A lot of people know or at least heard about Napster, P2P, BitTorrent (or also known as just Torrent) but when it comes to Usenet, many might have heard of it but doesn’t know how it works or even how to use it. Usenet is a worldwide network of commercial grade servers that has been around since 1980! I wasn’t even born yet at that time and it’s already there until today. When BitTorrent was still new, it took me a while to figure out how it works to download stuff and the requirements to achieve faster download speed. The same goes with Usenet. If you haven’t heard of it, you will have to spend some time in testing a couple of a free Usenet newsreader that you find comfortable using it and configure to search for the newsgroup that you want. Here is a very good article about BitTorrent vs Usenet that you should read. It explains about Usenet’s advantage over BitTorrent on privacy, file availability, and download speed.

To make it simpler, there are paid Usenet clients such as Binverse that has everything integrated into it, making the whole process of downloading from Usenet much easier and faster with 256-Bit secure connections and no server logs. All you need to do is download and install the software, search and download. There is no need to worry about not having enough seeders and etc… Of course Binverse offers much more features than that which I’ve covered at the rest of the article.


Binverse setup installer is only 1.8MB in size and runs Windows (32bit & 64bit) and Mac OS. After installation, running Binverse will prompt you enter your username and password to unlock the features. Binverse is a paid software, so you’ll have to purchase subscription in order to receive the username and password.

Using Binverse to search and download files is just too easy. After logging in, there is a search box where you can search for files, text, photos or browse your favorite groups. Type in the keyword that you want to search and hit the Search button. Within seconds the search results will appear at the bottom of the software.

There are 4 useful buttons above the search result which is Open, Comments, Download and Preview. The Open button shows the files that are in the package, comments button provides information on the file, download button to start downloading the package. Finally the preview button is very useful to determine the quality of the video or audio that you want to download so that you won’t waste both your time and bandwidth in downloading something that you don’t want to.

By default Binverse uses the Atimto Usenet Index search server but you can change that to either NFONews.com, NZBMatrix or ngindex.com from the Settings. If you’re unsure which to use, it is best to use the default Atimto server. Other options for Download, Chat, Miscellaneous and Proxy Server in the settings are pretty straight forward and not too confusing, unlike a BitTorrent client that has a lot of technical configuration.

Binverse has a built-in automatic updater and installer from Help > Search for Updates. Currently it shows a new version of Binverse is available and can be installed but it is a 1.34 Beta release. I tried updating Binverse to 1.34 beta but Binverse couldn’t run after that. Reinstalling the old version fixes the problem.

If you love downloading files, have that extra money to spend but hate using BitTorrent or downloading from one-click file Hosting websites such as FileSonic, then go ahead and give Binverse a try to download files from Usenet. They do have 3 day trial period, which means that within the first 3 days you may try out their service and cancel anytime in the members’ area if you are not satisfied. Do note that if you do not cancel your account within the first 3 days of your membership you will be charged the price for the plan you chose upon registration. This trial system is actually implemented by Symantec for their Norton products.

I’ve read some comments in WoT and some claimed that Binverse contains virus. Binverse is just a Usenet client. By installing Binverse, your computer will not be infected by viruses. Only when you start downloading stuff BLINDLY without double checking the downloaded files and using your common sense, that is when your computer might get infected by virus. Just like an Internet web browser such as Firefox. We can download files using Firefox and get infected by virus, but it doesn’t mean that Firefox is a virus. Hope you get the picture.

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