300 days retention?

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I recently came across this usenet provider that claims "300 day binary groups retention". It's at http://www.alibis.com/index.html . That's almost close to a year. I always thought Giganews was the best with 200 days retention, but maybe this one is better.

Is this Alibis company/service for real? Has anyone used them? Or what's the catch here? It seems to good to be true or maybe I'm not understanding this correctly and reading it wrong. Just wondering before I possibly sign up with them.
 
The catch is found on this page http://www.alibis.com/download.htm

Assuming you are downloading mostly from groups other than mp3 groups, then you essentially have a daily download limit of 4440mb/day. (using the first 4 servers on the list, for all groups and all non-adult binaries groups). That's barely enough for a single DVDR.

Also, what a pain in the a** to have to change servers for each different type of file to download...

Not worth the hassle/limitations.
 
EyeBaller said:
The catch is found on this page http://www.alibis.com/download.htm

Assuming you are downloading mostly from groups other than mp3 groups, then you essentially have a daily download limit of 4440mb/day. (using the first 4 servers on the list, for all groups and all non-adult binaries groups). That's barely enough for a single DVDR.

Also, what a pain in the a** to have to change servers for each different type of file to download...

Not worth the hassle/limitations.
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ugh... the pain of switching through servers. Honestly 200 day retention is good enough, rarely you find stuff you want is that old.
 
Yea, I currently use Giganews through my ISP (Comcast) and have found them to be the best. I'm allowed only 2GB/month so this is why I am looking for anothe provider that is close to Giganews, but cheaper. I have used some others including Astraweb, Easynews, Newsgroudirect. All have been pretty good for speed and completeness, but have never had the same retention as Giganews.

Usenet.com and Newsfeeds.com claim up to 150days and I was thinking of checking them out as well since they seem to be the closest 2nd place provider for retention comapred to Giganews.

This alibis service does seem kind of odd in the way they have all their servers set up. I have NEVER seen a usenet provider work like that.
 
buscuitboy said:
Yea, I currently use Giganews through my ISP (Comcast) and have found them to be the best. I'm allowed only 2GB/month so this is why I am looking for anothe provider that is close to Giganews, but cheaper. I have used some others including Astraweb, Easynews, Newsgroudirect. All have been pretty good for speed and completeness, but have never had the same retention as Giganews.

Usenet.com and Newsfeeds.com claim up to 150days and I was thinking of checking them out as well since they seem to be the closest 2nd place provider for retention comapred to Giganews.

This alibis service does seem kind of odd in the way they have all their servers set up. I have NEVER seen a usenet provider work like that.
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I heard some good things about powerusenet.com there a reseller of Giganews with a 105 days of binary retention never tried them myself but I like to...:yup:
 
PowerUsenet sucks.
They will throttle your connection after you reach a certain usage at peck hours. They won't officially say it, but I'm think it's around 50GBs a month. I can easily burn that buffer up in a week.

I can say some good things about them. The entire time I used them they never had an hour of down time, and their files are very complete (very limited need for pars). But the throttling kills all the pros. I'm not paying for a 12Mbps line to download at 4Mbps.

I'd recommend NewsDemon, but at $22 dollars a month it's hard to justify not paying two more dollars and getting a Giganews account with almost double the retention.
 
Broken said:
PowerUsenet sucks.
They will throttle your connection after you reach a certain usage at peck hours. They won't officially say it, but I'm think it's around 50GBs a month. I can easily burn that buffer up in a week.

I can say some good things about them. The entire time I used them they never had an hour of down time, and their files are very complete (very limited need for pars). But the throttling kills all the pros. I'm not paying for a 12Mbps line to download at 4Mbps.

I'd recommend NewsDemon, but at $22 dollars a month it's hard to justify not paying two more dollars and getting a Giganews account with almost double the retention.
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Yes Giganews is probably one of the best amazing server speed and completion 200 day retention just the price is bit to much for my needs ... I probably should try NewsHosting next If only Giga would offer a $15 a month unlimited with 100 day retention that would be great ...:yup:
 
cubbyche said:
I heard some good things about powerusenet.com there a reseller of Giganews with a 105 days of binary retention never tried them myself but I like to...:yup:
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I use powerusenet and I get my full 5mbs all the time never lacking. I love them SSL, 105 retention, and only 15USD a month.
 
I've actually been with Easynews for some time now here & have been pretty happy with them. Great speeds and rock solid reliability. However, I was interested in something with more retention and not necessarily "unlimited" space. I don't download that much right now to be interested in an unlimited option.

Easynews has been pretty good and they recently allowed users access to new servers that have about 105 days of retention. Not as good as Giganews, but still not too bad. The big thing I like about Easynews is that the unused gigs rollover so I currently have about 50+GB accumulated in my account. I guess this is probably a tactic to keep users, but as long as they keep being reliable, I'll keep using them and they have me hooked. I suppose this is also probably sort of a "hybrid" option and lies somewhere between "unlimited" account offerings and limited account types.

They have a good search tool as well, but I have found some NZB sites that can provide just as good so that isn't huge. Also, they now allow you to download more per month if you use these new servers. Essentially you can squeeze 60GB/month from the new servers so I am probably gonna accumulate even more down the road.

For $10/month though, its a cheaper option than Giganew's $20 unlimited plans & if I need something from Giganews, I'll just use my Comcast Giganews connection, but I was hoping I could find a cheaper alternative that has high rentetion rates like Giga does. Oh well, the search continues.
 
upping this thread-- how about binaries that expired after 200 days (I'm using giganews)? I was browsing the NZB section here and I see a lot of stuff that I want to download but it's 200+ days old already (I'm downloading WMV HD's). Only way is to request it again?
 
Lantis said:
upping this thread-- how about binaries that expired after 200 days (I'm using giganews)? I was browsing the NZB section here and I see a lot of stuff that I want to download but it's 200+ days old already (I'm downloading WMV HD's). Only way is to request it again?
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Yup. You'll have to request it but you will often find reposts if you search for the release on binsearch. 200 + reposts is a very nice combo :D
 
As far as I know Binindex.net and Binsearch are the only to indexes that currently have 200 days retention or more.
 
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