Who Is the best Usenet Provider?

[abum]

Edit: Speaking of HW, reddit mentioned a Newsdemon promotion: 5USD/mo. "unlimited" Maybe that's more your speed? Not sure how long that runs for, or if you can click on FST's ad and then enter the promo code?

Old news, but I signed up for that deal. It's real cheap, but not worth it imo after being with them for the past 1 1/2months

@ 12-13 connections I'm getting usually around 500-900kbps to their SSL EU/US servers, where as with Astraweb 12 connections = 1000kpbs (I only have a 10mb connection) all the time, consistently. Latency also seems really high for some reason vs Astraweb.

And recently I've had server connection issues with both the EU/US servers, as well as missing content on usenet (as in, "article not found") vs Astraweb, although that's more likely to be a Highwinds issue.

[exnihilo]

Anyone tried the newsleecher usenet server ?
I'm wondering how they are with takedowns

I'm also interested in this.. Especially with how long their retention is.

[MysticRiffs]

I use NewsLeecher, and they're not too bad... I think that, like most providers, they get picked on every so often to keep them honest, until the official cyberbullies go pick on another USP. If there's a way to indicate incompletes and known PW'd ups, though, it's beyond my ken.