Astraweb Usenet News Server - Yearly Plan Special - $96.00 - (£60.62)
This has been posted a few times and then expired.
If you google.'Astraweb Yearly' the first link is as above for me.
It's also available for existing customers who should already be paying $11.00 per month.
Unlimited DSL - US$ 96 every year
Works out to be $8/month
No Speed Limits
20 Connections
Exactly the same as Unlimited DSL Plan
You will pay $96 every year as long as your subscription remains active. We will not raise the price.
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Jump to unread Post a CommentYour membership will automatically renew every 12 months, until it is canceled by contacting us.
That may well prove to be a good or bad thing. Time will tell.
It's my first and only newsgroup, but I signed up as recommended strongly here. Astraweb + NZBMatrix + SABnzbd is fantastic for me.
Couch potato is one I need to add.
Edited By: Lyrrad on May 21, 2011 19:43
Didn't know about SABnzbd either.
Good deal, I think if you pay via paypal they charge a horrible amount of money to change between currencies (I know they do on my monthly subscription) so probably better off paying straight through.
Would save me £12 per year, but I think i'll continue to pay £6 per month as I don't lose out if they close down for any reason.
Maxes my supposedly 50mbit virgin line at about 6.2MBytes/s and my other line at 11.2Mbytes/s (Be Jealous) has never not had anything i've tried to download. Better than that overpriced giganews rubbish.
Edited By: jacksonliam on May 21, 2011 20:17
As for the annual subscription to these guys I'll stick with my pay per 120Gb service from Astraweb at whatever price it is now (last bought 120Gb about 6 months ago at $25). As you can see it lasts me absolutely ages. That said I'm still downloading Axxos which on my solid 10meg take around 10-15 minutes a shot. Movie selection and DL is normally complete before plating up..
Here's a free one - edit maybe i'm not allowed to hotlink?
Edited By: RokkaMan on May 21, 2011 21:14
Been using astra for about 8 years now...
Usenet is the best.
http://www.slyck.com/Newsgroups_Guide
I'd like this, but don't use it enough to warrant it, TBH
Newshosting - $9.99 per month / $99.99 per year
Astraweb - $11.00 per month / $96.00 per year
EasyNews - $9.95 per month
UsenetServer - $10.00 per month / $95.40 per year
Won't post any links though :)
You won't look back.
To those that have not used usenet before, the biggest + is that you are not left wondering which file share host to use. I was consistantly in a position where what I wanted was not available on whatever file share host I was subscribed to.
Also there is none of the 'file not found' issues.
The learning curve is nowhere near as difficult as I had imagined.
I got the monthly deal (and have had for a while). Like Jacksonliam says, maxing out your 50meg line is a thing of beauty (+1 on NZB Matrix & NZBs r us, too)
http://www.supernews.com/#
i dont mind paying $1 extra as i haven't experienced any speed fluctation that i did on astraweb. overall astraweb is good though.
ng are great for HD & games and i generally use the matrix, matrixXXX and nzbrus. i don't rate ng for music so i still stick to what. for that.
You won't look back.
To those that have not used usenet before, the biggest + is that you are not left wondering which file share host to use. I was consistantly in a position where what I wanted was not available on whatever file share host I was subscribed to.
Also there is none of the 'file not found' issues.
The learning curve is nowhere near as difficult as I had imagined.
Too true. Initially I was a bit confused but once you sort out the server info properly in your program, and also get QuickPar sorted it's easy sailing.
So much faster than torrents (imagine a movie down in 15 minutes) and it's secure too (if you pay for it)