Astraweb upgrades retention to 365 days

[tnt]

retention capacity upgrade to 365 days

astraweb is pleased to announce that we have just completed an infrastructure upgrade to increase our retention storage to 365 days.

Currently our server storage capacity stands at 365 days.

Our retention is currently growing daily towards 365 days. The latest retention statistics as well as our retention capacity is available at:

http://www.news.astraweb.com/tools/stats.html

our retention growth is for all groups. Our retention growth also includes headers, unlike many other services that do not include headers as part of their retention growth.

Astraweb is committed to providing the best value service! :o

[ericab]

W. O. W.



let the games begin.

[dutchmaster420]

giganews has to lower their price to compete...the " best premium service" line giganews gives isnt going to work much longer

[Funkin']

That line hasn't been true for many months now. Giganews needs to decrease their monthly prices to half of what of they charge now for Platinum accounts to even compete with Astraweb.

Seriously, there is absolutely no reason to use Giganews at this point. You're just throwing money away subscribing to them.

[seh]

love it..

[mata7]

incredible this guys are doing a really great job

[Windy72]

Giganews has also announced 365 days. I do not know if before or after this but I am staying put on Astra. Giganews lower your prices.

[222MHz]

Astraweb is where it's at.. glad to be with them.

[dutchmaster420]

That line hasn't been true for many months now. Giganews needs to decrease their monthly prices to half of what of they charge now for Platinum accounts to even compete with Astraweb.

Seriously, there is absolutely no reason to use Giganews at this point. You're just throwing money away subscribing to them.


yea but theres still people out there who think b.c. giganews is 2-3 times as much as astra it must be better..."you get what you pay for"...which is crazy, ive used both and theres no diff between the 2 both just as stable and both maxed my speeds

also for those using astraweb they changed their server addresses...its on the news page check it out

[Funkin']

yea but theres still people out there who think b.c. giganews is 2-3 times as much as astra it must be better..."you get what you pay for"...which is crazy,

I just laugh when I read people type this. It's ignorance really. I've also used Giganews, and I see absolutely no difference between theirs and Astrawebs service. So in this case, this " you get what you pay for" excuse has me baffled. Considering you can get the same quality of service and more than half the price less.

[sassan]

One thing I have learnt from Marketing is that bringing down your price is a no non. Giganews might offer more connections and price that higher to make their current plans look cheaper.

Maybe I'm wrong.

But wow Astraweb is the best :D

[unoriginal]

Competition is great, isnt it? About the only reason to stay with GN at this point might be if you wanted access to their servers in Asia. I could easily see that being a selling point for some users. Otherwise Astraweb and GN both cover North America and Europe for everyone else. Now we need to get the nzb sites to up their retention as well.

[dutchmaster420]

astraweb has new server addresses for those who use them

https://helpdesk.astraweb.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=19

[the mighty]

Wow, looks like I've got no choice but to sign up now! The only thing is, now I have to sign up to a NZB site to make it worth it. Is Newzbin my best option?

[Overlord]

Nvm

[rippinitup4fun]

Excellent news. I am so glad I got on board with astraweb. They are by far the best and the cheapest.

@The Mighty Newzbin is a great resource to have combine that with this site and nzbsrus and nzbs.org and you will have all bases covered.

[the mighty]

Excellent news. I am so glad I got on board with astraweb. They are by far the best and the cheapest.

@The Mighty Newzbin is a great resource to have combine that with this site and nzbsrus and nzbs.org and you will have all bases covered.

Would you recommend paying for either Newzbin or nzbrus to take advantage of the 240 retention listings? On Nzbmatrix, for example, you can't download NZB's older than 20 days unless you become a ZIP member.

[dutchmaster420]

just use search sites like nzbindex.nl, binsearch.info, newzleech.com extc...use rar names to search and if its there youll find it

indexers are easier to find stuff if your new to nzbs...but anything thats on indexers are on search sites plus more that doesnt get posted to indexers

[cooldude75ph]

...also for those using astraweb they changed their server addresses...its on the news page check it out

Thanks for the heads up :D

[rippinitup4fun]

Excellent news. I am so glad I got on board with astraweb. They are by far the best and the cheapest.

@The Mighty Newzbin is a great resource to have combine that with this site and nzbsrus and nzbs.org and you will have all bases covered.

Would you recommend paying for either Newzbin or nzbrus to take advantage of the 240 retention listings? On Nzbmatrix, for example, you can't download NZB's older than 20 days unless you become a ZIP member.

I would recommend paying for newzbin. It is dirt cheap and during the holidays you can get it half off. Right now it is like 2 dollars a month. Nzbsrus is also dirt cheap but still allow 4 nzb downloads a day for free. If you have the means pay for both they are great resources. I have really no experience with nzbmatrix maybe someone else who deos will chime in. If you can only pay for one I would say nzbsrus, but I am partial to the layout and speed of nzb pre's there.

