[NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) in Filesharing Software http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r8860785 en Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:11:53 EDT Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:11:53 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9063959 anon : I signed up for the Octanews 3x128 Kbps speedcapped acct for $55/6months, but so far only get about 50 Kbps combined via the 3 connections allowed. At the same time, I get over 350 Kbps via my free teranews acct, and have checked my settings on NewsPro -- doesn't look like the bottleneck is on my end IMHO. I emailed their support last night, so stay tuned. Any ideas/suggestions are appreciated, of course.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9063959 Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:12:55 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9015749 drmorley : My news connection (2Mbps) was maxed out for about 20 hours of every day that month. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9015749 Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:24:47 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9015663 Tony :
said by drmorley See Profile:
I downloaded 450 gigs in December for $15. I don't know of many other providers can compete with that.
Holy crap, you would have to max out your bandwidth for a solid 13~14 days. That's impressive. I thought I was doing a good job floating around 150Gig a month on a 1.5M connection
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¤For your ears¤ ¤For your eyes¤ ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9015663 Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:14:20 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9014269 MikeStammer : I have been a big newsfeeds supporter for a while, but decided to try easynews. what a difference. I have never had it so good now that I am with easynews.

Dropshadow, you say you were having time out issues and whatnot. did you ever use their routing tool to set a static route? I routinely max my 6 Mb connection for both headers and bodies and I have some groups with 2 million+ headers in it. No problems at all so far. Here is the link:

»members.easynews.com/route/

I just wanted to say again how much I am impressed with easynews from a NNTP standpoint and their web interface. it is so handy and fast its crazy.

Hope you get things working better!
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Mike Stammer ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9014269 Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:07:37 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9014213 drmorley :
said by AR See Profile:
quote:
As for the service I heard nothing but praise with ridiculous speeds of ~1500KB/second (thats bytes not bits).


That's not consistent. Their header downloads can be painfully slow and the speed is usually consistent around 600-700kbps.


After spending a small fortune on Giganews I switch to Astraweb's $15/month unlimited plan about 5 months ago. I've got a 3.0/768 DSL line and hit my cap (2Mbps) on header and file downloads 99% of the time.

About two months ago they did some work on their servers that caused slow header downloads in the early morning hours, but they've fixed that and things are back to normal.

Their retention isn't the best, but as long as you keep on top of things you won't have any problems. I downloaded 450 gigs in December for $15. I don't know of many other providers can compete with that.

They might've been a sub-par provider in the past, but for the five months I've been using them I've been very very pleased with what they provide.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9014213 Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:56:50 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9012858 anon : Upon hearing all the good things, I decided to go Octanews speed capped account this month. So far, I am amazed. Definetely worth trading some speed for reliable retention and completion.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9012858 Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:25:27 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8964402 dvd536 : If agent is partnering with SuperNews and UseNetServer that just sounds like they're reselling the respective services. Agent is a well-known name in the usenet area (I was using that back in the windows 3.0 era)
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You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much Bandwidth]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8964402 Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:03:03 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8962921 Genius4052 : for the agent, does the unlimited broadband service mean that there download is unlimited meaning you can download as much as you can at their max speeds? cause im with newsfeeds atm and they are ok but i am not maxing my speeds with them and i can only have 3 connections max,can any1 who subscibes to the unlimited broadband option with agent plz post their mimi review of it. greatly appecated if any1 does. TIA]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8962921 Sat, 03 Jan 2004 00:21:59 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8961409 Toguro : Agent has a pretty good news service so far 1 connection uses:) up my whole line 156KB per sec. highly recommend]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8961409 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:43:25 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8956475 Harddrive : wow, Agent does news service now!
Unlimited Broadband, $14.75, 6 ports, Unlimited speed, 10 days retention.
'When we decided to offer NNTP services, Forté did not want to reinvent the wheel. After considerable research, we chose to partner with SuperNews and UseNetServer.'
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Its cheap and good Retention. Its a lot cheapier than giganews. And I have found it to be just as good.

