2011-05-16, 14:46
Hello,
I am giving the whole usenet, cp and sickbeard thingie a test ride. I am new to it and perhaps a bit slow so forgive me.
Some information for people not used to manually download from usenet would be useful, it is a struggle to put it all together.
I think most people figure out that they need a usenet account.
(astraweb seem to be the best entry level but if you want to testtride, giganews trial period is the way to go. Use paypal to avoid handing out card number in case you dont want to continue)
Where I struggled was the search providers, some more info in the config screen would help.
If you use a provider where you do not have an account => you get an empy file in the watch dir. If you use an account where you have no "credits" you get an empty file.
This were I found sickbeard a bit easier to get a quick test going. When I figured out the above issues I just unchecked everything except the free services (womble & sick beard index).
Any chance you will add some free providers, if nothing else for people like me do a test run?
If not this is what I finally figured out:
NZBMatrix : You need a VIP account - small 10years fee
Newzbin: You need to get credits...cant be bothered to read more than that so good bye.
NZBs.org: Don't take any new users
http://www.nzb.su: Ok! Up and runnning downloading! (only big bunny of course). You need to donate a small amount to upgrade but at least we can do some testing. Thank you.
Next step is of course to figure out what services are the best but the hardest part is always to fit all the pieces together.
Thank you for a great product!
I am giving the whole usenet, cp and sickbeard thingie a test ride. I am new to it and perhaps a bit slow so forgive me.
Some information for people not used to manually download from usenet would be useful, it is a struggle to put it all together.
I think most people figure out that they need a usenet account.
(astraweb seem to be the best entry level but if you want to testtride, giganews trial period is the way to go. Use paypal to avoid handing out card number in case you dont want to continue)
Where I struggled was the search providers, some more info in the config screen would help.
If you use a provider where you do not have an account => you get an empy file in the watch dir. If you use an account where you have no "credits" you get an empty file.
This were I found sickbeard a bit easier to get a quick test going. When I figured out the above issues I just unchecked everything except the free services (womble & sick beard index).
Any chance you will add some free providers, if nothing else for people like me do a test run?
If not this is what I finally figured out:
NZBMatrix : You need a VIP account - small 10years fee
Newzbin: You need to get credits...cant be bothered to read more than that so good bye.
NZBs.org: Don't take any new users
http://www.nzb.su: Ok! Up and runnning downloading! (only big bunny of course). You need to donate a small amount to upgrade but at least we can do some testing. Thank you.
Next step is of course to figure out what services are the best but the hardest part is always to fit all the pieces together.
Thank you for a great product!