IPv6 is the way of the future, so much so that many Usenet hosts are offering free access to their networks if you use IPv6 to connect.

We can use this to our advantage by downloading a program that tunnels your (old) IPv4 to IPv6.

Touching base on Usenet really quick as well…

The blue, green, and red dots on the servers represent the groups they carry. Arrows between servers indicate newsgroup group exchanges (feeds). Arrows between computers and servers indicate that a user is subscribed to a certain group and reads or submits articles. If you really would like to know more details, I’d suggest you check the Wikipedia article.

1. You’ll need to sign up for an account at gogoNET.
2. Be sure you verify your account via email, give it a few minutes, and be sure to check your spam folder if you don’t see it arrive.
3. Next you’ll want to download the gogoCLIENT.
4. You’re also going to need an IPv6 compatible Usent client, we recommend SABnzbd.
5. So now we can go ahead and install the gogoCLIENT.
6. After it’s installed, you may want to go into your network connections and rename your new connection to IPv6 Tunnel or something similar.
7. Now we can launch the gogoCLIENT.
8. Once you open the gogoCLIENT just click connect and let it connect to the Internet.
9. Try hitting the IPv6 Google page, if it doesn’t work try restarting your PC, opening the gogoCLIENT again and give it a few minutes before opening a browser.
10. Now we need to sign up for the Usenet server that gives free IPv6 access, to do that head over to XS News, and enter your email address.
11. You’ll get an email with a server address, username, and password. We’ll be using that in SABnzbd.
12. Go ahead and install SABnzbd now. Follow the installation and setup until you get to the Server Details page.
13. Now refer to your email from XS news, punch in the hostname, username and password into SABnzbd, also enter the connections as 10, leave the port field blank.
14. That’s it, you’re done, hit up your favorite indexing site, if you’re new, and want to try a free one, head over to http://binsearch.info to nab some nzb files for use in SABnzbd.

NOTICE: Usenet server are generally as reliable as their cost, and since we are talking about free access here, it’s likely that the server will go down, so if you’re feeling so inclined, add the following servers as well, no username or password required, just set connections to 2.

• news.ipv6.eweka.nl
• newszilla6.xs4all.nl

Enjoy, hopefully this works out for you, and you can explore Usenet if you never have before.