Currently I'm with Usenetserver. I pay for the year at once and am coming up on my next payment window. Can some one recommend a better site?
Steve61
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Currently I'm with Usenetserver. I pay for the year at once and am coming up on my next payment window. Can some one recommend a better site?
Steve61
Try newsgroupdirect. They have decent rates and retention and I like the fact that they do non-expiring block accounts, particularly useful for the infrequent user like myself. They have decent flash sales as well if you subscribe where I picked up 1.5Tb for about $20 with SSL a few months back.
newsleecher is pretty good, unlimited leeching, 2000 days retention
Using supernews at the minute, well over 3500 days retention, stable, and cheap.
3800 days on text. Binaries are around 2k.Quote:
Originally Posted by bizzehdee
Im using frugal usenet. Low retention 300 days but i grab soon as. Cheap and cheerful and don't seem to have as many missing parts as astraweb.
I have always used iusenet ( now its called altbinaries.com) seemed like a good deal, but im not exactly sure what I should be looking for
Anyone using usenet needs, of course, a good 'primary' server AND a good 'fills'. Lots of folks use the Astra/Blocknews combination, others like the Supernews/Blocknews or Supernews/Astra (I've used all three, am currently on the Astra/Blocknews and have been for for about a decade).
Giganews is really good as a primary, but is VERY expensive next to the lower-priced spread. I've also used Unsenetserver in the past as a fills, and still have tons of 'bytes' there and occasionally take a look at them as a secondary when the other plants are having 'problems'.
A lot depends on what you're looking for; the usual bitches with pro-wresting and low-rent 'network' tv captures tend to drive folks to certain providers (usually non-US), but I have little if any trouble with Astra (usually the main butt of jokes by those of that crowd) in grabbing anything I'm wanting, INCLUDING tv captures of 'non-low-rent' tv shows (the better ones!).
If that changes in the future, I'll change my schemes. But I doubt it.
Most 'good' plants (like Astra and Giga) are pretty darn complete back to what I call 'day one', somewhere around July-August of 2008 (some 2000 days back at this point). Virtually all the indexers out there only go back about half that (NZBIndex or Binsearch, and the johnny come lately recent ones only a fraction of that). Built-in indexers in some newseraders that use the database of Giga and such, are much much better (go back the full 2000+ days).
In short, Usenetserver, if the price is right, is still a fairly good plants (US and EU), but I'd again have a 'fills' account of non-expiring bytes at a couple other plants out there just in case.
Try Frugal Usenet. $4.99/month or $50/year with UNLIMITED access
I've been using newsleecher 3.9 all this time and didn't think to even try their usenet service.