News servers help

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Cash12

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Hi Guys,

I feel as though i been hibernating for a long long time, only now i see people talking about news servers, i been using torrents all along.

I have a small idea, but not entirely sure, could someone please explain what exactly are news servers and how do they work, from what i have heard its way better than torrents.

Sorry if the question is dumb, but id like to get out of this hibernation mode lol.

And if anybody has any referrals to good news servers, preferrably free ones:)


Thanks
 
I feel as though i been hibernating for a long long time, only now i see people talking about news servers, i been using torrents all along.
Torrents will still be the preferred download method for files which are a bit old - stick with them for that reason when needed

I have a small idea, but not entirely sure, could someone please explain what exactly are news servers and how do they work, from what i have heard its way better than torrents.
News servers in the easiest terms, are ISP hosted - files get uploaded and "spanned" across various zip type files.
Your machine (when using relevant software (newsleecher, sabNZBd+ etc) will then download these zipped files, and rejoin them - forming file again.
The issue is retention (paid for news servers keep these files a while longer)

Sorry if the question is dumb, but id like to get out of this hibernation mode lol.
There are no dumb questions, only people who stay uninformed

And if anybody has any referrals to good news servers, preferrably free ones:)
Your ISP hosts news files, MWEB, Telkom etc all have their own, and are normally named news.mweb.co.za, news.isdsl.net, etc

I would recommend getting an integrated setup, where SABNZBD does all your downloading.
invest some time and research reading up on Openelec - but more specifically Sickbeard, SABNZBD,CouchPotato,Headphones,Transmission integration
 
Thanks soo much that explained a helluva lot,

much appreciated.

so i am mweb at the moment, how do i go about connecting to news.mweb.co.za or how do i get onto nzbsa?
 
Enter your news settings into grabit, alt.binz, etc.
No username or password for local servers.
Generally port 119
 
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