UsenetExpress is a powerful new tier-1 Usenet provider which offers strong security, a 10GB uplink per server and up to 150 streams for an excellent price.
The service is relatively young, and that brings some issues of its own. There’s only a US-based server farm currently, for instance. A European location is coming, but that won’t help your performance right now.
Retention doesn’t match the best of the rest, at ‘up to 1100+ days’ quoted for binary, 3000+ for text over 110,000 newsgroups. It takes time to build retention, too, so UsenetExpress currently has agreements with a couple of other providers to deliver older articles. That may also have a small effect on performance.
These issues may seem relatively small, though, especially when you see the price. $10 (£8) a month gets you unlimited bandwidth, a maximum of 50 connections and a bundled VPN. The price drops to $8.66 (£6.95) over six months, $7.50 (£6) a month paid annually – that’s around half what you’ll pay for the similar Giganews Diamond plan.
If you’re looking for more flexibility, a 500GB block is priced at $20 (£16). The VPN isn’t included, but you …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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