best news group server?

Journer

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so i'm thinking of getting a newsgroup server acct and i dont know who to go with...ive listed a couple in the poll, if you know more please tell me :)
 

FleshLight

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west.cox.net

It's free, has a 4 week retention, and caps you at 225 kb/s =)

That's a tv show in 25 minutes or a dvd in 4 hours.
 

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: FleshLight
west.cox.net

It's free, has a 4 week retention, and caps you at 225 kb/s =)

That's a tv show in 25 minutes or a dvd in 4 hours.

What's the catch?
 

Journer

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: FleshLight
west.cox.net

It's free, has a 4 week retention, and caps you at 225 kb/s =)

That's a tv show in 25 minutes or a dvd in 4 hours.

What's the catch?

cox reports you to RIAA >_<!!!
 

DaWhim

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Originally posted by: FleshLight
west.cox.net

It's free, has a 4 week retention, and caps you at 225 kb/s =)

That's a tv show in 25 minutes or a dvd in 4 hours.

duh, that's your isp.
 

FleshLight

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: FleshLight
west.cox.net

It's free, has a 4 week retention, and caps you at 225 kb/s =)

That's a tv show in 25 minutes or a dvd in 4 hours.

What's the catch?

You have to pay the $55 a month for the 6mb cox internet.
 

Qacer

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I found this via Google:

download speed:
newshosting 400-525mb/s
giganews 620-623mb/s

Xpat searching
newshosting - yes
giganews - no

retention
newshosting - around 30 days
giganews - around 70 days

number of simultaneous download threads
newshosting - 4
giganews - 10

price for unlimited
newshosting $14.95
giganews $24.95

I'm a Giganews user and so far have no negative experience (knock on cyberwood).
 

3NF

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I was an Easynews users for the longest time - their global search is great. But I recently switched to Giganews and use binsearch.info as a search replacement.
 

dwell

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Originally posted by: Homerboy
Does it really use NH????
yes
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Pretty cool. Saves me $15/m. Though you probably lose the anonymity you get with NH going right to the ISP.