[GWashington]

I get much better speeds on a single connection and uploading to Giganews due to much closer proximity and great routing to their datacenter. But both max out my line over multiple connections. The upgrade in retention is always nice, but I'll go with Astraweb unless Giganews price drops or something.

There is something else I just thought about. I read elsewhere that Giganews has taken down some files or parts of the articles to comply with copyright claims, and I figure they get a lot more of these as the biggest provider. Anyone know about that issue, especially compared to Astraweb?

[222MHz]

I read elsewhere that Giganews has taken down some files or parts of the articles to comply with copyright claims, and I figure they get a lot more of these as the biggest provider. Anyone know about that issue, especially compared to Astraweb?

fuck no... 98.99% of shit on all the servers is copyrighted.. IF anything someone alerted them of illegal porn and I hope they'd take that out.

[Darth_Duane]

Just made the jump to Astraweb myself, but from easynews (I know, but the web interface was convenient) and couldn't be happier.

[GWashington]

I read elsewhere that Giganews has taken down some files or parts of the articles to comply with copyright claims, and I figure they get a lot more of these as the biggest provider. Anyone know about that issue, especially compared to Astraweb?

fuck no... 98.99% of shit on all the servers is copyrighted.. IF anything someone alerted them of illegal porn and I hope they'd take that out.

Obviously. But if a copyright holder submits a proper DMCA notice to the usenet provider, they will have to comply to meet the safe harbor requirements. So I've heard speculation that GN has complied at times but I'm curious if that's the case and if Astraweb has too.

[Darth_Duane]

fuck no... 98.99% of shit on all the servers is copyrighted.. IF anything someone alerted them of illegal porn and I hope they'd take that out.

Obviously. But if a copyright holder submits a proper DMCA notice to the usenet provider, they will have to comply to meet the safe harbor requirements. So I've heard speculation that GN has complied at times but I'm curious if that's the case and if Astraweb has too.

I could be wrong but I think if they have US servers they pretty much have to comply, however I think the copyright holder has to submit a certain file to be removed and given the fact that the same file with a different name will be up shortly after in most cases it's probably a moot point. Thankfully the majority of people still beleive that P2P is where all those nasty pirates get their ill gotten goods so I think usenet is still largely ignored.

[piratebot]

...

[CarpeNoctem]

Would you recommend paying for either Newzbin or nzbrus to take advantage of the 240 retention listings? On Nzbmatrix, for example, you can't download NZB's older than 20 days unless you become a ZIP member.

I would recommend paying for newzbin. It is dirt cheap and during the holidays you can get it half off. Right now it is like 2 dollars a month. Nzbsrus is also dirt cheap but still allow 4 nzb downloads a day for free. If you have the means pay for both they are great resources. I have really no experience with nzbmatrix maybe someone else who deos will chime in. If you can only pay for one I would say nzbsrus, but I am partial to the layout and speed of nzb pre's there.


you shouldnt recommend things mate, since your telling people to pay for something they can get for free on another site..

[Broken]

I would recommend paying for newzbin. It is dirt cheap and during the holidays you can get it half off. Right now it is like 2 dollars a month. Nzbsrus is also dirt cheap but still allow 4 nzb downloads a day for free. If you have the means pay for both they are great resources. I have really no experience with nzbmatrix maybe someone else who deos will chime in. If you can only pay for one I would say nzbsrus, but I am partial to the layout and speed of nzb pre's there.


you shouldnt recommend things mate, since your telling people to pay for something they can get for free on another site..

To may people newzbin is worth the price.
Myself being one that believes so. I usually jump in on the half price sale in January, and it cost less that $20 for a year.

[rippinitup4fun]

I would recommend paying for newzbin. It is dirt cheap and during the holidays you can get it half off. Right now it is like 2 dollars a month. Nzbsrus is also dirt cheap but still allow 4 nzb downloads a day for free. If you have the means pay for both they are great resources. I have really no experience with nzbmatrix maybe someone else who deos will chime in. If you can only pay for one I would say nzbsrus, but I am partial to the layout and speed of nzb pre's there.


you shouldnt recommend things mate, since your telling people to pay for something they can get for free on another site..

He asked so I told, as broken said newzbin is worth it to many. Not any one site has it all, newzbin is just another tool in the bag and I for one beleive it is worth the pennies a day it costs.

[Sometwo]

I've tried easynews, giganews, and astraweb and I couldn't be happier with astraweb. It's by far the best value for the money.

[steve413]

another satisfied astraweb customer here. been with them 2 weeks now since bailing on easynews and completion, connections and retention have been great.

[Windy72]

The King is dead, long live the King!:naughty:

[rvgdse]

<3 Astraweb :)

Extremely reliable source (completion/retention).

I can pull around 10MB/s from them normally :))

[GWashington]

I just realized how much more action this thread got compared to GN, which I think says it all.

