News server related queries

[TheRift]

Astraweb is good. Beats giganews on pricing any day.

 

[Schwartz]

Astraweb is good. Beats giganews on pricing any day.

Ya... do you use it? on you on the IS backbone? what speeds you get?

 

[TheRift]

Yes, I use it. I'm on IS as well. Goes 400-420KB/sec. Sometimes during the month they do something as astraweb, can become useless, but then it's back up to full speed in a couple of hours.

 

[Schwartz]

Yes, I use it. I'm on IS as well. Goes 400-420KB/sec. Sometimes during the month they do something as astraweb, can become useless, but then it's back up to full speed in a couple of hours.

k cool

 

[LazyLion]

Astraweb is good. Beats giganews on pricing any day.

+1 .. I'm also using them at full speed on the IS backbone.

 

[Schwartz]

+1 .. I'm also using them at full speed on the IS backbone.

good to hear

 

[bwana]

Is anyone able to connect to news.is?

 

[lerouxjj]

Tried Usenext. Not for me thanks.....

 

[swazz99jhb]

Is anyone able to connect to news.is?

news.is.co.za works fine for me, but I'm unable to connect to news.saix.net since yesterday.

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms HOME [192.168.2.1]
2 26 ms 25 ms 21 ms dsl-146-152-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.152.1]

3 * * * Request timed out.

 

[shmarkie]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know of any good free international NZB sites? I know of nzbmatrix.com, but it only allows downloads of new nzbs (up to 25days) on free registration.

Any suggestions / recommendations?
Thanks

 

[TheLoot]

I've heard good things of Merlins Portal (http://www.merlins-portal.net/)

I personally use www.newzleech.com

 

[LazyLion]

I've heard good things of Merlins Portal (http://www.merlins-portal.net/)

+1 Great site. If you have any problems signing up let me know. Telkom's transparent proxy sometimes causes problems.

 

[Freakboy]

Is anyone able to connect to news.is?

I got the same problem. AltBinz connects and then immediately disconnects. I have been trying since 19:00 yesterday night and could not connect or download anything.

 

[Mr Feesh]

Please can some one help me,I downloaded a file off the newsserver, when i try to extract it i get the following error msg "is not a valid rar file" what do i do now?

Thanks

 

[hilton]

Please can some one help me,I downloaded a file off the newsserver, when i try to extract it i get the following error msg "is not a valid rar file" what do i do now?

Well you have two options;

1. If it's really not a valid .rar file then either download the file again or find another .nzb

2. Sometimes the extension gets confused, so simply rename the file with the .rar extension and it should work (assuming you have winrar or similar)

Hope this helps.

 

[Mr Feesh]

Well you have two options;

1. If it's really not a valid .rar file then either download the file again or find another .nzb

2. Sometimes the extension gets confused, so simply rename the file with the .rar extension and it should work (assuming you have winrar or similar)

Hope this helps.

thanks for the help, unfortunately it didnt work 7gbs down the drain, trying re-download it again.

 

[snail112]

thanks for the help, unfortunately it didnt work 7gbs down the drain, trying re-download it again.

Did the file have .par files? If it did DL QuickPar-0.9.1.0 and try a repair, there is sometimes some blocks missing and you cannot extract it.

 

[shmarkie]

Hi guys, forgive me if this has been asked before, but some of my nzb's that are queued don't download. :-? The servers show 0kb/s and it cycles through the articles and nothing downloads... I am currently 4% on a file thats 126 days old. another file thats 2.2 days old also wont download.. Any suggestions / help would be appreciated!

BTW. Im using Alt.binz.

 

[Schwartz]

Does any1 know if the WA Trial Newz server is still up? It says it is connected but going at 0kb/s! I am using news.wa.co.za with 2 connecs.

Are there any alt for the WA trial?

EDIT: It is downloading iratically.. like 20kb/s.. 0kb/s.. 20kb/s etc

 

[gripen]

Are there any alt for the WA trial?

Yes -> news.saix.net