Best current news server.?

[brap]

I moved from Astraweb to Tweaknews. So far, so good. Completion rate seems to be higher on Tweaknews.

[pokitisme]

i recently added tweaknews but after 4 hours i had to re add newshosting.tweak on the fast plan was way to damned slow.it was goin at about 300 kbs to maxing out at 1 mbs.so i had to re add newshosting for speed and am using tweaknews for dmca'ed files.my set up was giga and newshosting but what good is 2002 days of retention on giga if everything u try to dl is dmca'ed-so im gonna stick with newshosting and tweak for awhile as newshosting is cheaper and tweak is still getting the dmca stuff.by the way just for comparison when using newshosting or giga i was topping out at 4 + mbs and even with tweak/newshosting i still get 4 mbs.yea sure better and longer retention sounds great but what good is retention if most files are gone off of server and giga does not remove the headers they leave those up to make it look as thought those files are there then when u dl the and are able to click on the header the file is 403.so u see a header but file is 403-----what a jipp job.i asked them why that was and the answer was the file had been removed due to dmca-----so why leave the header and remove the file---because it makes it look like there is more than there is ---ITS CALLED PADDING THE SERVER.---by the way on gigas dmca stuff u can dl the file and all of its parts but what u get is in the case of a dvd post is a rar file thats 50 mb's of space on ur hd but isnt really there either---it takes up space but is screwed up on purpose to be dmca compliant.

[jSchmiez]

I've been using Astraweb for a long time. Do i have any reason to change?

[chrisjan]

I use Tweaknews. Completion rate is very good, but the connection speed is not very good to my ISP.

[pokitisme]

i forgot to add that giganews's dmca takedowns have so screwed up things on their servers that some COMPLETE dl's will on my end drop to 2mbs while another complete post from the same poster or another in the same group will fly off the charts at 4mbs---this group is astronomy amongst many others-by the way ive been getting stuff all morn with great completion with tn.might i add chrisjan that a setup like mine is good im pullin files from at least 1348 days with perfect or near perfect completion with my above setup.i think giga is dead to me now with this setup .now 1 thing ive noticed im redl'ing boneless and ive noticed that tweak does not seem to be pullin headers but nh is.its a bit odd but this is a test period for me and i might add that tweak has a free trial period that is free .

[firepowergd]

for the last 9 years using newshosting.
had one problem where 3 days it didn't work ( like 4 years ago)

[jphorx]

I recently have moved from Newshosting to Tweaknews. I've found the speed to be just as good, and the completion rate is MUCH better. No turning back for sure!

[wintressdude]

USN was good for a bit, but Tweak is now better.

[MikeSmith298]

Also using tweaknews, spead to my ISP is about a 3/4 what I use to get with Astra, but completion is so much better

[souls]

Been with tweaknews for 18 mths good speed and retention