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i never really understood what the benefit of news servers over torrents were? someone care to explain why they would pay for a news server when they can just use torrents for free?

thanks

fair enough you max out your line...but if you get good seeded torrents with a few good int peers then you also max out your line.
 
fxit_man said:
i never really understood what the benefit of news servers over torrents were? someone care to explain why they would pay for a news server when they can just use torrents for free?

thanks

fair enough you max out your line...but if you get good seeded torrents with a few good int peers then you also max out your line.
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Because traditionally, torrent sites require you to a seed 1:1 ratio. So if you download 10GB, you have to upload 10GB aswell. Thus 20GB usage. If you use newservers, no need to seed thus 20GB of downloaded data. In theory anyway...
 
BLaZor2 said:
Because traditionally, torrent sites require you to a seed 1:1 ratio. So if you download 10GB, you have to upload 10GB aswell. Thus 20GB usage. If you use newservers, no need to seed thus 20GB of downloaded data. In theory anyway...
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Not to mention the avoidance of the inevitable infringement of copyright warnings that come torrents and other p2p apps.
 
im on 4mbit....downloading from international news server and getting max speeds, doing about 430 - 450kbps all the time.
 
fxit_man said:
i never really understood what the benefit of news servers over torrents were? someone care to explain why they would pay for a news server when they can just use torrents for free?

fair enough you max out your line...but if you get good seeded torrents with a few good int peers then you also max out your line.
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You can download a lot more in a shorter space of time with News Servers. You just queue them up and work your way through one file at a time at full speed. No need to share back, and no waiting.
 
also you don't have to worry about seeders as stuff becomes older
 
Two questions:
Which is the best free news server?
Which is the best pay news server?

Im going from Afrihost to mweb because i assume they will have better speeds.......
 
blank said:
Two questions:
Which is the best free news server?
Which is the best pay news server?
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For international ... http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/entry.p...uff-from-the-Usenet-(International-Bandwidth)
For Local ... http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?103290-News-server-related-queries

blank said:
Im going from Afrihost to mweb because i assume they will have better speeds.......
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Um, no... you had better re-think that. The Mweb product is pretty heavily shaped on News Servers. Reports are that they do not really run at full speed, even after hours.
 
I will probably only download 15 - 30gb/month from news servers. Im more worried about my xbox live experience. I want Mwebs unshaped at night. If afrihost is unshaped after hours i might stay with them but i dont think that will be the case?
Does mweb being Tier1 and giving unshaped after hours make it the best choice for xbox live?

My brother and i play BC2 on live with a 384k and its pretty decent at night. (Shaped Afrihost)
 
Garyvdh said:
Um, no... you had better re-think that. The Mweb product is pretty heavily shaped on News Servers. Reports are that they do not really run at full speed, even after hours.
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my anecdotal evidence differs. astraweb has been flying as fast as my axxess express+ account did
 
milomak said:
my anecdotal evidence differs. astraweb has been flying as fast as my axxess express+ account did
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that will be great, if true for everyone, but I have yet to see a consensus on the issue. Perhaps guys can post more in this feedback thread so that we can make a final or informed determination?
 
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