newsgroups

[chazt]

anyone help trying to connect to news.virginmedia.com using grabit having problems with account name and password keep getting 482 error

what should i input into account name

thanks in advance

[yamar1]

anyone help trying to connect to news.virginmedia.com using grabit having problems with account name and password keep getting 482 error

what should i input into account name

thanks in advance

try posting in the pc problems section m8, p.s welcome to DK

[Bulld0g]

anyone help trying to connect to news.virginmedia.com using grabit having problems with account name and password keep getting 482 error

what should i input into account name

thanks in advance

If you were on blueyonder then it's still the old name not virgin.

news.blueyonder.co.uk

[Mr Pumpy]

anyone help trying to connect to news.virginmedia.com using grabit having problems with account name and password keep getting 482 error

what should i input into account name

thanks in advance

Not sure on the set up with Grabit, I use Newsbin pro and sometimes Agent.

[Mr Pumpy]

If you were on blueyonder then it's still the old name not virgin.

news.blueyonder.co.uk

Mmmmm, I was on Blueyonder and had to change it to Vm.

[Bulld0g]

Might be different then for different regions. But i had to use blueyonder to connect

[Mr Pumpy]

Can I just say that Newsgroups are the best thing since sliced bread.

[lebob]

You don't need a password.

[forntida]

Can I just say that Newsgroups are the best thing since sliced bread.

Excuse my ignorance(you generally do) but what exactly are newsgroups?

[krazylegz]

do you use torrents???

if so just think of them as a torrent except loads and loads faster.

they work on the same principal..

you download a torent file....you download a nzb file

torrents, you open torrent file with utorrent, bittornado etc.
newsgroups, you open nzb file with newsleecher, neewsrover, altbinz etc

you download file and extract using winrar, sometime with newsgroups you'll need to repair files with a proggy called quickpar.

you can either pay for newsgroups or use vermins free server, i choose to pay for the 200 day retention from giganews, eg....if you see a film that was uploaded 20 or 199 days ago you wont be able to download it on vermins free server but you could using giganews....

i can download a film on my 20 meg connection in about 40 odd mins downloads at 2.3mbps as you are relying on people letting you take it off their computer but downloading from a dedicated server that will download as fast as your internet connection allows

[forntida]

do you use torrents???

if so just think of them as a torrent except loads and loads faster.

they work on the same principal..

you download a torent file....you download a nzb file

torrents, you open torrent file with utorrent, bittornado etc.
newsgroups, you open nzb file with newsleecher, neewsrover, altbinz etc

you download file and extract using winrar, sometime with newsgroups you'll need to repair files with a proggy called quickpar.

you can either pay for newsgroups or use vermins free server, i choose to pay for the 200 day retention from giganews, eg....if you see a film that was uploaded 20 or 199 days ago you wont be able to download it on vermins free server but you could using giganews....

i can download a film on my 20 meg connection in about 40 odd mins downloads at 2.3mbps as you are relying on people letting you take it off their computer but downloading from a dedicated server that will download as fast as your internet connection allows

Thanks I think the news part was confusing me. I did not think it had any connection to uploading or downloading. I thought all that stuff was old hat as you can virtually listen to or watch anything you want on the internet if you know where to look. As usual I am wrong again.

[Mr Pumpy]

Forntiddler..

Newsgroups are discussion bulletin boards I suppose. Theres hundreds if not thousands of different groups all talking about different subject from around the world.
But it just so happens that you can post stuff like music, films and the like, basically all kinds of digital media. That means if you can post stuff like that you can also download it too.

There's good points and bad points about it. The main good point is you download at your proper download speed, your not dictated by some other geeks pc like on torrents.

A bad point is you can only download what is posted up, so you rely on the good nature of other posters.
Also its a bit more complicated to get the stuff you want because the big files are usually split into lots of smaller parts, so when you have all the parts you have to extract em and put em all together again and sometimes fix the bits that either arent there or don't work properly.

I'll stop rambling on but needless to say peeps who use newsgroups will tell yer they are well worth the hassle.



that is all....thank ~~~~.

[forntida]

Forntiddler..

Newsgroups are discussion bulletin boards I suppose. Theres hundreds if not thousands of different groups all talking about different subject from around the world.
But it just so happens that you can post stuff like music, films and the like, basically all kinds of digital media. That means if you can post stuff like that you can also download it too.

There's good points and bad points about it. The main good point is you download at your proper download speed, your not dictated by some other geeks pc like on torrents.

A bad point is you can only download what is posted up, so you rely on the good nature of other posters.
Also its a bit more complicated to get the stuff you want because the big files are usually split into lots of smaller parts, so when you have all the parts you have to extract em and put em all together again and sometimes fix the bits that either arent there or don't work properly.

I'll stop rambling on but needless to say peeps who use newsgroups will tell yer they are well worth the hassle.



that is all....thank ~~~~.

thanks.

how do you put them all together again. I have noticed those chapter thingies on You Tube. Just wondering. Also if i dont see it written down I will forget it. What were we talking about?