 Urnso
join:2001-02-26
Cleveland, OH | [Newsgroups] Bye Astraweb I had a few months on my year contract but it feels so good to send the cancellation notice and let them know that they are failing to provide the service they advertise. I found my new home and sure it costs a little more but the service is working! 
How many subs do you think have left? 1000's? It's like watching a great empire crumble. Sad..... 
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bbhog
join:2010-07-05
North York, ON | Yeah I left them at the end of 2011. I wasn't happy with the degrading service so I bailed. I've been with Highwinds since. |
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 AkFubarAdmittedly, A Teksavvy Fan
join:2005-02-28
Toronto CAN. | reply to Urnso
I'd like to dump AW too. If anyone has a viable alternative usent provider please PM me with some details. 
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 TOPDAWGPremium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
kudos:3 | reply to Urnso
yeah I'm going to can them too but got a few months lift from my yearly sub. akfubar PM sent. |
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 FrinkProfessorPremium
join:2000-07-13
Scotch Plains, NJ | Oh please, PM me too...I am not happy with AW. |
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Everyone should dump Astraweb like a bad habit. Astraweb aren't nothing but patsies atm and aren't worth a squirt of you know what. |
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Reviews:
 ·WOW Internet and..
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What kind of problems? I don't really have speed problems with Astraweb. They have US and EU servers, if either one is slow, the other one is usually fine. The only problem I have with Astraweb is automated DMCA takedowns, but it seems that most usenet providers are affected by it now. If anybody knows a usenet provider that isn't, or at least not to such large degree - pm me please. |
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AkFubarAdmittedly, A Teksavvy Fan
join:2005-02-28
Toronto CAN. Reviews:
 ·TekSavvy DSL
| said by JazzJRabbit:What kind of problems? I don't really have speed problems with Astraweb. They have US and EU servers, if either one is slow, the other one is usually fine. The only problem I have with Astraweb is automated DMCA takedowns, but it seems that most usenet providers are affected by it now. If anybody knows a usenet provider that isn't, or at least not to such large degree - pm me please.
Yes the takedowns are a major pain with AW. Their automated process takes down posts pretty much immediately.
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FrinkProfessorPremium
join:2000-07-13
Scotch Plains, NJ | Over the past few weeks on the US SSL server I have noticed speed fluctuations that I have never seen with AW before. Wild ups and downs, drops to 0kb, and back up to my line speed...I am pretty sick of it. |
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i also have AW and its a pain lately. would appreciate anyone sending me a PM with another provider. |
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 sfl0w
join:2010-07-20
Birmingham, AL | reply to Urnso
Newshosting is my secret sauce, well that and also a backup provider that will remain nameless  Astraweb = epic FAIL |
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TOPDAWGPremium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
kudos:3 | reply to Urnso
ok pm sent to everyone who asked. |
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 paulnrld
join:2001-11-15
Sun Prairie, WI
kudos:1 | Can you send that to me as well via PM? Been trying to figure out who to sign up with since AW dropped everyone due to CC billing change.
Thanks in advance! |
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 mmI Did It My WayPremium
join:2001-04-07
Summerville, SC
·Time Warner Cable
 ·VoicePulse
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I am curious why we need to PM the secret? I still have my AW account because I signed up for the 1 year deal but I also bought a 3 month deal at Tweaknews because of the take down non-sense at AW. I am not happy with TweakNews. Yes I can get what I need from them but their speeds are half at best what they claim. |
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kizer8
join:2003-08-05
Peoria, IL | reply to TOPDAWG
Can you send that to me as well via PM? |
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TOPDAWGPremium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
kudos:3 | reply to Urnso
no point to PM now MM is right give them a try. |
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Yeah thinking about leaving them also. |
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Rojo
join:2009-04-14
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Urnso
A download via Astra right now is coming in at under 1MB/s, but that's through a 7MB/s pipeline. And it's not the ISP because they test fine. It's Astra. |
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 THZNDUPDeorum Offensa Diis CuraePremium
join:2003-09-18
Lard
kudos:2 | Hummmmmm. I'm pulling over 2 Mbit/s from AW-US with just one thread while posting this. No problems getting 26 Mbits/s with more threads going( I usually use 10).
OK, bandwidth should be back, I'm done for a while............. 
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gfry22Premium
join:2007-07-26
Lakeville, MN | reply to mm
Tweak has been faster for me than AW. have 100 mbit down isp. average at night is around 75 mbit from tweak. Day around 40 mbit. Only complaint is tweaks header dl's are slower than molasses |
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