Announcement for Giganews and NewsDemon Users, Please Read

[c0ld]

This is getting as tedious as Xbox 360 vs PS3 debates.

Yes, astraweb is almost half the price of giganews but giganews does have much better customer service and in general is much more reliable as a service than astraweb, is that worth paying a extra $9 a month for that? Not in my opinion but that's up to the user to decide if it's worth that to them. Astraweb fanboys who call giganews users losers or whatever for paying what they pay for giganews are sad, how does it effect you? It doesn't one bit, it's their money, get over it. This is from someone who uses astraweb.

Thanks for your input. Well done.

[jaymmmmmm]

Sorry, I couldn't quite keep it up there with your high standard of input with "giganews mugs"

[reg036]

I can say from personal use that I have been finding a lot more incompletes on Giganews recently then I ever have, I have been using them for 8 years as they were the longest retention for a long time and a solid company.

https://filesharingtalk.com/threads/4...=bounty+hunter

Here is a file that has been pulled on Giganews but is available on Blocknews. I've been using my backup more and more lately so dunno, might be a time for a change.

[mesaman]

I'm having no trouble downloading that post from Giganews. Why do you think it was pulled?

Don't forget that the Giganews value plans (Pearl & Jade) have only 30 days retention.

[reg036]

I've pulled 600+ day old posts from them so no value plan here but I could not get that post, it would start on PARs and then the rest of it would disapear real quick but had no prob on blocknews so Dunno, I'm SSL'd, Fios as service, so ????

[unclemilty74]

I personally can't understand all the hatin' on AstraWeb. I started with a Giganews account several years ago and paid $15-$25 per month at varying points. Then I found Astraweb's annual deal at $96 - that's $8/month!! Unlimited.... and I don't have Comcast so I can download 24/7 without getting ISP interference. I have just renewed for my 2nd year with Astraweb and have only had one outage by them, and it lasted less than a day. I have also no had any customer service issues - the only time I emailed, I got immediate response (i.e. within 24 hours). I'm not knocking Giganews either, because they also had good service response, but there were more outages with them. I've also never experience issues of Tv shows being deleted, but I didn't d/l TV shows back with Astraweb. I think they both have excellent retention of almost 2 years. I just pulled some stuff over 700 days as advertised through their web page.

But, to each his own.

[Skiz]

I can say from personal use that I have been finding a lot more incompletes on Giganews recently then I ever have, I have been using them for 8 years as they were the longest retention for a long time and a solid company.

https://filesharingtalk.com/threads/4...=bounty+hunter

Here is a file that has been pulled on Giganews but is available on Blocknews. I've been using my backup more and more lately so dunno, might be a time for a change.

"Pulled"?

I just downloaded that. With Giganews. In it's entirety. It downloaded and unpacked with no errors.

I don't see the problem.

[MrMoneybags]

Does the included VPN justify the $30/month Diamond plan though? I've never used VyperVPN but I hear decent VPNs do wonders when just browsing the internet in general. Giganews is apparently also offering this new Usenet browser thing, though I think that's just a dinky little feature that no one would really use. But I just cancelled my NewsDemon plan (I've had issues where ~400 day old files were very broken and I've had the issue this post is referring to many a time and it's gotten to the point where I just want to cancel) and I'll have no service on July 29th or 30th and I would like some advice. Are VPNs really worth it? If they are, is VyperVPN any good? If I were to go to Astraweb, what VPN would you recommend (if at all) that is relatively inexpensive but high quality? I'd appreciate any answers and help :-)

This is coming from a relatively n00bish person, but I do understand the basics of Usenet.

[c0ld]

I hear decent VPNs do wonders when just browsing the internet in general.

You herd wrong then, they just hide your traffic, but come with an overhead.

what VPN would you recommend (if at all) that is relatively inexpensive but high quality?

Any? They only cost a few dollars. Get one close to you if you want speed, or in another countries if you want some minor increase in protection from prosecution. Relakks? Hell, get your own virtual server and set up your own vpn, less chance of being blocked then.

[MrMoneybags]

You herd wrong then, they just hide your traffic, but come with an overhead.

That's what I mean. I've used proxies that literally turn my high speed cable internet into barely broadband.

what VPN would you recommend (if at all) that is relatively inexpensive but high quality?

Any? They only cost a few dollars. Get one close to you if you want speed, or in another countries if you want some minor increase in protection from prosecution. Relakks? Hell, get your own virtual server and set up your own vpn, less chance of being blocked then.

What service would you recommend for multi-national access? I do travel a lot, sometimes internationally, so I would like USA VPN, but I would also like international servers for security reasons. Not only that but I hear you can't get some things in the USA.