SSL or not? Usenet noob here...

[Westside]

I am going to signup for giganews for piracy purposes and I was wondering if SSL is worth the extra 5 bucks?

 

[lagman]

I think it depends on what are you gonna use usenet for, the place where you live and your ISP, I do not pay for SSL encryption.

 

[FAST6191]

SSL comes with an extra 10 connections, I find my connection (about 6Mbit by the time all is said and done) is usually maxed out via the US servers when I am in Europe from about 4-6 connections though.

SSL is good if you have an ISP that does the "traffic shaping"/port blocking bit (not sure how many do it in Canada these days however) as SSL traffic can be anything (and decrypting it is counted as a move against privacy (not to mention it is nigh on impossible)).

Privacy wise it is up to you, I am not aware of any cases offhand that peoples usenet has been used to do an IP lookup a la all the torrent stuff (primarily as it can not be used in that way).

 

[Flooded]

Is there some sort of tutorial using usenet I mean a overall tutorial not for just one provider?

 

[FAST6191]

There are usually several threads a month on usenet but one guide from sinkhead:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=74109

 

[jeklnoo]

The first rule of usenet is we do not talk about usenet. The second rule of usenet is WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.

 

[Sinkhead]

Why don't we talk about Usenet? It's not like it's a secret...

 

[Westside]

SSL comes with an extra 10 connections, I find my connection (about 6Mbit by the time all is said and done) is usually maxed out via the US servers when I am in Europe from about 4-6 connections though.

SSL is good if you have an ISP that does the "traffic shaping"/port blocking bit (not sure how many do it in Canada these days however) as SSL traffic can be anything (and decrypting it is counted as a move against privacy (not to mention it is nigh on impossible)).

Privacy wise it is up to you, I am not aware of any cases offhand that peoples usenet has been used to do an IP lookup a la all the torrent stuff (primarily as it can not be used in that way).

Bell Sympatico is known for throttling and port blocking, I'll take the SSL I guess...

 

[FAST6191]

Try one of the demos for a week or two (and make sure to try at different times of the day), if you are so inclined you can get someone to refer you:
http://www.giganews.com/referral_programs.html