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Can someone please recommend an alternative to astraweb. I get a lot of "Aborted, cannot be completed" downloads with them, which is getting really annoying. Any help or recommendations would be great.
 
Usenet bucket is rubbish! I tried it when my tweaknews subscription expired, because they were cheaper. However alot of downloads fail due to DMCA takedowns i believe. Didn't even finish the month, before going back to tweaknews
 
I moved to Tweaknews from Supernews. I just paid for three months what would have costed me one month at Supernews.
 
mugikhan said:
I prefer them over any international news providers :)
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Do you know what their current retention period is? Site says 1700+ but was wondering if its been extended, Astraweb keeps extending theirs and is now at 2000+.
 
nahoR said:
Usenet bucket is rubbish! I tried it when my tweaknews subscription expired, because they were cheaper. However alot of downloads fail due to DMCA takedowns i believe. Didn't even finish the month, before going back to tweaknews
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I haven't had issues with Usenetbucket. Runs like a charm and I think it's the best value for money for people with faster lines (20Mbps - 40Mbps).
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I haven't had issues with Usenetbucket. Runs like a charm and I think it's the best value for money for people with faster lines (20Mbps - 40Mbps).
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Yep.

The idea is to have a cheap provider that is used for 99% of your downloads and a block account or two to fill up that 1%.
I also use UsenetBucket cause it's fast, and cheap - then have an astraweb 180GB block account and IS news to fill in any needed gaps.

You really don't need to pay loads just to get that 100% (if that is even possible)
Rather get a cheap unlimited monthly account and buy a block account with the "spare change" - then you have 2 providers instead of 1 "expensive provider", which will guarantee a better end result.
 
UsenetBucket works perfectly.
You can't blame usenetbucket if your nzb search engine is loading expired files.
 
Thanks for the input everyone. I'll give a few of them a try :)
 
Nduimiso said:
Do you know what their current retention period is? Site says 1700+ but was wondering if its been extended, Astraweb keeps extending theirs and is now at 2000+.
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Has been discussed a few times, please see http://www.nextgennews.net/support/article.php?id=5

We don't have a fixed retention period of x amount of days. It's impossible for us to say when what content will be deleted.
 
Electric said:
UsenetBucket works perfectly.
You can't blame usenetbucket if your nzb search engine is loading expired files.
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I use sickbeard with usenet-crawler, what I've noticed is that most series' failed to complete on usenetbucket, switched to tweaknews and the exact same nzb downloads just fine. Also use nzbndx now since usenet-crawler changed there policies regarding seaches older than 300 days [I see they upped it to 900 days now]
 
So my Astraweb block of 180gigs just ran out. Its lasted me for a little less than a year. I'm now looking for a new service.
UsenetBucket sounds good but they don't sell blocks.

Is Nextgennews good? - I mean the price is cheaper than Astraweb.
Do Nextgennews blocks work like Astraweb blocks, ie.
"All article bodies are counted towards your credits.
20% of your headers are counted towards your credits on our Pay By Download plans.
This means that if you download 10MB of headers, 2MB will be deducted from your credits."?
 
NextGenNews are very good. And very reasonable. And there are a lot of developments happening there that will put a smile on mybroadband users' dials soon...
 
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