| Rank | Provider | Features | Reviews | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giganews  |
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$20 USD |
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| 2 | UsenetServer |
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$10 USD |
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| 3 | Usenet.net |
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$9.99 USD |
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| 4 | Easynews |
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$9.99 USD |
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| 5 | Newshosting |
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$9.99 USD |
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| 6 | Astraweb |
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$11 USD |
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| 7 | Supernews  |
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$9.99 USD |
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| 8 | NewsDemon |
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$10 USD |
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| 9 | ThunderNews  |
|
$15 USD |
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| 10 | NewsgroupDirect |
|
$12 USD |
Post Date: February 22, 2012
The first announcement this year coming out of the Astraweb camp is a pretty big one…they didn’t expand the retention, they have plenty, but they did up the caps on their speed limited accounts from a 5 Mbps allowance to 10 Mbps. This is a large jump, and it isn’t the only thing that hey [...]
Read the Astraweb Announces Account And Speed Cap Upgrades
Post Date: February 21, 2012
The discussion of this category almost caused a rupture in a few friendships among our office staff…and what we finally agreed on is that: Newsreader preferences are subjective. It seems that different people like different things, so we had to do our level headed best to avoid personal biases…not an easy task. But,concentrating on the [...]
Read the 2011 Top Full Featured Newsreader: Newsbin
Post Date: February 20, 2012
Late last year the newest Usenet provider, theUsenet, went live and offered a wide variety of block, metered, and unlimited accounts for their new service. We are happy to say that after observing and evaluating their service for a few weeks we have published a full review of their service and listed all the little [...]
Read the theUsenet Giving Leap Year Usenet Special Discount
Post Date: February 18, 2012
There was a lot of contention when we discussed this category. Mainly because the main deciding points for this category are subjective, and everyone likes things a little different from what the other guy likes. But that’s okay, here at UsenetReviews we are all about the “To each his own” thing. But, in this category [...]
Read the 2011 Top NZB Search Index Site: NZBMatrix
Post Date: February 16, 2012
The other day we got great news from Easy news. They announced that they are giving their members access to a free VPN service for a short time. You will have to act quickly, the free access will only be for a short time. More good news came in the form of them giving the [...]
Read the Free VPN Service Announced By Easynews
Post Date: February 15, 2012
This category is reserved for not only the smallest, but the one that uses the least resources like the memory and processor time. But, size isn’t all that counts…the newsreader has to work excellently, and have no issues. And for the last year, Binreader has been one of the favorites with us. This may be [...]
Read the 2011 Best Small Usenet Newsreader: Binreader
Post Date: February 13, 2012
We don’t take internet freedom lightly here at UsenetReviews…not at all. And, you may have noticed that we publish as much as we can surrounding censorship, blacklisting, and border related information. But when Twitter said that they were going to start honoring blacklisting and censorship rules, regulation, and laws, on a by country basis, we [...]
Read the Twitter Starting Nation Based Censorship – Is Google Next
Post Date: February 12, 2012
This year we picked Binsearch.info as our top Usenet search index because of their completeness and speed of search. There are several other things that also contributed to this decision, like the filters available, and number of newsgroups indexed. Their index includes more than 3,000 newsgroups and millions of binary files available. You can search [...]
Read the 2011 Top Usenet Search Index Service: Binsearch
Post Date: February 10, 2012
GVU, an anti-piracy group based in Germany is claiming that the take-down of the massive file-sharing community, MegaUload, has created a boom in the registration rates of the companies competitors. They also claim that this upward trend is tending to lean toward the sites that offer incentives for the file-sharers that are then most popular. [...]
Read the Anti-Piracy Group Says Burden Of Proof Should Be On The Accused
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Usenet.net, one of our best and most trusted old school Usenet providers, has announced that they are having a 50% off discount for their new members. For a limited time, you can get their Usenet service for just $9.99 instead of the regular $19.99 monthly cost. And this isn’t a watered down account, it has [...]
Read the Usenet.net Giving Up The Goods For 50% Off
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Deals / Coupons / Special Offers Only available through UsenetReviewz – you can use our discount link above to save money with Usenet.net – get top quality premium and unlimited Usenet access for $9.99/month. Free Trial Offer Details Usenet.net offers a 5 day money back 10 GBs free trial. Subscribers will not be billed unless [...]
Post Date: February 9, 2012
In this category, Astraweb distinguished themselves outstandingly. And rightly so. Many Usenet users are concerned about their security and privacy, and in this area Astraweb has provided service above and beyond the call of duty. One of the major points of using Astraweb is that they have servers both in the U.S. and Europe, but [...]
Read the 2011 Stealth And Anonymity Provider Award: Astraweb
Post Date: February 7, 2012
Ex.ua, the largest file sharing outfit in the Ukraine, was forced tto close down…and this, just a couple of weeks after the MegaUpload shut-down. The Ukranian Interior Ministry claimed that the servers were seized for many of the same reasons that the MegaUpload site was seized…facilitating copyright infringement. 200 servers were seized that contained more [...]
Read the Ex.ua Shut Down For Piracy Issues – Back Online Quickly Though
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It’s a fact! Newsgroup Direct is giving the first 200 new membership registrations their unlimited access account, with all the trimmings, for just $8. (We got Newsgroup Direct to extend this deal.) But this deal isn’t going to be offered for very long, so you better hurry. The discount code will expire on the 28th [...]
Read the 75% Off Unlimited Account From Newsgroup Direct
Post Date: February 6, 2012
Ever wonder what the internet, (or any other network,) looks like? A few of us around the office have had the pleasure of exploring and looking around large network server facilities, but the guys at Golden Frog understand that many of their members and users haven’t, (and probably never will,) had the opportunity…most don’t even [...]
Read the Golden Frog Publishes Pics Of Dump Truck Storage Servers
Post Date: February 4, 2012
The massive bust by the FBI of the massive MegaUpload network covered several continents and involved police forces from more than just a few countries. In the end they not only seized the mountains of data that they claimed was infriniging and offensive, but the seized the mountains of data that was uploaded tothe servers [...]
Read the MegaUpload Legit Customers Stand A Chance At Recovery
Post Date: February 3, 2012
There are only a few clients that are totally dedicated to downloading of NZB files, and of these few, SABNzbd really takes the field by storm. If you have used it before, you already know, if not…this downloader offers a lot of power and is highly flexible. Completely open sourced, so it is free, but [...]
Read the 2011 Top Quality Webbased NZB Downloader: SABNzbd
Post Date: January 30, 2012
If Newzbin2 is one of your favorites, (as it is one of ours,) and you went to their website recently and got something like what you see to the right, don’t panic. They are still available, just not at the same domain name. Because of concerns surrounding U.S. law and the MPA, (and probably the [...]
Read the Newzbin2 Still Being Chased, Now They Are .Es Not .Com
