virgin media usenet?

[internetguy]

Hey

I used their usenet service a while ago, apparently now they use highwinds-media. Does anyone know what the current retention is?

Also, what is completion like?

[Stabhappy]

God aweful. I'm using it till I get enough cash to pay for giganews again, and the retention is about 110 days however there are many missing articals. You can pick anything after 4-5 days and there's a good chance it doesnt exist anymore

[Thomas.Fisk]

7 day binary retention.

Originally Posted by Stabhappy

God aweful. I'm using it till I get enough cash to pay for giganews again, and the retention is about 110 days however there are many missing articals. You can pick anything after 4-5 days and there's a good chance it doesnt exist anymore

give astraweb a look at

[HSp8]

Originally Posted by David F

give astraweb a look at

seconded - it's a billy bargain

I forced myself to use VM newsgroup server for one week to see how I'd get on - not abysmal, but not good enough

[broadbandking]

I used it when I was looking at using newsgroup I found it fine but you have to check NZB's sites regularly

[nemesis01]

I was using Giganews, great retention but Astraweb is far better value, less retention but rock solid full speed downloads all the time, I got it on a deal, $11 a month forever or something, bout £7.

Good stuff.

[toothy]

Originally Posted by nemesis01

I was using Giganews, great retention but Astraweb is far better value, less retention but rock solid full speed downloads all the time, I got it on a deal, $11 a month forever or something, bout £7.

Good stuff.

Seconded. Another good value (though less brilliant performance) service is Usenet-News http://usenet-news.net/ You start trying it at 2 dollars for a non-expiring 2 GB block. That's one heck of a lot of text messages!


==toothy==

[deakin]

If i can't get what i'm looking for from virgins own server i use usenetserver. they have a $3 for 3 days package.
i mostly get the full 20Mb speed from them also they give SSL in the price. Slight downfall is that they only have
105 days retention but for about £2 i think it's quite good value.

[browney]

£2 for 3 days.

Astraweb is $11 (About £6.80) for a month

[Jonathan90]

Are you sure its 7 days? i got stuff of there 40 days.

[Argy1]

keen to sign up with astraweb, want to pay with Visa Electron...emailed them to ask if they take Visa Electron but no answer...anyone know if they do? says on website they take Visa, but that doesn't mean they take visa Electron

Originally Posted by Jonathan90

Are you sure its 7 days? i got stuff of there 40 days.

Assuming you mean the VM servers it will be binaries with 7 day retention, text groups will probably be longer. It also depends on how many posts a group gets - the groups with most 'traffic' will have the lowest retention, simply due to the storage capacity being limited.

[General Maximus]

Visa is Visa (credit card) and Visa Delta (debit card). I think very very few places accept Visa Electron and Solo these days and if they do, they have a separate logo for them and emphasise the fact that they accept them.

Can you pay through paypal or something instead?

[Stabhappy]

Most places accept solo, actaully.