Giganews or Astraweb?

Mars

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So who do you use?

They both have unlimited plans for $15. You get a whole lot more connections from Giganews tho.

Giganews:

$14.99

* Our Most Popular Plan
* Unlimited Monthly Bandwidth Allowance
* 256-bit SSL Encryption included +30 Bonus Connections
* Total of 50 Simultaneous Connections
* 521 Days Binary Retention

Astraweb:

$15


Plan | Price |Quota | Rate Limit | Connections

Unlimited DSL | $15/Month | Unlimited | Unlimited | 20


Do the simultaneous connections mean from any pc?
I currently max out my line with 5 connections on Easynews..


I'm leaning toward Giganews, what do you recommend?
 
Also using the $11 Astraweb account. Full 420KB/s all the time, very very very few times that there are not enough par files. Retention is over 200 days.

Big thumbs up.
 
Pilgrim said:
Also using the $11 Astraweb account. Full 420KB/s all the time, very very very few times that there are not enough par files. Retention is over 200 days.

Big thumbs up.
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Retention is 512 days and increasing.
 
Astraweb is awesome, i was paying giganews 29.95 before gary mentioned the special.

I also use usenext to generate older nzb's :D only 8 dollars a month and the search on usenext is awesome.
 
killadoob said:
Astraweb is awesome, i was paying giganews 29.95 before gary mentioned the special.

I also use usenext to generate older nzb's :D only 8 dollars a month and the search on usenext is awesome.
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Sold! I just signed up with Astraweb.

Never heard of usenext.. googling it now. Edit = OK.. I use easynews for that.. I pay a bit more, but I have about 350 gigs in the bank with them.

What clients do you use? I'm using newsleecher.. I tried the others but I find them too complex.
 
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I use grabit i find it nice and easy, i do not like the others because when they download files they do not name them.

Grabit put the files in a folder called whatever the nzb is labeled which i prefer the other label it from the source which is annoying but use whatever works for you :D.

Usenext is just basically a program for searching files, yes there are free ones on the net but usenext is far superior. They also give you 10-15gb to use as well. So if i find a nzb that does not work with astraweb i load it there.
 
Grabit is OK, but I recently switched to alt.binz and I find it much more customisable. The ability to control your download speeds is really useful if you want to surf while downloading.
 
orin76 said:
Grabit is OK, but I recently switched to alt.binz and I find it much more customisable. The ability to control your download speeds is really useful if you want to surf while downloading.
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Yes that is a nice feature but if you have netlimiter it is pointless :D.

Grabit should though in future add that to their program because it is very useful.
 
killadoob said:
Yes that is a nice feature but if you have netlimiter it is pointless :D.

Grabit should though in future add that to their program because it is very useful.
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I also use netlimiter.. awesome app.

I'll have a look at grabit before I buy newsleecher... is it free? edit - ok I see it is.

When I signed up for the astraweb special last night, I got an email with the rand value in it.. does that mean I will pay R84.56 per month regardless of the exchange rate?

Contents of your purchase :
Product ID : 12
Vendor Product ID : UNLKLEVERIG
Product Description : Kleverig.nl Special Unlimited Account
Product Name : Kleverig.nl Special Unlimited Account
Quantity : 1
Handling Fee : 0.00
Bill Interval : Bills every 1 Month Until Cancelled

Total : 84.56 ( ZAR )
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Bargain! (even if it is linked to the exchange rate..)
 
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