Best Free Public Usenet News Server for NZBGet
If you are looking for the best free public usenet news server in active operation then you are in luck. Recently I have been delving into the wonderful world of Usenet, and with that comes NZBGet and the like. You will need to register an account, but once you do it really is 100% free without the normal monthly billing. You do not need to enter a credit card.
The best free Usenet news service that I could find is called XS Usenet. Once you’ve signed up, the news server hostname you will put into your client is free.xsusenet.com and the username they provide you with is a 12-digit integer such as 471970276921. The password is also provided to you at the same time and is a 10-digit alphanumeric password. The server does not require “Join Group”-command, not do they require TLS/SSL, you can leave the Cipher field blank and use the default TCP port of 119 or choose one of the supported ports: 23, 80, 81, 119, 443, 8080, 2323, 8181.
While downloading I’m averaging 350 KB/s (I know it’s not a lot, but what do you expect for free), and there is a 25GB per month max you need to be aware of as well. This is still the best free Usenet service you’re going to get, so you might as well take it. Use the available bandwidth wisely only for things you actually need, and use the Bittorrrent network for the rest. If you’d like to grab my list of current active public torrent sites then click here.
After testing the connection you should see:
Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/) is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980.[1] Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to Internet forums that are widely used today. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSs, though posts are stored on the server sequentially. The name comes from the term “users network”.[2][3]
A major difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another via “news feeds”. Individual users may read messages from and post messages to a local server, which may be operated by anyone.
Usenet is culturally and historically significant in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as “FAQ“, “flame“, Sockpuppet, and “spam“.[4] In the 1990s, before access to the Internet became commonly affordable, Usenet connections via Fidonet‘s dial-up BBS networks made long-distance or worldwide discussions and other communication widespread, not needing a server, just (local) telephone service.[5]
UUCP/Usenet Logical Map — June 1, 1981 / mods by S. McGeady November 19, 1981
(ucbvax)
+=+===================================+==+
| | | |
| | wivax | |
| | | | |
| | microsoft| uiucdcs | |
| | genradbo | | | | | | (Tektronix)
| | | | | | | purdue | |
| decvax+===+=+====+=+=+ | | | |
| | | | | | | pur-phy | | tekmdp
| | | | | | | | | | |
+@@@@@@cca | | | | | | | | |
| | | | +=pur-ee=+=+=====+===+ | |
| csin | | | | | |
| | +==o===+===================+==+========+=======+====teklabs=+
| | | |
| | | pdp phs grumpy wolfvax |
| | | | | | | |
| | cincy unc=+===+======+========+ |
| | | bio | |
| | | (Misc) | | (Misc) |
| | | sii reed | dukgeri duke34 utzoo |
| | | | | | | | | |
| +====+=+=+==+====++======+==++===duke=+===+=======+==+=========+ |
| | | | | | | | | | u1100s
| bmd70 ucf-cs ucf | andiron | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| red | | | | | pyuxh
| | | | zeppo | | | |
| psupdp---psuvax | | | | | | |
| | | | alice | whuxlb | utah-cs | | houxf
| allegra | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | +--chico---+
| +===+=mhtsa====research | /=+=======harpo=+==+ | |
| | | | | | / | | |
| hocsr | | +=+=============+=/ cbosg---+ | |
| ucbopt | | | | | esquire |
| : | | | cbosgd | |
| : | | | | |
| ucbcory | | eagle==+=====+=====+=====+=====+ | |
| : | | | | | | | | | +-uwvax--+
| : | | | mhuxa mhuxh mhuxj mhuxm mhuxv | |
| : | | | | |
| : | | | +----------------------------o--+
| : | | | | |
| ucbcad | | | ihpss mh135a |
| : | | | | | |
| : \--o--o------ihnss----vax135----cornell |
| : | | | | |
+=+==ucbvax==========+===+==+=+======+=======+=+========+=========+
(UCB) : | | | | (Silicon Valley)
ucbarpa cmevax | | menlo70--hao
: | | | |
ucbonyx | | | sri-unix
| ucsfcgl |
| | |
Legend: | | sytek====+========+
------- | | | |
- | / \ + = Uucp sdcsvax=+=======+=+======+ intelqa zehntel
= "Bus" | | |
o jumps sdcarl phonlab sdcattb
: Berknet
@ Arpanet
UUCP/Usenet Logical Map, original by
Steven McGeady. Copyright© 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman. Copied with permission from
The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation.[38]
Source [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
