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Frugal Usenet Access - US$32 / A$50 Per Year (4 Servers Worldwide Including Australia)

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Frugal Usenet Access - US$32 / A$50 Per Year (4 Servers Worldwide Including Australia)
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Associatedswintec on 28/11/2024 - 07:38 billing.frugalusenet.com (520 clicks)
Last edited 30/11/2024 - 15:35 by 2 other users

Hi All-
Just announced with our BF sale this year is the debut of two new server locations. One on the West Coast of the USA but even better, a new Australian Usenet server which I believe is the first commercial service to do this. Both should give decent speeds to users in AU. A couple of AU ISPs have already altered their routing to this server for better performance so there is definitely interest from users and ISPs alike.

The details:

1 year of Frugal Usenet access for $32USD per year

  • Access to all 4 of our server locations around the world
  • Our independent backbone, bonus backup server (UsenetFarm) access with 1.5 TBs per calendar month; 3,000 +/- days retention. This server is truly independent of the main servers. Do not get caught up with other packages who may bundle and stealthily sell you the same access twice.
  • 100 (200 on AU server) connections on the main servers / another 50 on the bonus server (not that you need them all but there if so)
  • Many payment options including direct peer 2 peer crypto payments that flow directly from your wallet to ours with no middle man processors / governments taking part in your purchase
  • Rebills at the same price each year, providing a predictable low price for years to come with a lower cost than bait and switch introductory deals

Hope to see many of you sign up and as time goes on please email us with your experience for how things go with the AU / West Coast server.

Happy Usenetting!

This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2024
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Comments

  • The 10th Doctor on 28/11/2024 - 07:45
    +1

    If I’m an existing customer, and don’t have a renewal until late January - is there anyway I can sign up to the $32 plan but keep the 2.5 months I’ve paid for this year?

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 28/11/2024 - 08:13
      +2

      sure but please email support for appropriate steps

    • Jimbuscus on 30/11/2024 - 01:30
      +1

      I had just autopaid a month, had both a monthly & yearly.

      I emailed support and they turned off auto renew for the old monthly, and set my newly paid year to start when it will conclude.

      So I got my 12 + 1 after a quick email.

  • raisinberry777 on 28/11/2024 - 07:48
    +2

    USD or AUD?

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 28/11/2024 - 08:13

      Sorry, USD

  • Yekul on 28/11/2024 - 07:51
    +2

    Assume this is in USD?

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 28/11/2024 - 08:15

      Yes, USD

  • Commodore64 on 28/11/2024 - 07:56
    +3

    Assume its USD… does not showing savings/usual price

  • MrScavenge on 28/11/2024 - 07:59

    I already have a subscription until June 2025. If I buy this will it waste those six months or will it add on top?

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 28/11/2024 - 08:14

      Please email support for steps on how to do this for your account.

  • kingmoron on 28/11/2024 - 08:24

    Very fast. I almost max my GBE connection

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 28/11/2024 - 09:14

      from AU server?

      • kingmoron on 30/11/2024 - 00:50
        -1

        whatttt there is AU now? lol

        • Reveen on 30/11/2024 - 10:25

          Username checks out.

  • BatmanAU on 28/11/2024 - 08:43
    -1

    What is the use for this?

    • Bigfellaborham on 28/11/2024 - 09:03
      +7

      Linux isos

      • BatmanAU on 28/11/2024 - 09:06
        +2

        So $32USD a year for an ISO?

        • lbreav on 28/11/2024 - 09:12
          +7

          You can't imagine the number of ISOs Bigfella downloads.

        • buffalo bill on 28/11/2024 - 09:22
          +1

          RIP your drives sonny boy

  • isaw on 28/11/2024 - 09:12

    Current user, great service and I think i'm on 33usd/yr so not going to bother for $1/yr difference.. Can i get some details on the AU server please?

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 28/11/2024 - 09:14
      +3

      existing users can login to the website and view the newsreader set up guide for all 4 server addresses but the two new servers are:

      • aunews.frugalusenet.com
      • newswest.frugalusenet.com (US West Coast)
  • HojuGuy on 28/11/2024 - 11:23

    Epic!!

  • bonechiller on 28/11/2024 - 12:15

    What backbone is this on?

  • megawatt101 on 28/11/2024 - 13:01
    +1

    Just subscibed. Awesome speed increase over previous provider.
    Using:
    aunews.frugalusenet.com
    newswest.frugalusenet.com (US West Coast)

    and the backup eu server as backup 2

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 28/11/2024 - 14:15

      glad to hear it and welcome! thanks for signing up

  • jollster101 on 28/11/2024 - 18:16

    Hmmmm, very tempted, especially as Newsgroup Ninja have just increased their annual plan price from $30USD to $54USD.

    Only thing that holds me back is that it just auto renewed until Nov next year. Not sure they will refund to be honest.

    • jollster101 on 28/11/2024 - 19:44
      -1

      @swintec - Assuming you don't sign up to this deal in the next few days, what will the price revert to?

