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POWERUSENET

Usenet Special

50% off the first month

Recommended Usenet provider

Unlimited account 1m: $14.99 (15 streams // 401 days // No SSL)

Unlimited account SSL 1m: $19.99 (30 streams // 401 days with SSL Encryption)

Binary Retention: 401 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.powerusenet.com port(s): 119, 23, 80

news.powerusenet.com port(s): 563 and 443 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: 15 or 30

Best Usenet Provider

A Premium Newsgroups Servers. Powerusenet resell Giganewsservers. The service is solid, price is much better than Giganews. You get all the serious of Giganews, (and 30 connections) but with a bit less retention

PowerUsenet has increased retention to 401 days with no price increase. They have also increased connections on the secure plan (with SSL Encryption) to 30 and on the Power plan to 20. To mark these upgrades, new subscribers will receive 50% off the first month of service for a limited time. 

Note: Usenet.NET provides same service as PowerUsenet. They are sister site

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5/5

GIGANEWS

For a limited time Giganews is offering 50% off your first month of Diamond unlimited Usenet newsgroup access + a free VyprVPN account

10gb per month: $7.99

35gb per month : $12.99

Unlimited account 1m: $24.99

Unlimited account with SSL Encryption with 30 Bonus Connections 1m: $29.99 Giganews + VyprVPN free

Binary Retention: 545 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.giganews.com
port(s): 119, 23, 80

news.giganews.com
port(s): 563 and 443 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: 50 or 20

Giganews Offers VyprVPN Free to Diamond Customers

A Premium Newsgroups Servers. A bit more expensive than Powerusenet , but it's the longest newsgroups retention. Although the price is high, Giganews is recommended. Exellent service. Completion + retention were both excellent.

Giganews just announced a new VPN service (partnered with Golden Frog) for all Diamond customers. The service (called VyprVPN) helps ensure your privacy online. VyprVPN is free for all Diamond account customers through June, 2010.

=> Find detailed list and reviews of many VPN providers

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5/5

ASTRAWEB

Usenet Special

$11 for every month

as long as your subscription remains active

Binary Retention: 535 days Binary Retention !

Hostname:

General Server:
news.astraweb.com

European Server:
eu.news.astraweb.com

US Server:
us.news.astraweb.com

Ports:
119, 23, 1818 or 8080

Secure Server:
ssl.astraweb.com Port(s) 443 or 563

ssl-eu.astraweb.com Port(s) 443 or 563 (European)

ssl-us.astraweb.com Port(s) 443 or 563 (US)

Concurrent Connections: 20

Best Usenet Deals

There were a few stumbles a few years ago (Speed was very inconsistent and retention was not as good as claimed)

I have literally watched as this provider has gone from strength to strength. They are improving their service and they got goodexcellent prices ( retention is getting up there with the best in the business).

Highly recommended: Very nice speeds, excellent price, and good retention.

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5/5

SUPERNEWS

Unlimited account with SSL Encryption and 30 connections 1m: $11.99

Binary Retention: 350 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.supernews.com
port(s): 119, 23, 80

news.supernews.com
port(s): 563 and 443 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: 30

SUPERNEWS is Back !!!

Supernews launch a new website ( excellent site design) with a new plan: unlimited Usenet access for $11.99 a month. It's an excellent price. Supernews also offer 350 days binary retention, 30 connections and a excellent support tech.

I'm very impressed by this new unlimited usenet access !!! The retention is less than the others usenet providers... but do you need more ?

History: Supernews launch their first service in 1995, and was one of the leaders in Usenet providers. Recently Giganews buys Supernews corporate users(Outsourcing Services for ISP's and Corporations ).

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5/5

USENETSERVER

UsenetServer Usenet Special

$10 for every month or Only $95.40 per year (Comes to $7.95 per month!)

High-Speed Plan 1m: $14.95 (520 days w/ 10 connections with SSL)

High-Speed Plus Plan 1m: $17.95 (520 days w/ 20 connections with SSL)

Binary Retention: 520 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.usenetserver.com port(s): 23, 25, 119, 3128, 8000 and 9000

secure.usenetserver.com port(s): 563, 443 and 8080 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: 10 or 20

Highwinds bought UsenetServer last year (note: Usenetserver and Easynews are both owned by Highwinds ), they realized some investments (Multitudes of problems a few years ago: varying retention rates and ongoing connection issues (especially with their SSL server)

Now UsenetServer increase their service , they offer a efficient service , it's time to test "UsenetServer Discounts": One month at only 10 $ and yearly at Only $95.40 per year (Comes to $7.95 per month!)

Note: Newshosting and UseNetServer are not the same service.  They run off of two completely separate architectures:  Different servers, different storage and different NNTP architecture software powering the services.

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4/5

NEWSHOSTING

Newshosting Usenet Special

2 year NHXL account for only $189.60. (Comes to $7.90 per month!)

