Astraweb Review - A review of Astraweb's Usenet Service

Astraweb Usenet service was created in the year 2007 and has historically offered a combination of high-retention and low-pricing

. By using this strategy they have established somewhat of a cult following among Usenet Services.

The corporate offices are based in Singapore which you will notice if you sign up via paypal. Their servers however are based in the USA and in Europe. Their services are highly rated by most users which put them in the upper tier of Usenet providers.

Astraweb runs their own services which mean they are Tier 1 provider. This is good for you as a Usenet subscriber because you don't have to pay additional money or markup for branding and marketing.

Instead with Astraweb, you are able to negotiate the lowest pricing. They service is high quality in the sense that their completion rates for Usenet post is typically at about 99+%. This is a good number for a Usenet provider.

Other less robust Usenet providers have about 98% completion rate which means that often times files will be broken or incomplete which needless to say can be a pain if you are downloading and paying per Gigabyte or have a slow connection speed.

Like many other services, Astraweb offers long retention for posts. They provide at least 720 days of binary retention which current puts them in second place among all Usenet providers. Astraweb Usenet plans currently offer approximately 20 concurrent connections or 50 concurrent connections depending on whether you go for them unlimited or block plans.

Astraweb claims to offer fast Usenet and in our speed and completion tests, Astraweb's Usenet service has been both reliable and fast. We seem an average throughput of about 25 MB/s here in New Jersey where we have been testing.

The NNTP protocol while not error free is nonetheless fast and capable of transferring large binary files, audio, video, and images.

As mentioned, Astraweb servers are located in Europe as well as the USA and you can choose from a variety of plans: Block plans, Unlimited Plans and rate limited plans.

We would probably recommend choosing their unlimited plans because at $8/month for the Yearly signup or $11/month, it is relatively cheap.

If you rarely use or browse Usenet then you might be interested in buying a block plan.

Either way, we are pretty sure that you are going to be happy and here is a helpful hint that is not advertised on their website but that we are telling you.

Astraweb does offer a 24 hour free trial. That is you can request a refund within 24 hour if you are not satisfied.

Astraweb Review - A review of Astraweb's Usenet Service

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