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75% off XS Usenet (€22.50 for a year, ~$34.61 AUD)

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75% off XS Usenet (€22.50 for a year, ~$34.61 AUD)
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Agret on 01/01/2018 - 13:18 my.xsusenet.com (3072 clicks)
Last edited 01/01/2018 - 16:56 by 1 other user
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Used to use the free accounts a few years ago and they were pretty good. Got 3 emails from them to the 'lucky wheel' where you spin for a discount. One of my accounts spun the 75% off which is the max discount and the page says "Congratulations. You won 75% discount! You can use it on any product, as many times as you want until 10-01-2018 and you are allowed to share it!". I think $34.61 for a year of UseNet with unlimited data/speed is pretty damn good. If you already have a provider might be worth getting this as a backup source as in the past they were a bit slow at honoring takedown requests.

You may to refresh/go back a couple of times for the discount to be applied.

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  • Bargaphile on 01/01/2018 - 13:36

    Good deal! The retention is a bit average though

    • samfisher5986 on 01/01/2018 - 13:43
      +2

      The places that offer higher retention generally will have partially or completely missing articles for anything past 1500 or so anyway.

      • Diji1 on 01/01/2018 - 14:42
        +1

        Not in my experience.

        • lostn on 01/01/2018 - 19:08
          +1

          In my experience, the ones with 2000+ days have worse retention at <1000 days than the dutch servers which only do 1000 days.

          You need a block account as a fill server for those.

        • samfisher5986 on 01/01/2018 - 20:51

          You can reliably pull down 1800 day articles?

          Which provider?

  • dosada on 01/01/2018 - 14:20

    Haven't used that in a decade. What clients are recommended?

    • skyva on 01/01/2018 - 14:54
      +7

      Sabnzbd

    • snuke on 02/01/2018 - 10:04
      +5

      Try both, SABNZBD and NZBGet, they each have their pros and cons.
      I suspect if you haven't used anything for ages, SAB will seem better as it's a million times easier to setup fully. Unfortunately Get requires you to add scripts to get many features working.

      Get is written in C++ so lighter weight on any system, super helpful for low powered devices. It also can get you much faster results if you're one of the lucky ones to have insanely fast internet.

      I found SAB would use about 23-25% of my NAS's CPU, while Get would use about 18-20%. RAM usage was the same. I'm on ADSL2+ so no trouble in getting full speeds on SAB.

      I am long time SAB user and used Get for about 2 weeks before I went back to SAB. I got frustrated in the need for scripts to do what is built in SAB already. The lack of a decent iOS app was also a pain. If you're on Android the NZB360 is great, if on iOS and Jailbroken then NZBUnity is great.
      I now just use the native SAB interface on my phone as since 2.0 their mobile interface is easy to use.

  • Diji1 on 01/01/2018 - 14:41

    1100 days though … wasn't it approaching 3000 days at other providers a while ago?

    • Agret on 01/01/2018 - 16:59

      AstraWeb have 3000 days and have had this special $96USD/year unlimited plan going for years (added to Internet Archive wayback machine in 2009)

      http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/96-yearly.html

      I also use this provider as a backup since they have sales on blocks they can be useful for the occasional missing articles

      https://newsgroupdirect.com

      Here's my stats - https://vgy.me/xuGlWL.png (Internode ISP gives you free astraweb unlimited)

      • 4wd on 02/01/2018 - 08:27
        +1

        Astraweb is currently cheaper if you go for the US$15 for 2 months, saving you $6 per year.

        When I had a subscription with them, years ago, it worked out even cheaper to go $20 for 3 months for a bandwidth limited DSL account since I was on ADSL.
        Now I just use block accounts, a NGD 1TB has lasted me 5+ years so far. Can't say I've had much of a problem grabbing things over 1800 days old on either Astraweb or NGD.

        • akoli on 02/01/2018 - 08:57

          With automated DMCA takedowns Astraweb are the worst I binned them years ago ( but i suppose it is more to do with the content your looking for) … no matter how cheap you make them. With aussie internet the stuff you want is gone before you have to chance to complete it. I did used to use this mob for their free account one connection but every month having to re-register and to unlock was a pain.

        • anthonyd on 02/01/2018 - 13:27

          NGD are based in America, don't they honour more and quickly DMCA takedowns than, say, servers in the Netherlands like extremeusenet DOT nl ?

          I do not condone piracy.

        • 4wd on 02/01/2018 - 18:09

          @akoli: I used Usenet for all my downloading up until about 5-8 years ago, (used it from way back in the mid-80s), downloading up to about 300GB a month … then I ran out of things to catch up on :D

          Since there's no TV shows worth watching these days bittorrent pretty much covers everything I need with the occasional foray into Usenet to find something elusive, (or really old), for that NGD & AW block accounts have sufficed.

          Think I gave up on Usenet as my main source not long after this: Anti-Piracy Boss Ran a Usenet Site

      • Mezevenf on 02/01/2018 - 09:31

        I've tried setting up Usenet on my Internode account but no luck, is there anything special you need to setup? Upon testing it always times out.