NH Unlimited 1m: $14.95 (520 days w/ 30 connections)

NHXL 1m: $19.95 (520 days w/ 60 connections with SSL)

Binary Retention: 520 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

NH Unlimited

unlimited.newshosting.com

news.ams.newshosting.com

port(s): 119, 23, 25, 80, 3128

NHXL

nhxl.newshosting.com

port(s): 119, 23, 25, 80, 3128

SSL ports: 443, 563

Concurrent Connections: 30 or 60

Since 2009 Newshosting improved their service (since they merged with Highwinds) and now reliability, speed (up to 60 connections), and retention are good.

They increased connections up to 60 connections !!! They have the industry's best conccurent connections.

The best deal is a 2 year NHXL account for only $189.60. (Comes to $7.90 per month!)

Note: Newshosting is not a Highwinds reseller, but it is owned by Highwinds.

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4/5

Binary Retention: 520 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.newsdemon.com
port(s): 119, 23, 25, 80, 7000, 8000, 9000

europe.newsdemon.com port(s): 119, 443 and 8080

useast.newsdemon.com port(s): 119, 443 and 8080

us-secure.newsdemon.com port(s): 563, 80 and 81 (Encrypted Access)

europe-ssl.newsdemon.com port(s): 563, 80 and 81 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: 10 or 50

Newsdemon is our favorite reseller of highwinds. Thay have launched a new website with new plans.

They now provide block account, ranging from 10GB to 1000GB accounts all at affordable prices, NewsDemon can now provide more solutions to fit practically any budget or need.

NewsDemon is offering unlimited Usenet access for $22.95 a month as long as your subscription remains active.

Newsdemon offers plans with 50 simultaneous connections !!! and good retention.

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4/5

Binary Retention: 500 days Binary Retention

Hostname:
news.binverse.com

Concurrent Connections: 12

Port: 119 or 563 with SSL

News service on the Usenet World, Binverse service includes free software for searching, downloading and exploring Usenet newsgroups. ( the software is pretty cool ).

Free trial is an excellent value: Binverse free Usenet trial includes 150 GB of downloads over 14 days.

Binverse launch a new Premium Unlimited plans. The new Premium Unlimited plans are available as either monthly ($21.99) or as 6 months plans ($119.99). It's a good value, don't forget that Binverse provide free software for searching, downloading and exploring Usenet newsgroups.

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4/5

Binary Retention: 540 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.simplyusenet.co.uk port: 119

news.simplyusenet.co.uk port: 563 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: up to 32

SimplyUsenet provide only Speecapped usenet account ( A speedcapped account is an unlimited account in terms of # of bytes downloaded ). They seems to be reseller of XSNews. All their plans include Unlimited Downloads, Free SSL Encryption and 540 days binary retention. Simply Usenet has 5 plans with rate limits.

The best speedcapped account offering around right now, the speeds to the UK were Excellent.

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3/5

Binary Retention: 510 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.newsgroupdirect.com port(s): 119, 443

news-eu.newsgroupdirect.com port(s): 119, 443 and 8080

news-ssl.newsgroupdirect.com port(s): 563 and 80 (Encrypted Access)

news-eu-ssl.newsgroupdirect.com port(s): 563 and 80 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: 20 or 10

A good Newsgroups Servers. Newsgroupdirect has been a long-time our favorite, I have never had an outage and they are increasing retention to 510 days.

Unlimited account with SSL at 20 $ is good but the price is higher than the average offered by its competitor . Support is great and Newsgroupdirect offer Free NewsRover software with every package worth $29.95

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3/5

THUNDERNEWS

Unlimited account No SSL 1m: $19.99 (425 days w/ 8 connections)

Unlimited account with SSL Encryption 1m: $21.99 (465 days w/ 20 connections)

Binary Retention: 465 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.thundernews.com
port(s): 119, 23, 25, 80, 3128

us.thundernews.com Port(s): 119, 443 or 8080

eu.thundernews.com Port(s): 119, 443 or 8080

secure.us.thundernews.com Port(s): 563, 80 or 81 (Encrypted Access)

THUNDERNEWS provides a good service (highwinds's reseller). A bit more expensive than Newsgroupdirect (other Highwinds's reseller) , but I have never had an outage and they are increasing retention to 465 days. Very fast support too - Live Chat is very efficient .

The unlimited plan (with Free ssl encryption) is a good value for money . Thundernews offer 465 days binary retention. They allow 20 connections too.

