Reccomendations for news servers with unlimted downloads?

[Spac3d]

Hi guys, I am looking for news servers that allow for unlimited downloads. I found this, 100proofnews

Anyone have experience with them? Any others to add to the list?

Thanks

Spac3d

 

[SoylentGreen]

www.usenetserver.com

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
www.usenetserver.com

 

[slag]

I like newsreader.com. They dont have a published unlimited plan, but for 9.95/month, you can download 50 gigs. 100 gigs a month for $20.00 seems pretty reasonable to me.

The 9.95 plan automatically renews when 50 gigs or a month is reached, whatever is faster. I cannot tell you the upper limit on their speed because i am on 1.5 mb dsl and I get 140K download speeds all the time. The administrator usually responds to emails within 1 hour also.

 

[Pepsei]

If you are uisng Verizon DSL, i think their usenet server is unlimited and good retention rate too.

 

[abc]

how is their RETENTION and completion (newsreader).

I mean if you've seen easynews, nobody seems to match them... but easynews is 9.99 or so for 6gigs only.

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: slag
I like newsreader.com. They dont have a published unlimited plan, but for 9.95/month, you can download 50 gigs. 100 gigs a month for $20.00 seems pretty reasonable to me.

The 9.95 plan automatically renews when 50 gigs or a month is reached, whatever is faster. I cannot tell you the upper limit on their speed because i am on 1.5 mb dsl and I get 140K download speeds all the time. The administrator usually responds to emails within 1 hour also.

Hrmm... that would be okay, but I am sure I will exceed 50gb a month.... maybe even more than 100gb a month. I will try usenetserver.com next month. 100proofnews.com is okay... it wasn't as fast as I hoped. But the service was extremely fast to reply to an email.

If you are uisng Verizon DSL, i think their usenet server is unlimited and good retention rate too.

I used to have RoadRunner, and I think they offered unlimted downloads at your max speed, but RoadRunner was too expensive and I moved to WideOpenWest. They only allow 5gb/month per account.

Also, if anyone has a website link reviewing newsgroups, I wouldn't mind looking at that.

Thanks for the help guys

Spac3d

 

[abc]

reading newsreader.com's website and seems like retention for text groups goes 28 days and binary goes 10 days. easynews goes back about 25 days, which is really helpful for those peeps that may DL heavily for a few days and then step aside for a week or even to.

with 10days retention on binaries, if you're looking to DL something specific you have to watch your groups every other day... but 50gig DL limit is sure enticing.

easynews has been a paltry 6gig.

 

i use giganews. they are pretty fast for me.

 

[bozo1]

I use usenetserver happily after using many of the others in the past.

 

[abc]

my mistake, retention on binaries is not 10 days, it's 2 days. 10 days is for 'binaries.pictures' his website says.

 

[wedi42]

why wouldnt you use your ISPs news servers?
or do not all ISPs include it for free?

 

[aceO07]

A bit off topic, what's a good newsgroup reader program?

 

why wouldnt you use your ISPs news servers?

Most ISPs news servers don't carry all the binaries groups and their retention is low.

Originally posted by: aceO07
A bit off topic, what's a good newsgroup reader program?

For actual reading Free Agent is good. For binaries Newsbin Pro.

 

[dethman]

any other suggestions for good unlimited news servers?