Astraweb retention being increased to 270 days

MultiForce said:
I want more if I can get it.

And I don't really see a problem in paying $20-$30. This is just pocket money anyway.
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Mehh, I think at a certain point retention becomes all the same.....
I personally dont care when it goes over 250 because all the stuff posted then is out of date for me anyway. ( Apps )
Although I can see it for other stuff too ( movies, games, music ).
 
All in all it's all good for us consumers. Some healthy competition is a good thing.
I've been an Astraweb user for a year now and I'm very satisfied with their services.

All i can say is Astraweb FTW :D.
 
Retention is growing at a rate someday when we want to see classic films and play classic games we may download the original usenet post. Its rather astonishing when you consider the growth of usenet in recent years as far as the overall feed size that they are able to continue to scale their servers to hold so much information.
 
In addition to lowering prices, giganews should implement block pricing as well.

Most giganews value seems to be in their unlimited plans,

Subscription may work well in the US where bandwidth is quite cheap but in countries where isp's offer low download quota it is much cheaper to buy a astraweb block and use it over say three months than it is to subscribe a low end giganews plan for three months

Moves like that this would encourage people without an unlimited internet connection to try giganews
 
amazing news, yeah atm. there is no reason to stay with giganews, paying the extra 15 a month is getting kinda costly for me, already canceled giganews so at the next invoice, astraweb here i come! +D
 
humchu said:
In addition to lowering prices, giganews should implement block pricing as well.

Most giganews value seems to be in their unlimited plans,

Subscription may work well in the US where bandwidth is quite cheap but in countries where isp's offer low download quota it is much cheaper to buy a astraweb block and use it over say three months than it is to subscribe a low end giganews plan for three months

Moves like that this would encourage people without an unlimited internet connection to try giganews
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270 days unlimited Astraweb for $11 with a backup block account with 365 days retention on Giganews would be the ultimate set up!

:drool:
 
Giganews already has plans for an expansion of it's retention "well past 240 days".

But Astraweb's price,
that nearly unbeatable. I just hope their member base doesn't grow beyond their network's capabilities like Usenetsever did last year.
 
seh said:
I've been wondering the same thing. Not like I really need the extra 90 days retention right NOW, but still.. :shifty:
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I emailed them and asked and got the following respopnse:

Hi

The retention should reach 270 days in 110 days time (160 + 110 days).

Thank you for using Astraweb!
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Looks like they are increasing it literally 1 day at a time.
 
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