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3/5

Best Webnews interface (no 'newsreader' software required)

$9.98 for 20 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first (150 days of retention)

$14.97 for 30 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first (200 days of retention)

$29.94 for 150 Gigabytes or 30 days, which ever comes first (200 days of retention)

Binary Retention: 150 or 200 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

• U.S. NNTP farm address: news.us.easynews.com .
• European NNTP farm addres: news.eu.easynews.com .
• proxy.news.us.easynews.com (U.S.) and proxy.news.eu.easynews.com (Europe) listen on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 443, 8000 and 8080 to allow you to bypass firewalls or rate limits on port 119.
• FREE SSL support through our U.S. farm NNTPS - secure.news.us.easynews.com and our European farm NNTPS - secure.news.eu.easynews.com . These addresses will listen on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 443, 563, 8000 and 8080

Concurrent Connections: Unlimited HTTP and NNTP connections

EasyNews offers a completely unique newsgroup service unlike any other. It's web interface (no 'newsreader' software required) has been designed to make downloading binaries as easy as possible for new users. There are also many advantages that Easynews has over using standard NNTP 'newsreaders'. Users can also view media files as thumbnails, and also access an excellent search engine/NZB generator/header retrieval system.

Too expensive to use as prime newsserver if you're doing a lot of downloading but very good as a fill serve and ideal service for beginners.

Easynews is launching a new web acceleration feature called Easyboost. According to the images provided from their beta test results speeds were increased by up to 100%.

Here is some more info: www.easynews.com/easyboost/faq.html

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3/5

Ngroups.Net

5gb per month: $ 5.99

Unlimited account eco 1m: $14.99 | 3m: $39.97 (Free SSL encryption and 12 connections)

Unlimited account extra 1m: $19.99 | 3m: $54.97 (Free SSL encryption and 24 connections)

Binary Retention: 515 days Binary Retention

Hostname:

news.us.Ngroups.NET port(s): 119, 443

news.eu.Ngroups.NET port(s): 119, 443

news.ssl.ngroups.net port(s): 563, 80 and 81 (Encrypted Access)

Concurrent Connections: 12 or 24

A reliable usenet service. The price is reasonable and the support is great. Good download speed. Retention at over 500 days now. Free SSL encryption included.

The manually paid accounts can be paid via PayPal, Moneybookers or E-Gold

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3/5

Usenet-News

Only block account

Retention: 515 days

Hostname:

us.Usenet-News.net
eu.Usenet-News.net
ssl.Usenet-News.net

Concurrent Connections: 20 (But unless you have a serious speed issue we don't recommend using more than 5-8 connections)

Ports: 119, 8000, 23, 25, 1720, 3128, 443

ssl.Usenet-News.net only allows encrypted SSL connections on ports 443, 563, 8080

No other company offers such a large selection of sizes of never-expire blocks as Usenet-News (as little as 2GB per purchase). Newsdemon also provide Usenet Block Accounts

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3/5

3 gb 3 Day: $3.95 (metered account)

10gb: 1m: $7.95 (metered account)

60gb (Express) 1m: $10.95 (metered account)

50gb (Extra) 1m: $14.95 (metered account)

Unlimited account 1m: $19.95

Binary Retention: 300 days

Hostname:
news.newsguy.com

Concurrent Connections: 32

Ports: 119, 443

NEWSGUY provide nntp access and web usenet access.

NNTP: Newsguy provide unlimited and limited account (SSL included). They provide more than usenet service with too much options included: e-mail and web hosting !!!. Download speeds aren't always consistent and occasionally slow down to about 450 KB/sec (Expect a slowdown when using SSL )

HTTP: Web interface isn't good. Reliability and speed are average.

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2/5

Agent Premium Newsgroups (APN)

12 gb 1m: $2.95 (metered account)

25 gb: 1m: $5.95 (metered account)

70 gb 1m: $9.95 (metered account)

Unlimited account 1m: $14.75

Retention: 100 days

Hostname:
news20.forteinc.com

Concurrent Connections: 4

Ports: 119, 443

Agent Premium Newsgroups is a reseller of highwinds. A decent service. But just 100 days binary retention , NO SSL and Speed is average (Only 4 streams).

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1/5

YOTTANEWS

10gb 1m: $10.00 (metered account)
50gb 1m: $50.00 (metered account)
Speedcapped account 8mbit/sec 1m: 15 $| 6m: $75

Binary Retention: 30 days or 90 days ?

Hostname:
nntp.yottanews.com

Concurrent Connections:
Unlimited Account : 8
Metered Account : 8

Ports: 119

Problems with completion. Retention fluctuate. Just 30 days binary retention and no ssl

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1/5

USENEXT

25gb 1m: € 9.95

50gb: 1m: € 14.95

125gb 1m: € 24.95

Every package includes unlimited Downloads with up to 1 Mbps download

Binary Retention: Up to 500 days

Hostname: news.usenext.com or news.usenext.de

Concurrent Connections: ?

Ports: 119 , 443

The software thats included with your subscription is extremely good and easy to use but the packages are expensive. Anything they offer you can get twice as good for a cheaper price.

If you like free software for searching, downloading and exploring Usenet newsgroups, prefer BINVERSE

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