DB Newsgroup :)

[RedDevil_UK]

What's the binary retention on the newsgroup servers like?

i get about 10 days mate... and i have downloaded stuff that was 10 days old too
it says on the astraweb site that its 15 days....so it may have gone up since i joined??

http://www.news.astraweb.com/

 

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I get 2Mbps unlimited download with business-quality support from Pipex. They then give you a capped 10GB download capacity to their newsgroup servers, and charge £2 per 5GB extra. They also throttle the newsgroup download speed to about 750Kbps until you pay the extra, then you can run flat-out. The retention is almost as good as the so-called 'Premium' newsgroup services, which you would pay a lot more for.

Pipex also provide 50Mb high-quality webspace (which I use) and all the other usual stuff.

For this I pay £34 a month (plus any extra newsgroup capacity I buy). I think that's pretty good value, but if anyone can recommend anything better, I'll have a serious look at it.

The newsgroup access is essential to me. I use it more than any other web service.

Just signed up for the same service as I've been meaning to change for a while.
thanks for the info.

 

[BGonaSTICK]

Cool. I'd be interested to know what you think of the service after using it for a few weeks.

 

[chuckles]

Cool. I'd be interested to know what you think of the service after using it for a few weeks.

Scheduled for 2morrow, will let u know how it goes.

 

[chuckles]

Cool. I'd be interested to know what you think of the service after using it for a few weeks.

Up and running, very quick and no problems in 2 days.
Have not set uip for Newsgroups yet. Thanks for the pointer.
I do know there are cheaper options out there but dont think they include the newsgroups.