Usenet provider question
 

As my usage changes so does the need for a pay monthly account.

At the moment I DL in the region of 20gb'ish per month & I have cancelled my $11pm Astraweb plan.
I am looking for a pay-per-download package something similar to Astrawebs 180gb for $25.

Anyone know of any similar\cheaper products from other providers.

Cheers

Re: Usenet provider question
 

I use this: https://www.panic.com/unison/access.html

Quite good. Cheap. You don't need to use the application to access the service.

Re: Usenet provider question
 

Not quite what I'm looking for although the price is competative :tu:
I'm trying to get away from the pay monthly scenario due to not actually downloading that much. Rather than pay $xx per month I would rather pay £xx per set GB amount then top up as required, The Astraweb $25 for 180gb would last me about 6 months which would work out @ $4pm saving me $5-7 per month.

Trying to economise :D

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I use this one.

http://www.usenet-news.net/

What attracted me was being able to buy blocks that don't expire as I don't download regularly.

Never had any issues and they also do SSL access...


:)

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Oh, I apologise. I didn't read your question fully. :dunce:

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There's very few that do the "pay as you download" packages

https://www.newsdemon.com/join.php
http://usenet-news.net/index1.php?url=get
http://www.newsgroupdirect.com/signup/

They're the only ones I could find besides astraweb

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Looks good, prices are nice :tu:

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Thanks for the links Kymmy, as with berkut's post usenet-news looks good. 200gb for $22 i'll look a little more into that one.

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NP :)

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avoid newsdemon full stop. i used them a few years ago when i first got into usenet. had nothing but aggro with them. retention on their servers was iffy and server access was a pain in butt. and worst of all their c/s & t/s is worse than vm's bangalore bob.


i suppose there was a reason that they were....cheap, they weren't wrong.