Usenet Providers

[williammorris]

it's not and they are brill. if you want to use my account for the rest of the month feel free. theres no person details on it and I can send you the login. I no longer have cable

[Mr Mot]

So with Gibi now shut down, who's everyone moving on to?
I may go back to demon.

I had been real happy with the Gibi service too!

[web_wizard]

I have only just noticed this thread so thanks for reviving it. Its interesting that some people have found that on fibre pro, they are not maxing out the bandwidth on astraweb. This is who I use so when my fibre is upgraded to pro i will report back to see if i experience any issues

[drt1710]

I'm currently with usenetserver and paying $39.99 every 3 months, service has been great tbh. But reading through this thread, I could be paying a lot less. My $39.99 works out roughly £8.38 per month. Yet some of the prices you guys are paying are quite a bit less.

Having looked at some of the other usenet co's, I like the look of Astraweb, reviews seem quite good, but on their pricing page I see "Unlimited 3 Months" for $19.99 every 3 months, half of what I pay!!!! The rate limit on that plan is 10Mbit which is fine for me. Can someone confirm that I've got this right, as, as far as I see it, I'll get the same speeds and service for half the money!!!! I'm looking at their price plans here
www dot news dot astraweb dot com/plans.html

Cheers

Duncan

[dragon2611]

Astraweb always have a special offer on, not sure if I'm allowed to post a link but a quick search for astraweb special offer on your preferred search engine would probably find it.

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I have only just noticed this thread so thanks for reviving it. Its interesting that some people have found that on fibre pro, they are not maxing out the bandwidth on astraweb. This is who I use so when my fibre is upgraded to pro i will report back to see if i experience any issues

It depends on what you're downloading, I'd guess it's dependent on how popular it is and how old it is i'd suspect older/less popular stuff isn't on as many of their servers or something. Given the amount of traffic these providers must deal with I'd be hugely surprised if they don't have some kind of load balanced cluster to handle it all.

It might also be worth making a few of your connections goto the US cluster, the max they allow on the unlimited is 20 simultaneous connections and that can be split between EU/US any way you like.

[web_wizard]

Just to report that i can get my full speed on astra web with fibre pro. Was downloading at 8.7mb/s earlier

[gorebrush]

Been using newsdemon as it's very cheap - max my connection @ 7.2MB/s

[dragon2611]

Be interesting to see what happens with usenet providers given PayPal has recently seen fit to block the PayPal accounts for a lot of them

Wonder if visa/MasterCard will follow suite


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[drt1710]

Usenet providers will surely just stop taking Paypal as a payment method, they'll get their frozen funds back after 180 days. Can't see (hope) Visa and Mastercard following suit.