----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Downloading Movies was "Waterworld" Programme distribution (longish)
> Or in a nutshell - obtain these first... > 1. Get a good news reading software. I plumped for NewsRover (allows > multiple connections and multiple news servers at same time), there are > others that are favoured by some here - must support Yenc encoding, used > by almost all movie downloads, should also support NZB files (an index of > all the messages that will re-create the movie file) I am using SuperNZB which is a free download and quite intuitive. Minor quirk which seems to be related to IE7 - .NZB files are saved as .XML which Super NZB won't open. Solution - in the "Save File" dialogue box, select "All files" in the bottom box and a filename ending in .nzb in the "Filename" box. > 2. Get a good news server - the cheap or free ones have very poor > retention - i.e you start downloading a movie and by the time you get to > the later parts its vanished. Personal choice is Astraweb, no time limit, > just PAYG, and reasonable rate - current offer of 90GB for 25USD IIRC. > 25days retention minimum. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Pipex server not only had alt.binaries.tv but the first progs of L&Q and WW were still available this week. Some of the non binary groups seem to go back years! Shame about their draconian bandwidth throttling though. I just left the PC downloading all night - Super NZB will let you queue several downloads. > 3. Get Winrar from RarLabs. Once you get used to it, dump Winzip - > winrar will do both. Only needed for WW episode1 so far and AFAIK won't be used for future episodes. -- Niall
