I'll ad some stuff to this tutorial here you might add it to the first page if you want topic starter.
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There are also very good free usenet clients like grabit which i always use. It works just perfect.
I search for the stuff i want at
www.binsearch.net.
You can try a free trial at this site no bill stuff required:
http://www.xlned.com/. i don't now if it's also in english but dutch isn't that hard
Then there is also the fact that much internet providers have their own newsserver which is most of the time free when it's your provider. Like I use the free and good newsserver of my provider. I get max speed and all the files are complete.
The only thing is that the retention is only 3 days, so that's not really long. Retention means the time a similar document is on the server. So if you want longer you've gotta pay but I'm always fast as hack so i don't need to
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I Hope this information is useful to you guys, and get your fast downloads!
Bruin
Edit: I Just think about this:
Another big good thing about usenet is that you don't need to upload like bittorrent. So your internet speed will be faster since you don't upload and seeding stuff is illegal so....