      I really want to sign up but looking at my current providers terms, the payment I made a couple of weeks ago will see my service continue until 18 Nov 25 if I cancel now.

      I am wondering whether I hold off until next Oct / Nov in the hope you run another deal like this.

      Otherwise I'm paying for a years service twice and that is just not OzB….in fact my account may get suspended.

      • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 29/11/2024 - 02:15

        Normal price is $60 per year right now. Usually always a sale floating around though not for this low of a price though. Sorry ya got locked in elsewhere.

    • settings on 03/12/2024 - 15:19

      Just contact support and request for them to honour the lifetime price @USD30.

      • jollster101 on 03/12/2024 - 21:40
        +1

        I decided to bail and head to Thunder based on the deal that johnnytran mentioned.

        • settings on 04/12/2024 - 09:37

          Oh that's a good deal. Will have to check it out; curious as it's on a different backbone.

  • HojuGuy on 28/11/2024 - 19:17

    How many connections do others usually use?

  • bdl on 28/11/2024 - 23:31

    Brendan from Host Universal can fix your peering :)

  • johnnytran on 29/11/2024 - 00:39

    If anyone has ever been with thunder, check your emails, they're offering a $30/year promo which drops $5 each year until $15/year. I'm on a lifetime $20 with usenetserver otherwise would have jumped on this.

  • pezz on 29/11/2024 - 07:20
    +1

    Check your routing to aunews.frugalusenet.com before buying this, if you want an AU based service.

    From iiNet their route goes over to the US then back to Sydney.

    • Johno20045 on 29/11/2024 - 09:00

      excuse my ignorance but how do you check the routing?

      • pezz on 29/11/2024 - 09:05

        If you're using Linux there's a tool called "mtr" which is great. On Windows you'll probably have to use "tracert".

    • bonechiller on 29/11/2024 - 10:30

      Same for Launtel

      • notJV on 29/11/2024 - 11:15

        I just checked with Launtel (Melbourne) and I dont see any US hops. My traffic goes MEL >> SYD >> AUS FRUGAL SERVER (SYD).

        Link

    • bdl on 29/11/2024 - 13:06
      +1

      Same for Superloop (via Singapore) and Future (Via the US)

      Solved by redirecting it through my Sydney VPS - thanks Host Universal :)

      (still thinking of signing up just to support Frugal setting up in our neck of the woods)

    • bdl on 29/11/2024 - 23:30

      on reddit they're good with refunds if you're not happy I believe - just contact them via PM

      what ISP are you with and what kind of speeds are you getting?

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 30/11/2024 - 03:41

      sure, email support please and include what you are seeing for speeds and what not.

    • Reveen on 30/11/2024 - 10:31

      Are you using the AU server? It should max out a gigabit connection easily.

      The fact this is the first commercial service to offer a local server has been lost by many, it's the most significant development relating to Usenet for Australia.

      Only +20 votes, perhaps Black Friday has drowned out the deal.

      • Corgsta on 30/11/2024 - 14:30

        It’s because not many people are into Linux. 🙂

      • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 30/11/2024 - 15:16
        +3

        I agree! FYI….while things continue to shake out in the days and weeks ahead, a quick and easy thing we can do on our end is offer 200 connections instead of 100 on the AU server, for those that need / want that. This change is live.

        • Reveen on 30/11/2024 - 15:35

          Thank you.

        • bonechiller on 01/12/2024 - 14:28

          Thank you for this. How does one go about getting the 200 connections as I too am getting very low speeds on the AU server.

          Edit: Please ignore. Just read that the change is live.

      • VeryFunnyMonkey on 30/11/2024 - 16:53

        Hey I’m on Leaptel on a gigabit plan and it should be going directly from Perth to Sydney (checked through their lookingglass)

        However I’m only getting 5MB/s, any idea why that might be? Sorry I’m new to Usenet

        Edit: Fixed it! Had to set my connections in SABnzbd to 200. Leaving the comment in case anyone else has the same issue

        • notJV on 02/12/2024 - 10:57

          How many connections have you set now ?

    • PainToad on 01/12/2024 - 12:17
      +1

      Apologises. This is being caused by drive write speeds (either becuase SMB or Docker volume). Not the provider. AU server is doing 1gbs. I've removed my above comment.

      • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 02/12/2024 - 05:00

        No worries. There are a lot of moving parts to downloading at such high speeds and even a slight problem somewhere in the process can derail the rest of things.

  • bdl on 01/12/2024 - 14:02
    +1

    Frugal's sister site blocknews also has Australian servers now too for those that prefer Blocks and/or want to try the Australian server and/or don't need the farm: https://billing.blocknews.net/signup/blockfriday

    @swintec - will the blocknews connections be bumped to 200 for the .au server as well?

      • bdl on 01/12/2024 - 22:53
        +1

        RIP news.internode.on.net

    • Associatedswintec @ Frugal Usenet on 02/12/2024 - 04:58
      +2

      yes, blocknews as well for 200

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