PR on USENET

[badmojo420]

I would like to see new releases of PR hosted on usenet servers. Something like alt.binaries.games as an example.

These servers are flooded with pirated software, but they are also a good and legitimate way of distributing large sets of files. I pay for a giganews account and i get extremely fast speeds from them. But it costs money, so this method may not be for everyone.

But, with newsgroups you upload your data once and it gets mirrored to every other news server. So it's a better system then torrents, where you need people actively hosting the files in order to download them. And then you're limited to the speed of the person hosting. With most newsgroup servers you are only limited by the speed of your connection.

For example, a dev would upload the release to usenet, and shortly after it is sent to all other news servers around the world, then the NZB(basically a file pointing to the location of the files, similar to a torrent file) file could be posted on the website, letting multiple people download it all over the world, all at high speeds, and no one server being lagged down by the sudden burst of traffic.

Whenever i download off the current PR servers, i get around 400-800kb/s and it jumps around quite a bit. When i download anything off usenet i get 1200kb/s constant. Like i said, i pay for access to that server. But, i suspect other PR players have usenet access as well.

[Brummy]

Torrents are fast enough. Almost nobody uses Usenet tbh.

[waldo_ii]

I usually download PR at about 160kb/s. You can live to download at 400kb/s.

[charliegrs]

considering a new release of PR comes out about every 6 months i think i can live with just downloading it from the various mirrors that host it.

[Mora]

Every release was already posted on usenet, at least on mine.

Not by devs or anything though, just by some of the fans here.

I could only find the levels:

http://www.binsearch.net/?b=pr_0856_lev ... L)&max=250

[dominator200]

ye i get like 1.5mb dl speed off of play.net

[Ccharge]

750 kb average in any site in the central states, tahts about 40 mins for a gig. you must just have a crappy connection if you cant beat broadband.