        Just using news.internode.on.net and port 119 with connections set to 8 and nothing else.

        • Agret on 02/01/2018 - 21:30

          Here's my settings - https://vgy.me/cQPOCf.png

          I just pressed "Test Server" and it timed out too. Maybe whatever article it's trying to test with doesn't exist on the internode server? It works fine for downloading though.

  • Diji1 on 01/01/2018 - 15:14

    Just spun the wheel like OP did and got the same code …

  • lostn on 01/01/2018 - 19:07
    +1

    That's a very good deal. I bought 4 years worth of unlimited speed at 60% off. That was a year ago. Should have just bought one, and then got this deal. I didn't think they would ever beat 60% off though.

  • smarter_fool on 01/01/2018 - 20:24

    Can anyone confirm if account sharing is allowed on the plans?

    • samfisher5986 on 01/01/2018 - 20:52

      I doubt you'll find any unlimited plan that would allow it.

      Block accounts? Probably fine.

      • Spamman on 01/01/2018 - 21:02

        Usenet.farm allow sharing with another person on unlimited plan and often have discounts.

      • jztilly on 02/01/2018 - 14:54
        +1

        i'm on a newsgroupdirect $65 Yearly Unlimited plan which i share

      • smarter_fool on 03/01/2018 - 11:27

        Just got a response from xsusenet

        Accountsharing is not allowed, however if you do stay within your connections we will not get notified by this. So basically you can "share both 20 connections and use the other 10 for browsing"

        So all good for sharing as long as connections shared are 20 each and 10 left unused.

  • dealman on 01/01/2018 - 22:48

    What is usenet? Is it like torrent? But private?

    • noz on 02/01/2018 - 07:33
      +13

      nah, it's a place where one can read and exchange text discussions. Although I did once hear that it does have the occasional linux ISO available.

    • anthonyd on 02/01/2018 - 13:09

      To download a torrent it relies on peer networking, which means that other users are downloading from you (you are uploading to them).

      NZB or USENET is a client server design, so you are not required to upload or share with other users.

      This has positive legal ramifications, as you are never sharing, only consuming.

      I do not condone piracy. I condone the EFF though.

  • jlim87 on 01/01/2018 - 23:15

    Just tried to purchase but clicking on the activate now button does nothing. Tried in Chrome and IE. Anyone having the same problem?

    • jlim87 on 02/01/2018 - 01:23
      +1

      Update: Created a new account, same issue, couldn't activate. Refreshed a couple of times and it finally worked. Purchased!

      My usual NZB indexer isn't very reliable. Anyone got any recommendations?

      • F1Maniac on 02/01/2018 - 10:46

        What payment method did you use?

        • jlim87 on 02/01/2018 - 18:36

          Credit card.

      • testeagles on 02/01/2018 - 11:47

        Who is your usual?

        • 4wd on 02/01/2018 - 18:20

          I've used Binsearch or NZBIndex since before Newzbin closed, used to run my own personal Newznab server for awhile, (just indexing the groups I was interested in).

          If you don't want to run a permanent downloader, (I use SABnzbd on a RasPi 2), there's the free version of alt.binz which has been my quick Usenet downloader of choice, plus it requires no installation.

      • echoztrip on 09/01/2018 - 21:52

        Yeah I had no luck :\

  • meowbert on 02/01/2018 - 08:46

    Never really used usenet but have heard good things about the ability to exchange text discussions.

    Do I just need a subscription and a copy of nbzget? How do I find linux distros to download? :)

  • [Deactivated] on 02/01/2018 - 14:22

    Good deal for a backup provider

  • effgee on 02/01/2018 - 19:04

    After several attempts on 1 old and 2 new accounts, all I could get (on https://my.xsusenet.com/register-from-promo, after clicking signup to ) was "The page has expired due to inactivity. Please refresh and try again."
    When I try in internet explorer I get "Sorry buddy, this offer is expired" in place of "But hurry! Only 7 days 21 hours 15 minutes 22 seconds left."

    when I try to register a new account at https://my.xsusenet.com/register I get "Whoops, looks like something went wrong."
    I cleared cookies, no different.

    Lines up pretty well with my previous experiences with xsnews, pretty uinreliable.

    • F1Maniac on 04/01/2018 - 19:25

      it worked for me after I set default payment

  • ScrubCorps on 03/01/2018 - 13:21

    How does this compare to frugalusenet? Does it max out?

  • wombat1955 on 06/01/2018 - 12:20

    Thanks OP. Already used their free service and using your link gave me the 75% off option for 12 months premium. Needed something as Internode seem to have lost their free usenet service and this is a good cheap alternative, even if the Internode service comes back. Would be nice if this was the price it renews at each year.

    • Agret on 06/01/2018 - 12:30

      Huh you're right

      Failed login for server [502 news.astraweb.com: Access Denied due to non payment by Internode,iiNet,Adam,TPG. If you like our service, please subscribe for an individual account at www.astraweb.com/special]

      I used it just yesterday. Maybe because the year rolled over they are due to renew it?

