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I use astraweb for mine, they have a pay as you go plan which gets you 180GB for US$25, the 180GB doesn't expire and you get 50 connections and unlimited speeds. I primarily use torrents but astraweb is great to supplement torrenting when you need to get something fast or something which isn't available on torrents.
There are some good ISP ones, like in Australia, the ISP, Internode offers both Giganews and Astraweb for free to their client. Too bad the internet is capped/shaped/raped.
I myself use Astraweb. It's been reliable for me and very inexpensive.
How can you tell how "good" the ISP is? Mine is Suddenlink. It is a 8Mb connection and has a 30 day retention, fine for new releases I suppose. What else must I consider in deciding how "good" it is, compared to pay servers?
Retention, price andcompletion rates....it all depends on what you like, I'm not a big download at all, but the stuff I like is very rare TV stuff i can't even rent or buy, I find myself grabbng stuff at 300 days all the time, 30 day retention (being free is good) really limits your downloading...take a look around Astraweb with it's prices and retention is hard to beat, others will dis agree, but there are more out there, blocknews, sueprnews, etc.
Hmm, I just tried an experiment. I started an nzb 100 days old (on the same suddenlink that says it has 30 day retention)... It's downloading fine. How am I to understand this? Is this normal? Or is something else going on here?
Well they must have a better retention then there advertising, is this your ISP's? If so, you contact them and ask them how big of retention they have. And are you sure it's 100 days old?
Well, I called the ISP. The rep kept repeating that "If it says 30 days, then it is 30 days..." (that's what's on their site info). BUT, so far, it's downloading whatever I throw at it! I've gotten stuff in the 200 day range as well. Perhaps they are outsourcing, but have just not loudspeakered it out to us clients? This is all very odd to me, but I'm not complaining :)
My ISP is Cox and they have one that only has 4 connections and there all 512 Kbp cap and I believe 30 day retention so I use Supernews (I might try Astraweb, but Supernews beats it by 1 dollar ^_^)
ISP > Astraweb Unlimited.