MATREYA  I paid for this software on Sept 29 2008, and for the most part it works very well.

However, I have noticed that if used over a period of 3-4 days, eventually NZB Drop will start failing to work, downloads will slow to a crawl before eventually the app stops responding at all....

I will now look at quitting and restarting the app on a daily basis to see if this allows me to avoid the problem.  
(Version 1.2)

SHENZHOU  This is a very good program when it works. I registered this last year and it was working for one and a half months. After I decided to forsake Easynews and added Newshosting and Newsguy, the multi-server feature that is supposed to work would queue all files even those that were downloading half way.

I wrote to Ascar Corporation twice, once on their website following a few weeks later by an email to the developer who had sent me the serial number. In neither case did I receive a reply. I have been waiting since.

Therefore be forwarn that if you buy a license there is no support although the deveoper's website claims otherwise.  
(Version 1.1)

JUAN KER  Causes my intel mac mini with Tiger 10.4.9 to crash:(  
(Version 1.1)

RPAEGE  Version 1.1 fixes some annoying bugs and works very fast and reliably. I was somewhat worried about the price, but at the time that I bought it I couldn't really find a good alternative. The only other half-decent product I could find was way over-priced even compared to this product, so that makes this a value alternative.

This is the way to go if you have frequent large downloads and you have access to NZB files.

Hellanzb is fine for those who are comfortable working with compilers and command line tools, but NZB Drop is for the rest of us.  
(Version 1.1)

HAGOUN  Hellanzb is very nice but Nzbdrop is way faster, at least for me (ap. 20% faster)  
(Version 1.1)

TRONDAH  Seriously, the only decent downloader for any OS is hellanzb. It will download PAR files as necessary, repair, extract, sort and notify via growl. Truly a "one click" experience once set up correctly. SABnzbd isn't even worth mentioning.

http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/  
(Version 1.1)

OCEANCUBED  All these downloaders are nice, but they cost money.

Try: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sabnzbd/

Once you have this installed on your mac, downloading from Usenet (newzbin.com) becomes a 1 mouse click affair.

Works perfectly in Tiger.  
(Version 1.1)

RPAEGE  Version 1 of this nifty utility needs a bit of work - it tends to slow down by dropping connections when it encounters incomplete parts — but the interface is nice, it's pretty snappy, and if you have a good news server, it's can download really fast.

I still haven't figured out when or how to save NZB downloads status, and the app doesn't really prompt me consistently to do that, so closing a window can cause you to lose your place when downloading. There is also no way to have it automatically assemble incomplete parts, so you must select them yourself from the list and choose a menu item.

In order to get NZB Drop to resume downloading at full speed after it drops connections, you must unqueue waiting downloads, wait 'til the current download is finished, then start downloading the newly unqueued files. It will then resume using all available connections.

My feeling is that this is really still a beta release of this software, but given the current over-priced or full newsreader alternatives, this is very welcome utility and worth the money even if you do have to babysit it's download queue. Hopefully the problems will be fixed in the next version.  
(Version 1.0)

ROB  Trial does not connect to server.

No connect window shows.

Purchase of product refuses to process info at web site.  
(Version 1.0)