Usenet Service Providers

[Cyberion]

I figure we might was well share info on where we can get usenet from.

FREE

PAY
http://www.smr-usenet.com/tech/shaw.shtml

As I see them.. I'll post what I find.

Lets build a list of nntp servers, both free and paid.

[wecc]

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for when you sign up with a usenet service provider.

I have tried others but I'm prepared to stand behind giganews:
www.giganews.com

costs a little more than the others but they DELIVER

[RadiationBoy]

comcast uses giganews and i know that with the home/personal accounts you get the 2gig/month deal. anyone know if its the same with a business account or if you get more (me hopes)?

[DoG]

I'm using NewsDemonat the moment. The servers have around a 30 day retention with a 99% completion rate. 8 concurrent connections with a 30Gb per month cap for only US $ 11.49 a month, their 150GB a month account costs only US $ 17.99 and their unlimited account costs just US $ 24.99 a month. The 2 main reasons i chose them were A: Their retention and completion stats
B: they take PayPal, as i don't have credit cards this was a must.

I recently tried CoreNews but the completion rate was poor and the retention was only 4 days.

[HotRod]

Right now I use NewsHosting http://www.newshosting.com/ mainly because alternate ports.
Also like Usenetserver http://www.usenetserver.com/
Both unlimited downloads for $14.95/mo and I pull my max speed of 525KB