Tiger Usenet Review
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Tigerusenet- 600 days binary retention |
Pricing Plans
- 15GB/month: $6.99
- 35GB/month: $10.49
- 70GB/month: $15.49
- 15GB/month: $10.49 with SSL
- 35GB/month: $13.99 with SSL
- 70GB/month: $18.99 with SSL
Retention
- 600 Days of Binary Retention
- 1265 Days of Text Retention
Plan Types
- Monthly Plans: Yes
- Block Plans: No
- Metered Plans: Yes
Misc
- Completion: 99%
- Newsgroups: Unknown
- Connections: Up to 20 simultaneous connections
- SSL: Yes
- Payment Options: : Unknown
News Server Addresses
- news.tigerusenet.com
- eastus.tigerusenet.com
- europe.tigerusenet.com
- secureus.tigerusenet.com
Review Of Tigerusenet
TigerUsenet is a premium usenet service provider, having servers that are peered with hundreds of other usenet news servers that exist across the usenet network. This enables them to provide the end-user with the access to every newsgroup available out there. Their primary mission is to provide their customers best possible speed, great retention and completion rates and the best customer service. Let’s also mention that their website has blog that is rather regularly updated.
Servers
Server farms are located both in the North America and in the Europe. Up to 20 simultaneous connections are available for unlimited accounts. There are 4 server addresses available. The user uses particular server address according the pricing option he or she has chosen. The listing of server addresses and available ports follows:
- news.tigerusenet.com (comes with standard 8-connection plan, available on ports 119, 23, 25, 80, 7000, 8000 and 9000)
- eastus.tigerusenet.com and europe.tigerusenet.com (comes with premium 20-connection plan, available on ports 119, 443 and 8080)
- secureus.tigerusenet.com (comes with SSL premium plans, available on ports 563, 80 and 81).
- As you have probably realized from the address or the latter server, 256-bit SSL encryption is available.
Retention and completion
They maintain the binary groups on their servers for up to 600 days and the text groups up to 1265 days. The completion rate is over 99%.
Pricing
Number of packages are available, both metered and limited so let’s check which these are and how much do they cost:
Premium plans:
- 15GB/month: $6.99
- 35GB/month: $10.49
- 70GB/month: $15.49
- unlimited/month: $17.99
Premium plans with SSL:
- 15GB/month: $10.49
- 35GB/month: $13.99
- 70GB/month: $18.99
- unlimited/month: $22.99
The user as option of auto recycling which prevents the interruption of the service once the download limit is used. This option automatically renews the account 1 to 2 hours after the download limit is reached. The accounts will automatically renew each month, regardless of if the auto recycling option is chosen or not. Let’s also mention that they have recently introduced the free trial account where a user gets 1GB of bandwidth that remains active for 3 days.
Downloads
Message headers are not included in the measurement of download bandwidth.
Newsgroups
Their servers carry almost all the active newsgroups available. Further, they occasionally go through the list of available newsgroups in order to remove all the groups that collect nothing but spam or have no activity anymore.
NewsRover
Their customers get free registration of NewsRover news reading software which usually costs $29.95.
Privacy
They don’t log what the user reads or downloads. Account sharing is not allowed
Recommendation
Very decent service, very good retention times, but unfortunately, the pricing is not competitive as there are providers offering unlimited monthly bandwidth for the price they ask for some of their metered packages.
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