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Unlimited Astraweb Usenet News Server $2.99 Monthly for Life [Existing Customers only]

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I don't know if this is a targeted promotion but you can try and see for yourself. The email did not tell when deal ends.

LABOR DAY DEAL
  • 80% Off For Life
  • Unlimited Speeds
  • 50 Connections
  • 3,750 Days Binary Retention
  • 1000GB Downloads
  • SSL Protection
  • US and EU Servers
https://www.astraweb.com/member/u...3_299_hero
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Created 09-08-2020 at 04:14 PM by ycetindil
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nyyankees2k3
09-08-2020 at 04:43 PM.
09-08-2020 at 04:43 PM.
Anyone know how it compares to news demon?
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mr.fabe
09-08-2020 at 05:24 PM.
09-08-2020 at 05:24 PM.
Same Highwinds backbone as Newsdemon. If you already have Newsdemon, then there is no benefit unless the price is lower.
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LogicX
09-08-2020 at 05:25 PM.
09-08-2020 at 05:25 PM.
Per https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers AstraWeb and newsdemon are the same — so best price wins!

However only 1TB/mo downloads may ruin this deal IMHO

Also FWIW I appear to have a $30/yr newsdemon account - so lower price than this. Similar deal can be seen here: https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/t/13989344
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Torelo
09-08-2020 at 05:36 PM.
09-08-2020 at 05:36 PM.
How do I get this deal? I went to the link but seems like you need to have an account already
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ycetindil
09-08-2020 at 05:38 PM.
09-08-2020 at 05:38 PM.
Quote from Torelo :
How do I get this deal? I went to the link but seems like you need to have an account already
Apparently it is for existing members. I edited the title.
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CyanCreature731
09-08-2020 at 05:48 PM.
09-08-2020 at 05:48 PM.
I thought I saw an offer for $18/year for one of the providers. Anyone else see that? How can I find that?
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michrech
09-08-2020 at 05:52 PM.
09-08-2020 at 05:52 PM.
A couple years (or so) ago, I started encountering lots of "incomplete" issues with Astraweb, so I ended up switching. Tried several, ended up on newshosting.com. No issues (that I've noticed) since. I do have a 'block account' with them, though looking at sabnzbd, it doesn't look like it's getting hit at all, which is good. Wink
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hbk72777
09-08-2020 at 05:53 PM.
09-08-2020 at 05:53 PM.
I used them from 2001 until a few years ago. I got sick of the Sunday night crawls (couldn't pass 120 kb on a 300MBs line). I used to pay $96 a year

Now I use Usenentserver for $20 a year lifetime and couldn't be happier
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job48
09-08-2020 at 06:45 PM.
09-08-2020 at 06:45 PM.
Quote from hbk72777 :
I used them from 2001 until a few years ago. I got sick of the Sunday night crawls (couldn't pass 120 kb on a 300MBs line). I used to pay $96 a year

Now I use Usenentserver for $20 a year lifetime and couldn't be happier
HOW do you get that deal?
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lucidsavings48
09-08-2020 at 08:03 PM.
09-08-2020 at 08:03 PM.
Never been on Usenet, so Idk what this is exactly. From the looks of it... is it just for news reading/watching? I think I'm missing something here because some are complaining about the bandwidth limits. Could someone kindly explain what this is for?
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frollic
09-08-2020 at 11:46 PM.
09-08-2020 at 11:46 PM.
Same kind of deal on Tweaknews, but for €2.99, instead of $2.99,
but it includes Privado VPN.

https://www.tweaknews.eu/en/landi...ve-special
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frollic
09-08-2020 at 11:51 PM.
09-08-2020 at 11:51 PM.
Quote from job48 :
HOW do you get that deal?
You keep your eyes open.

I've got an alert set up here at SD, that triggers on the word usenet Wink

https://slickdeals.net/f/13193614-newshosting-com-1-year-unlimited-1-67-mo-unlimited-usenet-w-zero-log-vpn-20-04
https://slickdeals.net/f/13166866-usenetserver-com-20-yr-unlimited-and-free-vpn

But I can imagine Covid made the companies less aggressive in their marketing, and fight over market shares this year.
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jump_and_drop
09-08-2020 at 11:54 PM.
09-08-2020 at 11:54 PM.
Quote from lucidsavings48 :
Never been on Usenet, so Idk what this is exactly. From the looks of it... is it just for news reading/watching? I think I'm missing something here because some are complaining about the bandwidth limits. Could someone kindly explain what this is for?
It's also used for downloading. It usually has really fast download speeds (depends on provider). You'll probably want to look into if you're thinking of using it. It's pretty big on movies and tv shows but some stuff gets taken down quick. You just need to find some good NZB providers. A lot of them are private and many are paid.
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nido
09-09-2020 at 01:52 PM.
09-09-2020 at 01:52 PM.
Too expensive
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