2 Gigabytes $2.95 4 ports
5 Gigabytes $5.95 4 ports
10 Gigabytes $9.95 4 ports
20 Gigabytes $19.75 4 ports
40 Gigabytes $38.95 4 ports
Unlimited Service Plans
Unlimited Dialup $5.75 2 ports
Unlimited Broadband $14.75 6 ports ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8956139 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:26:56 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8919659 EE2000 : I have the free 1Gig accounts for Giganews with comcast, but those go away fast. I've since switched to Newsguy, you get 15GB for $13/month. But the value is in the longer plans, I got the 6month for $50 plan, which is under $10/month for 15GB. They have a free trial, so don't take my word for it. *And they have a web interface*

The retention is pretty good, about 14+days in most MP3 groups, and at least 5 days in Movie groups (probably longer but I get stuff fast). When I first joined the completion wasn't as good as Giganews, but for the past two months it's been almost perfect.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8919659 Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:50:54 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8912355 ukmitch : Can't believe Easynews' Global Search - great!

Its web interface makes it almost easier to use for, say, mp3's than some of the NG clients. :):)

"Web Server

The Easynews web site contains every file posted to every Usenet newsgroup in the last 25 days. That's over 8 million files with hundreds of thousands of new files every day.
Bulk downloads are made easy with our Zip Manager. Put all your files into one easy to download zip file.
The web site also listens on port 81 to bypass broken web cache/proxy servers at your work or ISP."
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quote:
As for the service I heard nothing but praise with ridiculous speeds of ~1500KB/second (thats bytes not bits).


That's not consistent. Their header downloads can be painfully slow and the speed is usually consistent around 600-700kbps.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8896797 Fri, 26 Dec 2003 20:04:09 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8896582 Tony : I recently purchased 25Gigs for someone as a christmas gift from Astraweb. What made my decision was the flexibility of the Pay-by-Download Plans especially the "No expiry date on your credits" As for the service I heard nothing but praise with ridiculous speeds of ~1500KB/second (thats bytes not bits).
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¤For your ears¤ ¤For your eyes¤ ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8896582 Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:35:00 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8896414 JasonSVA : I definitely recommend Easynews. Can't beat the global search and the speed, retention and completion is excellent. IMHO, it's well worth the cost.

--Jason]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8896414 Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:09:26 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8895410 Xyrax : I use EasyNews and SuperNews. So far I've has zero probs with SuperNews while I've had intermittent probs with EasyNews. May want to give SuperNews a shot. Its a few bucks cheaper too.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8895410 Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:34:11 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8874959 anon : Usenetserver.com has always worked well for me. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8874959 Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:56:12 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8865143 dumwaldo : ROTFLOL...

the link i intended to post was »www.newsgroupservers.net/ ;)

and for the record it was some killer shit i was smoking :D

man am i a retard or what?

peace,
d-waldo]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8865143 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:58:39 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8865055 jmorlan :
said by dumwaldo See Profile:
check out this site for some pretty good info on different news service providers...»pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthre···id=14213
Hey, dumwaldo! What were you smoking? :huh:

I think maybe the site you were thinking of was:

»www.newsgroupservers.net/#NNTP

...or maybe it's another one.

Here's a couple more:

»members.tripod.com/~newscompare/chart.html
»www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html

Personally I recommend OctaNews which is probably too new to make anybody else's list. EasyNews is definitely the service I would buy if I could afford it.
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Before, when it was only 18 days max, the odds were that
if you tried downloading anything that was over 10-11 days
old, there was a good chance that those articles would
have been purged from their servers. Earlier today I tried
to download some stuff from a group I hadn't pulled headers
from in almost a month, and found that articles dating from
11/27 (24 days old as of today) were still on their
servers. This is for multipart binaries, BTW. If you're
using Giganews for text groups, the retention is probably
at least 90 days, if not more.
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BTW
as far as i know easynews is the only service that has a usable web interface, global search feature to search all newsgroups at one time, and access to 30 days worth of postings.

best of luck,
dumwaldo]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8862907 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:47:53 EDT Re: [NEWSGROUPS] paid news service recommnedations? (usenet) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8862371 Harddrive : I've had Giganews for sometime now. I've never had problems like you have with Easynews. When I retrieve headers or bodies, they max my connection of 1500/256. They just went to 30 days retention. You might want to give them a try.
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