View Poll Results: What Usenet provider do you use?

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  • Giganews

    11 13.92%

  • Astraweb

    38 48.10%

  • Newshosting

    5 6.33%

  • NewsDemon

    2 2.53%

  • Newsgoupdirect

    0 0%

  • UseNetServer

    3 3.80%

  • ThunderNews

    0 0%

  • Supernews

    4 5.06%

  • Easynews

    0 0%

  • Binverse

    5 6.33%

  • Other (Specify)

    11 13.92%
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  1. 04-21-2010, 05:51 AM #11
    ericab
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    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.)
    An Excerpt from: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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    Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather [...] I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.
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  3. 04-21-2010, 07:23 AM Newsgroups   -   #12
    Radon0r
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    Quote Originally Posted by ericab View Post
    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.
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  5. 04-21-2010, 05:30 PM Newsgroups   -   #13
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    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
    An Excerpt from: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
    by John Perry Barlow
    Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather [...] I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.
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  7. 04-21-2010, 05:31 PM Newsgroups   -   #14
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    poll?


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  9. 04-21-2010, 11:52 PM Newsgroups   -   #15
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    dooo eeeetttt !
    An Excerpt from: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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    Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather [...] I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.
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  11. 04-22-2010, 12:36 AM Newsgroups   -   #16
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    Still with Giganews mainly because of the VPN and a bit of laziness.
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  13. 04-22-2010, 07:32 AM Newsgroups   -   #17
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    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
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  15. 04-22-2010, 07:36 AM Newsgroups   -   #18
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    If someone makes a list of providers, I'll make the poll.


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  17. 04-22-2010, 09:15 AM Newsgroups   -   #19
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    There are too many of them to make a poll. I suggest making this list:
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    Giganews
    Astraweb
    Newshosting
    NewsDemon
    Newsgoupdirect
    UseNetServer
    ThunderNews
    Supernews
    Easynews
    Binverse
    UseNeXT
    Others
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    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/news...rver_resellers

    Though< if its possible you can include all of them ^^
    Last edited by Hypatia; 04-22-2010 at 09:16 AM.
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  19. 04-22-2010, 09:30 AM Newsgroups   -   #20
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    Astraweb is sufficient for me. Haven't bothered looking for alternatives.
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