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This guide will quickly and easily get you up and running for usenet download access.
What you will need:
While we do recommend NewsDemon because of the number of options for premium accounts (i.e. monthly and block plans), and we do recommend XSUsenet because they offer a free service, we are not getting any sort of monetary kickback from either provider listed here. We encourage people to do a bit of searching and find a provider that's right for them.
1.) The first thing you need to do is choose your usenet provider and sign up. Even the free account from UX Usenet requires an account. The reason for this is because you will need to ever a username, password and server information into SABnzdg to download files.
2.) Install SABnzdg. This program is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux and runs in your web browser.
WARNING ABOUT SABnzdg: If you set the download folder to be the desktop, the program will search all the other folders on the computer and identify them as folders for downloading. If you delete those folders from the download list, SABnzdg will permanently delete most of the files in your folders. Most of your text, image and video files will be permanently deleted. Special Thanks to Brumous for informing us of this massive bug.
3.) Once SABnzdg is installed run it. You will be see a screen like Figure 1.
(Figure 1)
4.) Now it's time to configure the program. You should only need to do this once. Click on the Config button (A). You can go through here and configure things as you like, but the important one is Servers (Figure 2). Here is where you'll enter your NNTP Address (Host), the NNTP Port, your Username and Password. All this will be provided by your host. Click Save Changes. Click on Test Server to see if it can make a connection. If it can you're all set!
(Figure 2)
5.) It is a good idea to go into the Switches setting and under Post Processing uncheck everything. This should prevent the program from trying to automatically decompressing the files and deleting the archive files. The reason for this is because if one of the compressed files is damaged the program will still delete the successfully decompressed files leaving you with the only option of re-downloading files. This is the safest method to ensure your time (and bandwidth) wasn't wasted. (Thanks to ssj for this tidbit. See his post here.)
6.) Go back to the main SABbzdg window by clicking the Download button (Fig.1 - C). If you have an NZB file click the Add NZB (Fig.1 - D) button.
Click the Browse button and locate the NZB file on your computer. Then click Open and then Upload. This will add the NZB file to SABnzbd and automatically begin downloading it.
That's it! The file will download to your system and automatically unarchive the file.
(Alternatively, there is a program called Grabit that comes recommended by a few users here. While I won't be updating the guide to cover this program, it is easy to configure with their guided setup.)
ADDITIONAL GUIDE FOR USING PAR2 FILES TO REPAIR.
http://www.binaries4all.com/quickpar/repair.php
The guide is for QuickPar, but the updated version of the program is MultiPar. The steps should be the same.
Although if you use SABnzbd it has a built in PAR2 recovery method.
What you will need:
- SABnzdb - This is a small program that runs in your browser. You load an NZB file in it and it will download the files from usenet.
- a usenet provider
- (optional) NZBcc - NZB Completion Checker is a program that can load your NZB and verify all files are available for download. This is a great insurance so you're not wasting time downloading an edit that's missing files.
While we do recommend NewsDemon because of the number of options for premium accounts (i.e. monthly and block plans), and we do recommend XSUsenet because they offer a free service, we are not getting any sort of monetary kickback from either provider listed here. We encourage people to do a bit of searching and find a provider that's right for them.
1.) The first thing you need to do is choose your usenet provider and sign up. Even the free account from UX Usenet requires an account. The reason for this is because you will need to ever a username, password and server information into SABnzdg to download files.
2.) Install SABnzdg. This program is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux and runs in your web browser.
WARNING ABOUT SABnzdg: If you set the download folder to be the desktop, the program will search all the other folders on the computer and identify them as folders for downloading. If you delete those folders from the download list, SABnzdg will permanently delete most of the files in your folders. Most of your text, image and video files will be permanently deleted. Special Thanks to Brumous for informing us of this massive bug.
3.) Once SABnzdg is installed run it. You will be see a screen like Figure 1.
(Figure 1)
(Figure 2)
5.) It is a good idea to go into the Switches setting and under Post Processing uncheck everything. This should prevent the program from trying to automatically decompressing the files and deleting the archive files. The reason for this is because if one of the compressed files is damaged the program will still delete the successfully decompressed files leaving you with the only option of re-downloading files. This is the safest method to ensure your time (and bandwidth) wasn't wasted. (Thanks to ssj for this tidbit. See his post here.)
6.) Go back to the main SABbzdg window by clicking the Download button (Fig.1 - C). If you have an NZB file click the Add NZB (Fig.1 - D) button.
Click the Browse button and locate the NZB file on your computer. Then click Open and then Upload. This will add the NZB file to SABnzbd and automatically begin downloading it.
That's it! The file will download to your system and automatically unarchive the file.
(Alternatively, there is a program called Grabit that comes recommended by a few users here. While I won't be updating the guide to cover this program, it is easy to configure with their guided setup.)
ADDITIONAL GUIDE FOR USING PAR2 FILES TO REPAIR.
http://www.binaries4all.com/quickpar/repair.php
The guide is for QuickPar, but the updated version of the program is MultiPar. The steps should be the same.
Although if you use SABnzbd it has a built in PAR2 recovery method.