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- UNLIMITED access
- 300 Days of retention
- Free SSL - Posting included
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want to try some different providers
was with Astraweb for a few years, btu changed to Frugal recently - £ 3.50 per month for 300 days retention - a bargain
After every year I look at different providers but always end up with Astraweb. Never have issues with their servers.
I have jumped around a bunch whenever I see a good deal. Currently with NewsGroupDirect Unlimited Plan for $5/month. Probably not the best around but hard to beat Unlimited for $5/month. Thundernews has the same deal going on now, http://slickdeals.net/f/6592554-thun...month-for-life, they are both Highwinds resellers, so you will basically get the same service from Thundernews as NewsGroupDirect.
If you're fast, or run an automated setup the above are fine. I'm not going to slag any provider, other than to say you need to be kinda nimble with Highwinds and Giganews is expensive. Having said that, the Astra $15/2 would be good for a US primary. And $6 cheaper than their $96 yearly if you can do math.
take a look at easyusenet, never had any problems and price plans for diff server download speeds.
Have used Astaweb for year, the ability too bulk buy bandwidth and use it when I want rather than per month was always a large factor in that choice.
If you are based in Europe, have a look at the Dutch providers.
yup easynet is holland
Sunnyusenet is worth a shot.
I'm using Usenetserver, the 10$/month Binsearch promo account. Unlimited, 20 connections and 1984 days retention, it working great for me so far.
I've been buying blocks from NewsGroupDirect when they have their sales (holidays mostly, but now they have "Terabyte Tuesdays" and "Happy Hours" promotions). Last year, I got 250gb blocks for $12, this year I added a 1TB block for $35. They've had 500gb blocks for $20, as well. The two promotions I mentioned have email notification available for when they go live. Check their site for info, it's well worth it.
I've been using Astraweb for several years with no problems. I guess it depends on what you download. I pay for the annual subscription.
yeah i do the annual astraweb
Helpful topic... thanks for all the ideas guys.. I've been looking to possibly change up
Hi everybody.....I notice nobody mentioned News Demon....I have been with them for 2 years now ...unlimited download $10. per month with free newsreader
Since I'm in europe I have no problem with the dutch providers, after having used for many years newshosting and astraweb, i left because of all the takedowns. Now, I have no complains.
Astraweb Europe with their offshore payment service which continually scares the jeebus out of my c/c company each time a payment is taken!
I'm in my second year with sunnyusenet and am pretty happy
newshosting here
I'll say I moved to Frugal news a couple of years ago and never looked back... the only issue is if you need to grab a really old nzb... other than that I don't ever recall it being down whilst a subscriber.
I've been using Newshosting... have always liked it up until recently. It seems my speeds have dropped to about 1/5 what they were. Has anyone else noticed this with them? How about you cnj411?
astraweb. Does have some missing posts but it has gotten better I feel.
if you're a Virgin Media customer in the UK, you get free access to their newsgroups (I think it's actually Highwinds servers)- only 30 days retention, but works fine as a backup (takedowns seem slower than others)
I am a fan of astraweb. Some content seemed to get pulled really fast last year, but I haven't noticed anything like that lately.
astraweb all the way
Currently using newsdemon in the US and it seems pretty good for ten bucks a month.
hitnews for me...fast and cheap.
Have anyone use Tweaknews? What's your experience with them?
I'm trying to find a good provider that does not have dcma take down issues...
Newsdemon is not that great, all of Catching Fire are taken down already....
I currently use providers from Europe. as long as you utilize par files, you'll get your movies.
which service has the lowest take downs?
i used to use astaweb for years but they started to do a lot of take downs, a friend hooked me up to tweaknews .i had them both a the same time everything astraweb could not do tweaknews did.i let astraweb go and have been happy with tweaknews.
Same here. Have been using Astraweb for few years now.Quote:
Originally Posted by minimalist
I've been using Astraweb for a good while myself. I've noticed, like jonsky13 said, that takedowns have been much more frequent the past few months.
I went to tweaknews after having takedown issues with Astra. Been satisfied. Get 30m even pulling from EU to USA.
been astraweb for over 3 years...haven't considered changing...is tweaknews that much better?
anything that is charging you $1 a day is OVERPRICED .SSL is must .usenetserver hit hardest .Almost everything gone
Newsgroupdirect has been pretty good for me. They have block sales pretty often. I think I got a terabyte for $35.
been on astraweb for years, even prior to signing up here. fixed at $11 a month. you need to be smart about updating credit card details when you get a new card. if they try to take payment and card is expired they cancel subsription and you have to set up new one at whatever deal is on at the time.