imadthemad wrotebigjudge wroteimadthemad wroteI just started a giganews 14 day free trial for 1$. If terranet doesnt cap newsgroup downloads i might keep the account.
I have had a newsgroup account for the last 7 years, terranet never blocked or throttled my downloads from the news groups so far. However, My newsgroup offers http and nntp using many ports and SSL, i prefer http. Good luck.
hey man what newsgroup provider do you use? i am using giganews now. I was able to download full throttle starting 2am exactly (110KB\s constant)
from 11 to 2 it was around 40KB\s average (which is seriously not bad)
On a side note when SSL is turned off download speed shrinks the same as torrents (becomes 2KB\s) but when SSL is on i get 100KB\s which goes down to 10KB\s and heik it keeps playing till 2am.
im using newsleecher the speed monitor shows it all pretty acceptable results.
Before today i had no idea what newsgroup was now im into a whole different source of warez :P
but im not sure 13$ a month is worth it coz a rapidshare account is 8$ a month and rapidshare has a great variety of files as well...
I use easynews, it is pretty good, they have many HTTP connections, many routes, they are basically their own ISP. I never use a news reader because i hate them, they have a monthly limit on HTTP but unlimited NNTP for their valued costumers. I my speed varies, but i tested the same speed via secured and unsecured connections, it doesn't matter on htttp. The cool this is that if terranet decides to block port 80 for some reason, the news groups have other ports u can use to download. But giganews is the best around.
