Whats your Usenetprovider?

[usuck]

Im using Xlned and for old Files Astraweb Blokkaccount.

[chakara]

Astraweb, 6€ a month for unlimited usenet access.
When it works, can't beat that :D

[Cabalo]

SimplyUsenet
Less than 6€ month, 8MB/s unlimited.
Very happy customer so far.

[whiteboy]

Astraweb




SimplyUsenet
Less than 6€ month, 8MB/s unlimited.
Very happy customer so far.
what made you go with them?

[Cabalo]

A promotion I saw at their site, and the feedback of a friend of mine.
They have 2 farms, one in .EU and another in the .US
Nearly 600 days retention, very few connection errors, and speed always maxed up.
I'm quite happy with them so far.

Have you read any bad feedback anywhere else ?

[unoriginal]

Usenetnow $10.19/mo and if not 600 days then its darn close.

[cooldude75ph]

Astraweb for me. Was with Newshosting a couple of years before...

[hdjunky]

Usenetnow $10.19/mo and if not 600 days then its darn close.

Blocknews here only cause i download not enough to cover an unlimited account but i got something 611 days and i was real surprised, i wasnt gonna try it for fear of wasting precious bytes but i took the gamble.

[AllSewnUp]

Some place there is a special link for Supernews that lets you get it for $9.99 a month indefinitely.

With free SSL, 30 Connections, and 400 days+ of binary retention I'll take it.


It says 400+ but I have downloaded at 560 and got it completed.


Plus I have a 6mbps down/512kbps up Comcast connection. I download at 1.5MB/sec on average and hover around 2MB/sec sometimes. I have no idea why or how. Also on torrents I upload at up to 250KB/sec and no less than 200KB/s.

I don't know why but that is weird.

Know it's a bit off topic, but if someone could explain that it would be nice. I had GigaNews Diamond for the longest that I was paying $15 a month for.....they did a special and then after the two months I'd go to cancel so I wouldn't have to pay $30 and they'd offer me two more months at half off. I did that for almost a year before they caught on. Then I went with Supernews since Astraweb gives me issues sometimes and I haven't had one single problem. They normally charge $11.99 but if you can find the $9.99 link they won't bump the price up.

[whiteboy]

A promotion I saw at their site, and the feedback of a friend of mine.
They have 2 farms, one in .EU and another in the .US
Nearly 600 days retention, very few connection errors, and speed always maxed up.
I'm quite happy with them so far.

Have you read any bad feedback anywhere else ?
Nah I just asked because I hadn't heard much about them. I'm sticking with astra until I find a reason for something else. Good to hear there are quality options out there.

[ericab]

i currently share an account with someone at simplyusenet; and they are fantastic.
i'm on the west coast of the USA, and my down-link speed (4MB/s) is maxed out anytime i use them (and their servers are in the Netherlands!).

my general use account is supernews. also fantastic. always maxed speed, and great reliability.

about a month ago, i cut ties with astraweb.

was a hard decision.



@ "Cabalo"

you are wrong.
simplyusenet has *no* US server farm
(...yet... as of April 20th 2010... they claim to be building a PoP here in the US.)

[Radon0r]

about a month ago, i cut ties with astraweb.

was a hard decision.

Any reason, other than price, that you chose to stop subscribing to astraweb? They seemed good when I was with them last year and I was thinking about going back, but I'm also open to alternatives.

[ericab]

for months their performance degraded (speed and article completion)
i tried to give them the benefit of the doubt because:
1- the price was right
2- their retention was top notch
3- their server farm here in the us peers with my isp (in other words, speed was *never* less then 4.10MB/s)

now; my speeds with them are around 2.5MB/s, and article completion is nothing to write home about.

my top picks are:
1- Supernews
2- UsenetNow (or BlockNews)
3- SimplyUsenet

[Skiz]

poll?

[ericab]

dooo eeeetttt !

[MultiForce]

Still with Giganews mainly because of the VPN and a bit of laziness.

[Hypatia]

I stick to Gianews. Tried Astraweb several times. First, it was very good and i frozen my account on giganews. But recently its been hard to upload to usenet via astraweb. Many incompletes. Dunno if they fixed it coz im back to giganews again

[Skiz]

If someone makes a list of providers, I'll make the poll.

[Hypatia]

There are too many of them to make a poll. I suggest making this list:
***********
Giganews
Astraweb
Newshosting
NewsDemon
Newsgoupdirect
UseNetServer
ThunderNews
Supernews
Easynews
Binverse
UseNeXT
Others
********
Taken from here http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-providers.html

The best are Ginaews, Astraweb and Highwinds. Thet got numerous resellers all over the world
Check it out
http://www.newsgroupservers.net/newsgroup_server_resellers

Though< if its possible you can include all of them ^^

[iLOVENZB]

Astraweb is sufficient for me. Haven't bothered looking for alternatives.

[ericab]

The best are Ginaews, Astraweb and Highwinds. Thet got numerous resellers all over the world


LOL... with the above statement, your basically saying that every news provider is the best.

not all resellers are created equal

pick one.

[Skiz]

Poll added.

[DSLFreak]

I have a block account with BlockNews.net.

[orb]

Supernews. Cheap, great retention, and is as fast as muh fiberz.

[pauk]

i use eweka its 7,50 a month with account sharing so i let 2 other people pay me 3,50 a month to use the account since i only need 3 connections

[Comfort101]

I used Astraweb and was quite happy with it. The support team was really helpful when I did have a problem also. I quite enjoyed my dealings with them.

[cherio]

astraweb as recommended by anchor dudes. i don't use resellers

[Jungleboy]

Eweka, maxes out my 50mbit and pay 7,50 and they have over 500 days of retention, works for me.

[mesaman]

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