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[goodcow]

I had Verizon DSL, which came with one of the best Usenet servers around, with great retention, and no download restrictions... but as some of you know, I recently moved, and in the interim, I'm staying with a friend who has RoadRunner, where the news server is absolute garbage.

What are some good Usenet providers out there that don't charge insane amounts? I see big names like GigaNews charging $12 for 10GB, and I'm thinking, "I downloaded 6-7GB a day sometimes from Verizon."

Am I just screwed now?

 

[fennec fox]

www.easynews.com

$10/mo for 10GB, and if that's not enough, you can earn extra GB by doing stuff like filling out their survey or joining their grid.org team.

 

[Kon Tiki]

If you do not want to pay. Head over to alt.free.newsservers and see if you can find a good free server.

 

[goodcow]

www.easynews.com

$10/mo for 10GB, and if that's not enough, you can earn extra GB by doing stuff like filling out their survey or joining their grid.org team.

I saw that... that costs too much. I guess I'm just spoiled by getting unmetered newsgroup access for four years with Verizon...

Aren't there any providers that allow 3 or 5GB a day?

 

[fennec fox]

Stop warezing so much

 

[RedDwarf]

$10.00 may be too much, but it's actually a pretty good deal for 10 gigs. The speed's great as well.

 

[Rockman]

$10.00 may be too much, but it's actually a pretty good deal for 10 gigs. The speed's great as well.

Not when for $4.95 more you can get fully unlimited. www.newshosting.com Their retention is up to 18 days now on all the big binary groups.

 

[fennec fox]

Hey, that's pretty hot. Their download speed is ok and everything?

 

[Rockman]

It maxes out my connection. 4 simultaneous connections give me 3.5mbit download.

 

[Minotauro]

I use Easy News as well and I have no complaints. They have a huge selection of groups and they never miss message parts. Then again, I'm on dialup so the 6 gig limit isn't that big of a problem for me.

 

[goodcow]

Not when for $4.95 more you can get fully unlimited. www.newshosting.com Their retention is up to 18 days now on all the big binary groups.

$4.95 a month unlimited for text.

 

[Stryder]

newshosting.com are top dogs at the moment.

edit : To clear up any confusion between costs and text only accounts

$14.95 Single User Monthly (Unlimited Data)
Max of 4 concurrent connections.

(when you click on signup, click on the unlimited signup page link that comes up on that page).

 

[goodcow]

Thanks.

What does this mean though?
* Unlimited accounts do not include webnews access.

 

[Stryder]

It means you're going to have to use a nntp client to access their service, rather than rely on their 'webnews' thing, (sounds like they must have a web-based newsgroup browsing thing going on).

I suggest grabit from www.shemes.com

or if you want to avoid download headers all the time, check out newzbin.com in conjunction with NZB O Matic.

 

[goodcow]

Ah, alright. I use Agent anyway.

 

[Stryder]

Ah ok cool, that was just in case you needed a suggestion

 

[Smidget]

Try
www.usenetserver.com
or news.astraweb.com

I personally use the first one, max out my 3mpbs speeds all the time and there's pretty much no completion problems on any of the completely legal terabytes of freeware I download

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

I subscribe to giganews 10 for 10 and 90 day file retention

 

[God's Hand]

Giganews is the best. If anyone tells you differently, they are cheap and a liar.

 

[goodcow]

Giganews is the best. If anyone tells you differently, they are cheap and a liar.

They may be the best, but they're horribly expensive.

 

[Dez]

astraweb is what I use.. unlimited is the only way to go.

 

[The Shadow]

astraweb is unlimited for $10 but they cap your download at 600kb/s.

 

[RedDwarf]

I used Giganews for about a year and found their speeds to be much slower than Easynews overall. I was getting about 200 down from them and closer to 350 or so from Easynews. Their online search engine is great as well if you're looking for something in particular.

 

[shuri]

9gb a day?