best provider thats cheap

[flyinonice]

I just use some of the free newsgroups and rely on sick beard to grab stuff fast. If there is anything older I grab a trial account from a variety of places and use that. Don't have much trouble that way and don't pay a dime.

[vigor5000]

Im looking for a cheap provider to add on with Astraweb so I can get faster speed, any recommendations?

[justlooking]

40Mbit Usenetbucket would be around $4.60/month with a 25% off coupon, if that's still good. Nice to have a Euro server as a backup to an American company.

[fpsfreak]

40Mbit Usenetbucket would be around $4.60/month with a 25% off coupon, if that's still good. Nice to have a Euro server as a backup to an American company.

wheres the coupon?

[justlooking]

40Mbit Usenetbucket would be around $4.60/month with a 25% off coupon, if that's still good. Nice to have a Euro server as a backup to an American company.

wheres the coupon?

http://slickdeals.net/f/6780400-usen....net+Forums%29

[CyberCitizen]

I just use some of the free newsgroups and rely on sick beard to grab stuff fast. If there is anything older I grab a trial account from a variety of places and use that. Don't have much trouble that way and don't pay a dime.

Yes some of those free providers provide decent retention 850-1665 days.

[gweely]

Using Giganews, recommend, but more expensive than most

[Stabber]

Cheapest is xennanews , it's FREE

test.xennanews.com

no username or password required

[anon]

Cheapest is xennanews , it's FREE

test.xennanews.com

no username or password required

Interesting. What are retention, maximum connections and speed like on it?

[Beck38]

Im looking for a cheap provider to add on with Astraweb so I can get faster speed, any recommendations?

I'd really like to know what are you using for an ISP, and what is the route (do a tracert) from you to Astra(US/EU).

Most providers are at the same number of connections (20) as Astra, I easily 'swamp' my 30Mb/s with running 15 and I have swamped it with 10 (but keep at 15, leave 4+ for additional connex to EU server or for Blocknews 'when SABnzbd thinks it's 'necessary')

This is on Docsis3, not fiber (fiber in my area is literally one block away but they won't 'wire' my cul-de-sac due to back-room deal with Comcrud).

I'm 850+ miles from the Astra/US plant, as the fiber runs. And I go through a VPN on top of that (great server from that provider).

So until I see your route, I don't know why you're getting poor service speed/transfer wise.

More: Just fer fun, I needed to suck down a nice BD50 today, and set my SABnabD down to less than the usual (15) connections, and didn't see the throughput start to be affected (<30Mb/s) until I got below 8 connections. With 6, it was obvious.

Now, you also didn't say what kind of machine you are using, in my case, it's a 4-core AMD/P2 Black 3200Mhz+ with fair (not top of the line) ram, but top line WD/Black HD drives, and an older (for today, top line when built 5 years ago) Asus MB w/ gigabit lan. In short, for today, pretty middle or even below middle of the road. Yes, stuff gets 'old'. Not my 'best' machine, but those that are better are busy with other, more CPU intensive tasks ( recode city).

Maybe I got good internet (for what I throw at Comcrud every month I should!). I lust for fiber. I MAY move this summer onto FIOS so we shall see.