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Power Usenet 200 Days
« on: February 07, 2009, 05:08:33 AM »
whoa :o

http://www.powerusenet.com/

probably means giganews will announce something soon perhaps?
(since they're a reseller)
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 01:44:46 AM »
Giganews are going to have to do something soon, i bet they have lost a lot of users to astraweb already.
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2009, 06:26:57 PM »
Quote from: Wibblefish on February 09, 2009, 01:44:46 AM
Giganews are going to have to do something soon, i bet they have lost a lot of users to astraweb already.


well they certainly lost me to astraweb
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2009, 07:45:13 PM »
Quote from: johnjay on February 09, 2009, 06:26:57 PM
well they certainly lost me to astraweb


yeah, me too =]
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2009, 05:45:49 PM »
Giganews has been at 240d retention for a while now
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2009, 04:59:00 AM »
Quote from: gameid on February 11, 2009, 05:45:49 PM
Giganews has been at 240d retention for a while now


Yeah i think he means that if a giganews reseller offers 200 days at a much reduced cost, then giganews themselves will have to either increase retention again or drop their prices to separate themelves from their resellers and make them seem better value.
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2009, 05:22:42 PM »
So recent Astraweb converts, what is the general consensus?? I've been with Giganews for almost 7 years now, but am seriously considering switching to Astraweb, the pricing looks great. How are the U.S. servers? Completion? Retention? Speed?
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2009, 02:35:30 AM »
I've been with them for about a month here in the US. 
Completion is good so far, very few issues, with the rare ones the pars fix the rars well. 
Retention is now officially 180 days (growing to 270), haven't tried much around that older age though.
Speed - consistent 1.5 MB/sec with a comcastic connection (can get ~5 MB/sec with comcast burst speeds)

I'm satisfied so far.  Not so much with comcast, I've finally installed Tomato firmware for the router to monitor all bandwidth.
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2009, 05:17:16 AM »
Quote from: johnjay on February 17, 2009, 02:35:30 AM
I've been with them for about a month here in the US. 
Completion is good so far, very few issues, with the rare ones the pars fix the rars well. 
Retention is now officially 180 days (growing to 270), haven't tried much around that older age though.
Speed - consistent 1.5 MB/sec with a comcastic connection (can get ~5 MB/sec with comcast burst speeds)

I'm satisfied so far.  Not so much with comcast, I've finally installed Tomato firmware for the router to monitor all bandwidth.


I'm gonna give them a shot for the 3 month deal. I canceled my Giganews acct. today but its good till 3/4/2009. I've been hearing good things about Astraweb.
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2009, 06:09:38 PM »
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2009, 07:59:09 PM »
Quote from: johnjay on February 17, 2009, 06:09:38 PM
go for the $11/month deal

http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html


Thanks, I just signed up. I wasn't seeing that option before?
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Re: Power Usenet 200 Days
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2009, 09:27:46 PM »
So far so good, They are maxing out my ISP line. Free SSL. This is going to save me $20/mo. Every little bit helps these days, that's a case of beer.  ;D 
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