[222MHz]

maybe we could get luckey, gn goes under and astraweb picks up the hardware, then we'll end up with 600 something days retention... lol...

To the the Giganews Staff that LURK these threads....... Offer me your retention for astraweb prices and maybe I'll think about looking into joining you.

[dutchmaster420]

its at 220:) today

[scarng]

Please do the math - I'm neutral as I have both services as I compare them
Here is my findings for those that are looking to compare one to the other:

As of Date 4/5/2009 14:11 GMT -5

Giganews


Total Newsgroups 109160
< 1000 Articles 88765 81%
Zero Articles 9507 9%
Alt.Binaries 13234


Astraweb

Total Newsgroups 37793
< 1000 Articles: 31983 85%
Zero Articles: 9112 24%
Alt.Binaries Groups: 9558


Binsearch Most Popular Searches

Top 100

Astraweb and Giganews had the exact same list for top 100
Astraweb on average had 14% less articles than giganews


Top 425


Not on Astraweb: alt.binaries.cd.image.highspeed
Not on Giganews: alt.binaries.multimedia.prince

[EyeBaller]

Binsearch Most Popular Searches

Top 100

Astraweb and Giganews had the exact same list for top 100
Astraweb on average had 14% less articles than giganews


Top 425


Not on Astraweb: alt.binaries.cd.image.highspeed
Not on Giganews: alt.binaries.multimedia.prince







Something isn't right in your stats, from Astraweb's Add a group page:


Usenet News Server - Add a Group
alt.binaries.cd.image.highspeed already exists. It has not been queued for addition. Please refresh your groups list in your browser.

[Rafinator]

Picked up astraweb as my first provider and i'm very happy.

[scarng]

My mistake, my vlookup was messed up.

[Beenieman]

I'm thinking of leaving giganews to save myself some money and even returning to torrents but before I do I was just wondering what I can expect speed wise rfom my 50MB connection on astraweb?

[tasker12]

I'm on a 1gbit home connection in Sweden and I pull around 18-25MB/s with 20 threads, so I would guess that u should have no probs pulling 50Mbits from UK... I know a lot of ppl who have 100Mbit+ here and every1 maxes out..

[UsenetGuy]

I'm thinking of leaving giganews to save myself some money and even returning to torrents but before I do I was just wondering what I can expect speed wise rfom my 50MB connection on astraweb?

I'm guessing that 50Mb connection is with Virgin Media? I've heard of a few people being able to max it out (47-49Mb/s) with astraweb, so you should be able to. :)

[Beenieman]

I'm thinking of leaving giganews to save myself some money and even returning to torrents but before I do I was just wondering what I can expect speed wise rfom my 50MB connection on astraweb?

I'm guessing that 50Mb connection is with Virgin Media? I've heard of a few people being able to max it out (47-49Mb/s) with astraweb, so you should be able to. :)

Yup Virginmedia ;).. So yeah before I head back down the torrent root I'm going to give Astraweb a try at beggining of next month when my giganews runs out and see how it goes.

Thanks for advice.

:fst:

[Buschwusch]

astraweb's plans are quite nice.
i would have joined giganews, but then discovered that their prices are only valid for a month...
astranews here i come.

[Beenieman]

My my month is up at giganews so gonna try astraweb out tonight.

[SonsOfLiberty]

You won't regret it, make sure you take off "auto recycle" on your Giganews account or they will go ahead and charge you for another month :lol:

[Quasit]

I guess Astraweb is saving money to be able to do this by closing down their support. Or has the support always sucked? It's been soon over 1 week ago I sent my question to them.
There's a Swedish ISP (fiberlan) here that's always been cheapest. They hardly ever answer emails and it's hard to contact them by phone. They aren't exactly liked and first choice when selecting ISP. Astraweb seems to be like them, cheapest but crap support.

[222MHz]

I guess Astraweb is saving money to be able to do this by closing down their support. Or has the support always sucked? It's been soon over 1 week ago I sent my question to them.
There's a Swedish ISP (fiberlan) here that's always been cheapest. They hardly ever answer emails and it's hard to contact them by phone. They aren't exactly liked and first choice when selecting ISP. Astraweb seems to be like them, cheapest but crap support.

I have never had a problem... Fire off another email?

[Quasit]

Why should I have to spam them to make them answer? I hate to be forced to do that.
Ok, let's see if they bother to answer this time. My bet is they ignore me again. Btw, I'm not being rude or angry in my "tickets". It's a simple normal question about adding groups.

"You will receive a response to your problem within 24 hours during the periods when our support staff are available"
HA! Right. That's bullshit.

edit: What a response Astraweb! You merged my two tickets. Lol. Answer expected next year or so?

[ericab]

stop spamming us with your email issues..
this isnt the right thread anyway.
move back to giganews already