  • mjcrow on 06/01/2018 - 13:30

    I just signed up, had to refresh the page about 10 times before I could select the cheap deal, but worked eventually :)

  • Nousernamehere on 06/01/2018 - 14:33

    The site seems dead. Refreshing the page over and over keeps then seems to work but then fully loads and displays the ‘sorry buddy’ message. Can’t even try and register for an account as it goes to a ‘whoops, looks like something went wrong’.

    Need this now it seems the Internode Usenet service is dead!

    • wombat1955 on 06/01/2018 - 14:45

      If you haven't already got a free account with them, try signing up for that first. If that works, then try the OPs link.

      • Nousernamehere on 06/01/2018 - 14:51

        Actually went to the main page and tried to register and that worked, seems I have an old account with them from way back. Signed in though and keep trying to refresh the link and keeps having the same issue.

        Only trying on my iPad though on safari and chrome. Might have to jump on the computer an see if it works.

        EDIT - figured it out, had to stop the page from fully loading and then it allowed me the see and click the button. All signed up :)

  • Chuppa on 06/01/2018 - 15:02
    +1

    I disabled JavaScript before clicking through and could add the deal to my free account. Enabled JavaScript once on the pay page.

  • Ingram on 07/01/2018 - 17:23

    Tried twice with my credit card but I get booted back to the main page and no sign of a successful transaction. Watching my bank account now to see if I miraculously get billed twice.

    Have opened a ticket.

    • Ingram on 10/01/2018 - 00:47

      Finally got it to work after 3rd attempt. Not sure what was wrong but this time I just signed up with my google account.

  • madllama on 07/01/2018 - 17:46

    Anyone try to pre-pay for an additional year?

    The pay for your next period button, tries to charge 90, I am curious if buying it a second time gives you another year of credit?

    • Agret on 07/01/2018 - 19:02
      +2

      I bought it a 2nd time and it screwed me. It gave me 2 subscriptions that end in 2019 instead of extending the current one :(

      Opened a ticket with their support and they deactivated one of the subscriptions and credited the extra year to the existing subscription (merged them) so now my subscription ends in 2020.

      Just provide them with bother order IDs and they will sort it out in less than 24hrs :)

      Here's a screenshot of the support ticket: https://vgy.me/icjOtR.png

  • mikezillakind on 08/01/2018 - 01:20

    Hard to Say if this Has what everyone Wants …..

    • skyva on 08/01/2018 - 15:23

      I don't think everyone wants the same thing. Some want long retention, others want slow takedown. I have had a couple of failures on relatively new stuff on both xs and astra. I will look into a tweaknews block account as I had a good experience with them previously.
      On SAB you can reset the counters every now and again, and swap you primary servers to work out who has the most of what you want.

      • Agret on 08/01/2018 - 16:46

        On SAB there is a 30 day counter so it resets automatically each month :) I set xsuse as the primary and newsgroupdirect block as backup and seems to be working good. newsgroupdirect often have sales where you can get 1TB blocks for $40USD and 500GB for $20USD so they are a good backup provider.

        • skyva on 08/01/2018 - 16:52

          Are you getting many incompletions? I got a few with astra, not so much now adding xs as primary, just wondering whether I drop astra and go for someone else in block.

        • Agret on 08/01/2018 - 21:31

          @skyva: Unfortunately compared to astra that I got free from Internode the rate is way lower

          Compare these October, November, December 2017 stats (make sure just look at the month bytes)

          https://vgy.me/jRKW3y.png

          https://vgy.me/OskQjO.png

          https://vgy.me/OVXgJg.png

          to these January 2018 stats

          https://vgy.me/3Tj8Fe.png

          (Although they could be high just because I didn't realize internode had been blocked)

  • SAVE FERRIS on 10/01/2018 - 00:06

    Bye bye, Internode/Astraweb!

    And, hello, XS Usenet (in conjunction with my existing blocks from Newsgroupdirect)!

    • Ingram on 10/01/2018 - 00:47

      Looking forward to a new ISP in 6 months when I move! Will stick with Node til then.

    • SAVE FERRIS on 10/01/2018 - 08:36
      +2

      Ended up purchasing two subscriptions in hopes that it will give me 2 yr expiry. Ended up coming through as two separate logins/subscriptions.

      So I sent them a support ticket and they responded within 15mins and combined the two into one. Gave it a quick test and very happy so far!!!

  • robmasoboy on 10/01/2018 - 11:41

    XS Usenet or Astraweb deal > What is better

    • skyva on 10/01/2018 - 17:32

      I did some checking last night and when downloading my more recent linux iso's, XS was doing better than Astra. I was still getting incompletes so signed up for Tweaknews as well. I will conduct a month long test to work out the two survivors. Battle to the death!
      I think it really depends on the content you are after but for me, slow dcma is what I want.

  • Minotaur on 11/01/2018 - 14:37

    Whereabouts in the process do you apply the coupon code? Can't see it anywhere

    • Nousernamehere on 11/01/2018 - 14:44
      +2

      The offer finished yesterday.

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