Anyone here use Astraweb Usenet?

Solus · 7 May 2009 at 23:19

Anyone know if when you get charged by these on your card if you get the "overseas transaction fee" on top?

magick · 8 May 2009 at 00:29

Solus said:
Anyone know if when you get charged by these on your card if you get the "overseas transaction fee" on top?

No you don't get charged a transaction fee.

.one. · 8 May 2009 at 02:23

mm may have to have a change and have a look at astraweb but i do not download the linux distroes like i used to

Jabbs · 8 May 2009 at 07:34

Bry said:
Jabbs iirc thats the old ssl server address. You shoudl be using ssl-eu.astraweb.com

Yeah changed over now and no issues same speeds as normal for me 2.33mb/s.

HEADRAT · 8 May 2009 at 07:40

Swapped from Giganews to Astranet a few months back, the only difference is Astranet is cheaper

JBod · 10 May 2009 at 16:56

Just cancelling giganews now...

iraiguana · 10 May 2009 at 17:36

If you do not download so much go for the pay as you go options. 120Gb for $25 Works well for me

Chris1712 · 10 May 2009 at 20:01

iraiguana said:
If you do not download so much go for the pay as you go options. 120Gb for $25 Works well for me

Hmm 120gb for $25, or unlimited for $11? Whut.

zAndy1 · 10 May 2009 at 20:17

Chris1712 said:
Hmm 120gb for $25, or unlimited for $11? Whut.

Depends on how much you're allowed to download a month (or how much you actually want to download). Personally I can get by with 40GB per month so the 120GB allowance lasts me 3 months which at $25 works out cheaper than paying $11 per month for 3 months. The 120GB option is basically for people that don't download much, say for example you only wanted to download 20GB per month, that $25 would last you 6 months which would have cost you $66 on the unlimited option. I find the 120GB for $25 options works best for me

Chris1712 · 10 May 2009 at 20:19

zAndy1 said:
Depends on how much you're allowed to download a month (or how much you actually want to download). Personally I can get by with 40GB per month so the 120GB allowance lasts me 3 months which at $25 works out cheaper than paying $11 per month for 3 months. The 120GB option is basically for people that don't download much, say for example you only wanted to download 20GB per month, that $25 would last you 6 months which would have cost you $66 on the unlimited option. I find the 120GB for $25 options works best for me

Ah ok, I foolishly presumed it was 120gb per month allowance. I suppose that would make sense, but I tend to use about 500gb per month so its not for me

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edGfaCTor · 11 May 2009 at 04:02

zAndy1 said:
Depends on how much you're allowed to download a month (or how much you actually want to download). Personally I can get by with 40GB per month so the 120GB allowance lasts me 3 months which at $25 works out cheaper than paying $11 per month for 3 months. The 120GB option is basically for people that don't download much, say for example you only wanted to download 20GB per month, that $25 would last you 6 months which would have cost you $66 on the unlimited option. I find the 120GB for $25 options works best for me

Very good point and with astraweb you can pay via paypal which is very simple if people don't want to give out there card details.

mcwildcard · 11 May 2009 at 10:37

Super service and the PAYG option is great for people like me who only use the service sporadically.

Oxide™ · 11 May 2009 at 11:24

Ye I've been using the PAYG service and really happy with it. I last topped up on 24/12/08 (The day I left Giganews) and today still have 45gig still to use, so very reasonable.

I find that since moving from unlimited to PAYG, I'm not raping the downloads every month to get my moneys worth and now just download what I'm interested in. For some people this is a very good, cheap alternative

Go Go Astraweb!

JAzz · 12 May 2009 at 01:16

Switched over a little while back as well from Giganews, great service so far and their retention is getting better as well. It is just as fast and the retention is similar and both are going for 365 days. Giganews doesn't really offer much to justify it's higher price tag, they have three months at half price and still Astraweb is cheaper.

CaptainCrash · 12 May 2009 at 10:02

edGfaCTor said:
Very good point and with astraweb you can pay via paypal which is very simple if people don't want to give out there card details.

One gotcha with using PayPal for a Usenet subscription, which may or may not affect you, is that you could find a large number of binary newsgroups are unavailable - mainly those carrying, well, pr0n basically.

Or so I've heard.