Usenetserver offering accounts for $10/mo for life

[unoriginal]

https://accounts.usenetserver.com/special/

$10/mo for the life of your account, offer valid for new subscriptions only.

Does anyone have any recent experience with Usenetserver? The last time I think I used them was when Dwight Ringdahl was still running the place before he sold it to Highwinds.

[SonsOfLiberty]

Highwinds sound like Astraweb at least so I've heard Astraweb stores data on Highwinds, I might be wrong. But Astraweb is only $1 more and are highly reguarded as the best, well tied with Giganews.

[saulin]

I used usenetserver.com like 6 years ago. Back then, they had lots of issues with incompletes but that was 6 years ago at least. They have been around for a while. That's $10/mo with unlimited speed? It sounds like a deal depending on their retention. Remember that Astraweb has 270 days of retention already for $11/mo.

[ericab]

im with astraweb


ill NEVER switch.


http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html



do your homework.



viva l'astraweb !


(thanks for letting us know though, srsly)

[unoriginal]

Im not advocating switching to UNS. Ive been with Astraweb for over a year now and have nothing but good things to say about them. Except for a couple small glitches getting the account set up I have been very happy with their service. Im not about to change for $1/mo. Also they are located on the West Coast like I am and that means several thousand fewer miles between me and the news server I am downloading from.

[ericab]

Highwinds sound like Astraweb at least so I've heard Astraweb stores data on Highwinds, I might be wrong. But Astraweb is only $1 more and are highly reguarded as the best, well tied with Giganews.

astraweb is their own entity, in no way associated with highwinds.
in other words.. astraweb is not a reseller, they sell themsevles and own their own network/fibre channel drives. (same with giganews....)
:fst:

[SonsOfLiberty]

They are, they have data stored on their high winds server, it was mentioned in another thrad about batman, check the batman thread.

[UsenetGuy]

Astraweb run their own backend, highwinds is an entirely seperate organization.

[SonsOfLiberty]

I'm quoting you here:


I think astraweb were probably asked to remove it for copyright infringement, seems to be there on a highwinds server.
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-newsgroups-79/t-thedarkknight20081080pbluraydtsx264-esir-348588


Were you just saying highwinds as in the "name of the server" or as in highwinds company.......?

[UsenetGuy]

On that post what I meant was I think astraweb were asked to remove it for copyright infringement but I checked on highwinds-media and they still have it. I could have worded the post a bit better :P

[SonsOfLiberty]

Ok, gotcha now :)

[UsenetGuy]

One very important thing for anyone reading this thread. There is no EU server.