Broadband, the Interenet and Downloading.

[bmd]

As I have yet to be able to use bittorrent after switching to a different isp/wireless router/location at the end of the line (take your pick) and get ridiculously slow speeds on it now, I use Usenet.

I don't, however, download all the headers from one newsgroup and then leaf through them, I use Newsleecher which has an inbuilt Usenet search engine and that searches all of Usenet then returns the results which could be from many different groups, all relevant to the search.

As for the 80 days thing, I'm willing to bet there's more 80 day old content on Usenet than seeds that are 80 days old still available via bittorrent.

But this could all be the ramblings of someone pining for Azureus.

 

[Fong]

As I have yet to be able to use bittorrent after switching to a different isp/wireless router/location at the end of the line (take your pick) and get ridiculously slow speeds on it now, I use Usenet.

I don't, however, download all the headers from one newsgroup and then leaf through them, I use Newsleecher which has an inbuilt Usenet search engine and that searches all of Usenet then returns the results which could be from many different groups, all relevant to the search.

As for the 80 days thing, I'm willing to bet there's more 80 day old content on Usenet than seeds that are 80 days old still available via bittorrent.

But this could all be the ramblings of someone pining for Azureus.

I use Newsleecher too, but I still download regular groups, such as alt.binaries.tv/multimedia, because you do find a few things in there that you perhaps wouldn't have thought about looking for.

I got the new chappelle show earlier didn't even know it was out, new Sci Fi called Kyle XY, not seen it yet, new episodes of Blade the series, never heard of it before I saw it.

I don't generally do this for a lot of groups tho and do use the Super Search service for anything i am particularly looking for.

I also agree about trying to get anything 80+ days from a BitTorrent. DC++ and p2p are probably the best at getting that sort of thing since some stuff sits in shares for ages, but p2p is the worst way to get stuff because it is entirely dependant on the person being online and their connection.

 

[bmd]

I use Newsleecher too, but I still download regular groups, such as alt.binaries.tv/multimedia, because you do find a few things in there that you perhaps wouldn't have thought about looking for.

I got the new chappelle show earlier didn't even know it was out, new Sci Fi called Kyle XY, not seen it yet, new episodes of Blade the series, never heard of it before I saw it.

I don't generally do this for a lot of groups tho and do use the Super Search service for anything i am particularly looking for.

I also agree about trying to get anything 80+ days from a BitTorrent. DC++ and p2p are probably the best at getting that sort of thing since some stuff sits in shares for ages, but p2p is the worst way to get stuff because it is entirely dependant on the person being online and their connection.

Yeah I used to download the entire group but when you're talking about groups with 25 million headers in, which are the most interesting ones, I just can't be arsed. My connection is too slow to do that anyway, for some reason I'm only getting 60KB/s at the most, ISP say it's BT etc etc. Ah well.

 

[Fong]

Yeah I used to download the entire group but when you're talking about groups with 25 million headers in, which are the most interesting ones, I just can't be arsed. My connection is too slow to do that anyway, for some reason I'm only getting 60KB/s at the most, ISP say it's BT etc etc. Ah well.

Yeah but once you downloaded them all once, you only have to download the updated headers, do it once a day and its only 200,000 instead of millions.

If you click the button that shows Old, so it only shows new headers the list of files isn't too large either.

Of course, you still have to do it the first time.