How much traffic do you use on the net a day.

[vazel]

I never understood people that call themselves collectors and their entire collection consists of warez. That's like calling yourself a collector of art but your entire collection consists of polaroids you took of art in museums. The stuff I really like that I want to collect I buy physical copies of so I can put them in my bookcase. And physical copies will last much longer than they will on DVD-Rs and HDDs.

 

[Pete]

McAfee doesn't, neither does AVG or the WinXP firewall AFAIK... So what's everyone using?

I haven't used it in years so I'm not sure how perfect it'll work with WinXP or Vista, but I used to use a program called NetStat Live by Analog-X. In fact, I'm inspired to try it again, just to see how little I use this conxn nowadays.

 

[Sobek]

The Best Usenet program out there is AltBinz. It's the Usenet equivalent of uTorrent. You configure your server(s), connect, and have it watch a directory for NZB files. You download the NZB files from other sites or search using the built-in supported sites. The program does all the rest.

Hey BRiT. I've just been giving Altbinz a try, and so far i'm totally lost (I am 100% new to usenet, I don't even know how anything works...does my ISP charge me for usenet usage as some people hav suggested, or should it just be going towards my usage? Beats me, I don't feel like calling them for various reasons). Anyway, I entered my ISP's news server as the primary server (news.bigpond.com), and connected to it. I then searched for any random file I could think of, found one (it was green and said '100%' beside it so I assume it's in good health). I right-clicked and hit 'Add to Queue', but nothing happens...nothing appears in the queue, and once I click that I can no longer add anything else unless I quit the program and reopen it.

Care to give a fool some pointers?

*edit* Ahh, there was a spinning little bracket symbol once I added it, once that finished it entered the queue. However the file appears to be split over many hundreds of .rar/par2 files or something (giant list of crap), and it's just downloading starting at the top. Can I assume it's going to automatically get everything that's needed for this file to function correctly?

*double-edit* Eh, I just stopped it. I have no idea if anything I get is what I actually think it is...the filename suggests it's one thing, but then the split archives don't seem to match up. It'll show something like 'Nameoffile.Part01-02.PAR2' then 'Nameoffile.Part03-04.PAR2' and so on...but then there'll be one or two missing, like Part16-17.PAR2 or such, and it's nowhere to be found in the list. Does that mean that particular part is missing? Also, the amount left to download at the bottom is far less than the added download's actual size. The download I added was close to 2gb, the filesize remaining for download at the bottom (the bit that counts down as it downloads) shows 1.03gb...what's that about?

This is just way to messy I think. At least with bittorrent it's simple. Get BT client, get torrent file, add torrent, tell it where you want it, and that's it. Configure connection details if necessary...no silly PAR files or whatever

*Triple-edit* Checked the log, endless 403 errors. Screw it, i'm sticking to BT.

 

[vazel]

Have you bothered to read up on Usenet at all? It's very very simple. Once you know what you're doing all you have to do is download NZBs to your client and the client will take care of the rest.

The reason you're getting missing files is because your Usenet server is ass or the file is too old. A good one will cost you $15($25 for the best, Giganews). In Usenet you have retention and completion. Retention is how long files are stored on your Usenet server. Completion is how good file integrity is on your Usenet server. Files on Usenet are made up of hundreds of encoded text files(Usenet wasn't mean for storage of data). Sometimes one of those files are lost so you use the par2 files to repair(good clients will do this automatically for you).

 

[AlNom]

Hm... according to my ISP, I averaged 757MB/day since December 1st. In December, bandwidth consumption was pretty low @~7.4GB. March was higher than normal because my brother was back for a couple weeks (40GB). I normally average about 20-22GB/month by myself.

I'm allowed 60GB per month btw. A lot of the heavy stuff I download includes HD game trailers and interviews. They're pretty damn big at 720p.