Moederloos
Honorary Master
shadowbane said:
I seldom download anything unless it has a PAR set - those PAR sets are the best thing since forever
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IS news server?!?
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I seldom download anything unless it has a PAR set - those PAR sets are the best thing since forever
grabit
ok so u guys have convinced me to change from newsleecher. which is better grabit/newsbin? also are there guides available for setting up all the options so partial downlaods etc as you guys have stated , are corrected? thanx
ok so u guys have convinced me to change from newsleecher. which is better grabit/newsbin? also are there guides available for setting up all the options so partial downlaods etc as you guys have stated , are corrected? thanx
Moederloos
Honorary Master
silkman said:
Newzbin gets my vote - I have downloaded (literally) 100s of GB with it.
Easy to use - when it downloads, it marks missing parts in red, when done, simply highlight those parts and select retry - easy as 1,2,3
Moederloos
Honorary Master
silkman said:
Newzbin is around 200 good ol safrican rands. Well worth it IMHO.
I was also using NewsLeecher for a long time and even bought it, however it has become useless on the IS news server due to its handling of the #400 error so often returned (it never retries that segment and produces a corrupt, undersized file).
I recently switched to NewsBin Pro and it eventually manages to download everything I want, albeit with numerous manual "retry download" commands from me.
The other day I discovered http://sourceforge.net/projects/sabnzbd/ and all I can say is WOW! While I would still prefer NewsLeecher's interface, SABnzbd is just what the doctor ordered. It is low on resource usage, completely free, automatically handles all PAR2 processing (downloading only what is required), and automatically retries a download until it has completed it. Give it a try!
I recently switched to NewsBin Pro and it eventually manages to download everything I want, albeit with numerous manual "retry download" commands from me.
The other day I discovered http://sourceforge.net/projects/sabnzbd/ and all I can say is WOW! While I would still prefer NewsLeecher's interface, SABnzbd is just what the doctor ordered. It is low on resource usage, completely free, automatically handles all PAR2 processing (downloading only what is required), and automatically retries a download until it has completed it. Give it a try!
Yuu
Executive Member
Decoding...
Thanks for the link Mr BishopZA
Although not using IS News Server i have come across probs using grabit in regards to decoding were a file would download but not decode and ends up with no extention in your Grabit/Cache/Articles folder and what you would use is a program to decode these manually [perhaps this is one of the problems u may be having
] get the free software called yEnc32
read more about it here and download from here its only 710kb
before i forget do make sure to grab the complete group list as that was the source of the above problem, other issues may lead to the same solution. Grouplist is not that big in comparison to the headers
Yuu
Thanks for the link Mr BishopZA
Although not using IS News Server i have come across probs using grabit in regards to decoding were a file would download but not decode and ends up with no extention in your Grabit/Cache/Articles folder and what you would use is a program to decode these manually [perhaps this is one of the problems u may be having
] get the free software called yEnc32 read more about it here and download from here its only 710kb
before i forget do make sure to grab the complete group list as that was the source of the above problem, other issues may lead to the same solution. Grouplist is not that big in comparison to the headers
Yuu
killadoob
Honorary Master
jhow good is this new server
can you get just about anything?
can you get just about anything?
Moederloos
Honorary Master
killadoob said:
I have yet to see anything listed on newzbin.com that I could not get on news.is.co.za. IMHO it is at least as good as giganews.
shadowbane
Active Member
OH MY SACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BishopZA...dunno where u find dis kuk...but SWEETTTT!!!!
downloaded..installed..was a bit of a strange way to setup...but its working like da bomb!!!
Download speed: 52.52 kb/s - Queued: 750.32/794.72 MB ----- hehehehehee
now i can actually sit back and not stress about the stuff coming down corrupted since it keeps retrying the part that got dropped...HEAVEN ekse!
mebe now i can stop wasting bandwidth in needing to redownload sum of the files....
this is certainly the way to go for IS news server...even during the day....
Bish if u where a chick i wud ask u to have my children...but hey..such is life!
oh and btw. yes i have so far found everything i wanted via IS news server......
BishopZA...dunno where u find dis kuk...but SWEETTTT!!!!
downloaded..installed..was a bit of a strange way to setup...but its working like da bomb!!!
Download speed: 52.52 kb/s - Queued: 750.32/794.72 MB ----- hehehehehee
now i can actually sit back and not stress about the stuff coming down corrupted since it keeps retrying the part that got dropped...HEAVEN ekse!
mebe now i can stop wasting bandwidth in needing to redownload sum of the files....
this is certainly the way to go for IS news server...even during the day....
Bish if u where a chick i wud ask u to have my children...but hey..such is life!
oh and btw. yes i have so far found everything i wanted via IS news server......
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As far as I can tell (by studying communication logs), the IS news server actually retrieves the articles from GigaNews and caches them locally. That's why IS also has 70-day retention (just like GigaNews) and why it's much faster and less error-prone to wait a few hours before downloading something new (increasing the chances that someone else has caused the files to be cached locally).
SAIX and news servers
Well I have my ISADSL account and a SAIX, is there anyway to use the IS news server from SAIX with my login details? Otherwise is giganews the best option signup for? Anyone have any recorded speeds from it?
Well I have my ISADSL account and a SAIX, is there anyway to use the IS news server from SAIX with my login details? Otherwise is giganews the best option signup for? Anyone have any recorded speeds from it?
ziglet said:
AFAIK there's no way to connect to the IS news server from any account but an IS one. As you have 2 accounts you can try connecting to both accounts at once. See this for more info:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=39234
Moederloos
Honorary Master
ziglet said:
It is counter productive to do this. The SAIX account is most likely hard capped with a small cap to boot. The IS local cap is 30GB+. Using the SAIX one would be way more costly.
As the post below yours states, rather do a dual logon, and route news.is.co.za over the ISDSL.
