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jason · Guest

Could someone please tell me how good 3Web's newsgroups are? What kind of limatations are there if any? What is the speed and number of connections that you can have?

Thanks

Tanzai · Newcomer Joined: 05 Oct 2023 Posts: 5 Location: Canada

3web doesn't offer newsgroups as far as I know.. *shrugs*

I've already ordered it, but I have to wait for my Rogers account to expire near the end of the month for Rogers to release the mac address on my router so that I can get the service transfered to 3web. So I can't even comment on how 'fast' they really are or any other aspect of their service.

But considering the price difference, I'd get a 3rd party usenet feed, personally I'm using Astraweb and am extremely pleased. I got the unlimited broadband for around $18.50Cdn/month in total and the speeds are consistantly great, retention on binaries seems to be reliable for around 2 weeks before it gets iffy.

So when all is said and done, I'll end up paying very slightly less than I did with Rogers, but there will be no caps on anything. I do expect there to be some gripes with the new ISP though, probably in the outages dept. they all have their pros and cons, Rogers has gotten their service to be very stable, but with all the changes they've made in the past without notification, reducing services while raising costs, negative billing and a host of other things, it just doesn't seem worth it to stick with them anymore.

I'll also be getting a couple of nice Mike phones soon and be getting rid of the ones we have with them. Now the digital cable will be the last thing to go.....

mtayeb · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2024 3:12 am Post subject:

webcitizen · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2024 2:06 pm Post subject:

Check out $37/month DSL from look.ca; it comes with Giganews with long retention time. My brother is using 3web with Astraweb, and is considering to switching to look.ca for the Giganews. Astraweb is not bad, but its retention time is short.

NOTE: This message was added on Feb 3, 2006. Look discontinued its newsgroup service. I am better off joining other cheaper DSL provider without newsgroup, then purchase newsgroup account elsewhere.

mtayeb · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2024 3:42 pm Post subject:

Jason · Cool Newbie Joined: 24 Jun 2023 Posts: 30

I thought both 3web and Look used Giganews, has something changed??

webcitizen · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2024 5:23 pm Post subject:

3web's newsgroup provider is NOT giganews. I just re-confirmed it with 2 current 3web users who are happy with 3web, and have no intention to use newsgroup service.

Rogers was providing giganews last year.

I just re-confirmed with 2 other Look.ca users that DSL/Look.ca is providing giganews service. It can be checked by "ping news.look.ca".

Jason · Cool Newbie Joined: 24 Jun 2023 Posts: 30

Sorry I was confused it was Execulink and Look that use giganews.

Rondinelle · Newcomer Joined: 15 Nov 2023 Posts: 3 Location: Toronto

I just hooked up with 3web after Rogers dropped their usenet service.

I haven't even been able to log into 3web's news servers (news.3web.com they say, but no go for me). Regardless, I had always intended of taking the money saved (29.95/mo. for 3web's service) and buying a newsgroup from another service provider. I settled on newsfeeds.com... $4.95US/mo. for 2 GB, but add another $4.95, $7.95 or $10.95/mo. to get 1, 2 or 3 unlimited download days (not counting against your basic 2 GB).

The download speeds are phenomenal (500K/sec... like Rogers was for that brief moment in time before the switch to giganews) with Giganews-like retention. I took the 2-day unlimited option, but I might even drop down to 1 unlimited day as I line up my NZB files and tell Newsbin Pro (through Windows scheduling) to start-up at midnight on my unlimited days and just start downloading away.

ElmerjFudd · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:14 am Post subject:

ElmerjFudd · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:29 am Post subject:

ROGuERS · Member Joined: 03 Jul 2023 Posts: 134 Location: hell

007craft · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 9:14 pm Post subject:

I pay $3 a month for usenet access. Heres how

Goto sites like www.nzbzone.com and www.binsearch.info (theres many more sites). Now find all the NZB files you want of everything you want to download from songs, to movies, to games, etc etc. Continue to download every NZB of every file you want for 1 month or untill you have built up several GB of stuff to download (I usualy wait untill I have 100 GB of stuff I want)

Now goto www.usenetserver.com and sign-up for the $3 for 3 day trial.

in these 3 days, simply download all the files you have collected over the month. Providing your ISP gives you 500k/sec download or more (thats 4.0mbps download or more), you should be able to net 129GB or more in 3 days of downloading.

Simply do this 3 trial thing again (signup with a different user account each time), everytime you have another 100 or so GB of files to download.

Im with rogers but the cap is not enforced in my area so Im able to do this.

Ive used this technique for the longest time and it works wonders. If you want constant usenet access (maybe you download over a terabyte a month or something?), usenetserver.com is still the best at only 18 CDN a month or even less if you buy the 3 month package.

dsstest · Newcomer Joined: 05 Nov 2023 Posts: 2

brilliant, i have to try this

ROGuERS · Member Joined: 03 Jul 2023 Posts: 134 Location: hell