. When I first started it took a couple weeks of work figuring everything out but it was worth it.

nzbxxx.com
nzbmatrix.com
newzbin2.es
newzxxx.com
nzbindex.com
binsearch.com
mysterbin.com

[BlueShinobi]

I forgot to mention that there are also free lifetime usenet servers with super low retention of data.

Both of these are %100 free but have only 10 day retention
xsusenet.com
just4today.net
Speeds are capped at around 1mbps.

[kingfish99]

Originally Posted by disorder

There is another free program you can use to DL from NGs called Grabit. You can also use a browser based program called SABnzbd. If you learn how to use nzb files and use these following sites getting things from NGs can be pretty easy. When I first started it took a couple weeks of work figuring everything out but it was worth it.

Yeah, I second that, SABnzbd is the best NZB downloader Ive ever seen and I've been through a few. User friendly, runs on minimal resources and stable, also integrates with your browser, well at-least Firefox.