
Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and select ‘Preferences’.ĩ. While it’s downloading continue to step 8.Ĩ. Grabit will load fully and begin downloading the grouplist. You be asked whether to retrieve a list of groups from the news server. Note: Your username/password are case sensitive! Be sure to enter them correctly.Ħ. If you selected the checkbox you’ll then be asked for your news server username and password. a free trial at Newshosting) select the check box and press next.ĥ. If you have a premium server (highly recommended, e.g. Once launched you’ll be asked to enter the name of your usenet server. If you missed this look for the grabit icon on the desktop and double click it.Ĥ. Before clicking “Finish” select “Launch Grabit”. When installing make sure ‘Associate Grabit with NZB files’ is selected.ģ. Double click the downloaded file and proceed to install. However, a premium service will always cost a few bucks.

If you’re not satisfied with Newshosting you can try other providers. If you decide that you like the service, you can stay on beyond the 14 days/30GB download limit and you will then start the account that you chose at registration. A credit card or PayPal address is required to register for a free account, but NO CHARGE will be made.

The free trial is for 14 days, which comes with up to 30 GB of downloads. This give you all the tools to start downloading from Usenet quickly, and guarantees fast downloads. For some people this is not a problem, their argument often is that they already pay a lot of money for high speed broadband access, so why not pay a little extra to get the best speeds out of it.įor those who are new to Usenet and want the easy route, we recommend trying a free trial at Newshosting. You need at least some kind of paid subscription plan to be able to get decent speeds on Usenet.

The biggest disadvantage is that high speed Usenet servers are not free. Sounds great, but let me start off with the downside to Usenet.
