Free binaries at cheapernews.com this week

**freeinvites** · 07-02-2009, 07:31 PM

delete

**ericab** · 07-02-2009, 09:24 PM

im sure many will;
why do you ask ?

**zot** · 07-02-2009, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by freeinvites

Is anyone going to sign up for their service? It's $8 per month, unlimited, on a monthly plan.
Best price I've seen so far.

Since this a very new company I would rather just watch them for a few months and see how they do. A lot of new companies jump in with fantastic prices, immediately get a lot of customers aboard, and then are forced to either raise prices or cut service (or both) because they're operating at a loss.

Maybe these low prices are just "teaser" rates, and they're alreasy planning to increase prices gradually starting next month.

As for the prepaid yearly price, I think it would be very foolish to pay for a full year to a company that has been in operation for less than a month.

Another point: Someone has been going around the internet registering at forums and claiming to be a customer of Cheapernews. These "one-hit-wonders" are usually shills - especially when newly-registered members immediately start plugging a company no one has ever heard of before. It has me worried -- whether or not this company Cheapernews can be trusted if they are resorting to gutter tactics like this.

The last usenet provider I've seen do this kind of fake-customer shilling was UseneXt -- and we all know how crooked they turned out to be.

**UsenetGuy** · 07-02-2009, 11:30 PM

Remember that the accounts might have unlimited bandwidth but it the speed you can reach is limited, as it shows on the signup page. Theoretically if it has a speed cap then it is not an unlimited account, if you were to leave it downloading constantly for a month at the full speed the plan allows then that would be the bandwidth limit (probably a couple TB but it is still not unlimited since you'd never be able to download more than that).

**dutchmaster420** · 07-03-2009, 01:57 AM

Astraweb replied back telling me to send results of a traceroute to them and cheapenews which i just did...will let you guys know when i hear back

**dfsadsadsa** · 07-03-2009, 03:20 AM

This is awesome $8 monthly, I am sold

**zot** · 07-03-2009, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by dfsadsadsa

This is awesome $8 monthly, I am sold

I am NOT!

I've seen a lot of usenet providers (resellers) over the last few years come online with prices that beat everyone else. As it turned out - none were a bargain.

Light users might not have a problem, but cut-rate providers often resort to throttling the heavy downloaders or kicking them off. That's what users reported about 100 Proof News, which was once the cheapest of the cheap providers (but it's no longer in operation today).

Megabitz was another reseller that came out with the lowest prices to be found. Users who bought their long-term plans were sorry they ever did - the service soon stopped working and didn't even answer emails.

Keep in mind that many of these new companies have zero experience in the usenet business -- or any other business.

Personally, I steer clear of new companies because I've seen too many people get burned by them, again and again.

But if you like to gamble, then go ahead and throw your money in this slot machine and pull the lever -- maybe you'll get lucky ... or not.