fonzbear2000
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Saint Paul, MN
1 edit |  Sign up at Astraweb now to pay $11/month for LIFE!
»www.news.astraweb.com/specials/k···-11.html
"You will pay $11 for every month as long as your subcription remains active. We will not raise the price"
It's the UNLIMITED, FULL speed account too!
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pr1mo
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join:2003-11-12
Harwood Heights, IL
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| I can't believe I'm going to say this but I might actually leave Giganews (been a member for 2+ years). With Astraweb's growing retention and $11/month price, why should I stay with Giganews? Maybe to keep my Newsleecher subscription, but that isn't a big deal, I can just purchase the program as a standalone. |
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NewsgroupRev
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| reply to fonzbear2000
Cheers to Astraweb! I wonder if they will keep the deal going as they get closer to 270 days retention. Either way it's a great deal for those that get in on it.
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scarney
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Madison, WI
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| reply to fonzbear2000
sweet deal. i currently subscribe to the Unlimited DSL 3month at $39. i kind of like not having to pay another bill every month. but this i cannot pass up!
appreciate the heads up fonzbear2000!!
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spanglo
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join:2004-05-17
San Diego, CA
|  reply to fonzbear2000
Its a good deal, but I recently experienced serious problems with their billing.
I was charged 4 times last month. The multiple charges appeared at the same time and knocked my account into the negative - I got 4 NSF fees as a result costing me over 100 dollars. Had my account not been overcharge i would not have had a single NSF fee. I've opened several tickets explaining what happened and have not heard a reply from Astraweb for over a week. Piss poor service IMO. |
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brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | reply to fonzbear2000
The best deal I got was for 2 years of newsgroups with 20 SSL connections and 200 day retention for $192.99. |
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Neoworld
join:2008-11-21
| said by brianiscool  :The best deal I got was for 2 years of newsgroups with 20 SSL connections and 200 day retention for $192.99. Who was that with? |
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brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL
1 edit | It is »www.xennews.com/ |
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DaveO
join:2001-09-05
Easley, SC
1 edit | reply to fonzbear2000
I'm not sure that's all that great of a deal. Altopia has an unlimited Usenet download account for just $6/month, and it's not a special deal. |
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swintec
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Alfred, ME
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| reply to brianiscool
You must have gotten in when the exchange rate was good. 2 years is € 260,00 = 344,55200 U.S. dollars plus a tad extra for SSL based on todays exchange. Unless you had a coupon?
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JohnQPublic
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join:2002-03-22
Xanadu
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said by DaveO :I'm not sure that's all that great of a deal. Altopia has an unlimited Usenet download account for just $6/month, and it's not a special deal. That don't look good.
»https://www.altopia.com/retention/retention.html
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Stem Bolt
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join:2002-11-08
Cleveland, OH
1 edit | reply to brianiscool
said by brianiscool :The best deal I got was for 2 years of newsgroups with 20 SSL connections and 200 day retention for $192.99. That's a long commitment for a Usenet service. Service and retention can change for a provider quickly. Going for good to bad, ect. Currently GigaNews is having retention issues, which I'm sure they are going to fix sooner or later. Probably with a huge retention increase. My point is that that if a MAJOR usenet provider like GigaNews can have issues (going on two months now) other providers can have service/retention problems.
Not saying it was a bad decision, for the price you got I might have jumped on it. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable committing more then month to month. With the recent retention increase announcements from AstraWeb and NewsHosting, I wonder if anyone who is locked into a long term deal with other usenet providers are regretting it?
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brianiscool
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Miami, FL | I have had membership with them for a year. The service has never gone down and I am very content with them. |
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Astrawberry
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said by pr1mo :I can't believe I'm going to say this but I might actually leave Giganews (been a member for 2+ years). With Astraweb's growing retention and $11/month price, why should I stay with Giganews? I made the $11/mo. leap to Astraweb four months ago from being with Giga 3+ years. I kept Giga for a month while trying Astraweb out. Other than a slight drop in download speeds and loss of 80 days retention I couldn't justify paying 3 times more for Giga. I've had zero issues with Astra and at $11 forever it's an unbeatable deal. SSL, 20 connections, no censorship. What more can you ask for. Should add that I never had a single issue with Giga--they were and are the best. I'm surprised to hear about the issues they are having, I was convinced they were immune  |
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Koil
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| reply to fonzbear2000
Sorry for the n00bishness (and I am pretty sure this is super n00b), but can someone explain to me the "Unlimited DSL Plan" they offer? They offer you a dedicated DSL line or something?
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swintec
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| said by Koil :but can someone explain to me the "Unlimited DSL Plan" they offer? The speed is uncapped...versus there $10 plan which is capped at 1 MBit.
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JALman
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join:2005-10-12
usa
| reply to Koil
said by Koil :Sorry for the n00bishness (and I am pretty sure this is super n00b), but can someone explain to me the "Unlimited DSL Plan" they offer? They offer you a dedicated DSL line or something? "DSL" has nothing to do with the broadband service; Astraweb's plan means that you can download as much as you want (no bandwidth limits) and your speed to their servers can go as far your connection speed goes. |
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Koil
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join:2002-09-10
West Columbia, SC
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3 edits | Ahh...ok, thanks guys.
I never got into usenet's. Was never able to find a reader that didn't make everything appear to be over complicated and never got the gumption to actually make it through the learning curve.
Maybe I'll have another go at it.
::EDIT:: Heya Swintec, LTNS...:) Our favorite person is still busy being....well, herself in one of the ticker threads (top of page 2): »Windows 7 as to Vista as XP is to ME?
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Stem Bolt
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join:2002-11-08
Cleveland, OH
| reply to fonzbear2000
AstraWeb:
quote:
Scheduled Service Affecting network outage
On 15 Jan 09, 8AM CET European time, we will be performing a router software upgrade on our European core routers. This will cause a network outage for our European farm. The outage will last approximately 5-15 minutes whilst our router is rebooted.
We will attempt to minimize the outage as much as possible. During this time, our service is still accessible from our US farm, us.news.astraweb.com
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Doobie
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| reply to fonzbear2000
Looks like a really good deal.
One question. It happens that some months my downloads are pretty high. I remember when I was with Newshosting that sometimes, download speeds would go down probably because of a cap. I have been the last 2 years with GN and never had that problem.
Are Astraweb downloads really unlimited? No caps?
Thanks
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