Easynews Review
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- 400 days binary retention |
Easynews home page: http://www.easynews.com
Easynews started offering Usenet services over 14 years ago and has build a great reputation among the Usenet community. Their pricing plans are simple. You can choose from 20 to 150 GB of downloads a month (plus free monthly bonuses). No contracts – pay as you go.
Speed - Easynews is their own ISP with multiple backbone connections. They helps you avoid bandwidth throttling by offering alternate ports and free SSL encryption. The Easyboost web accelerator will further increase your download speed. In testing it increased ours by 88%. Read our Easyboost review for more details.
Binary retention and completion - Easynews has made huge strides going from 40 days in early 2008 up to 400 days of binary NNTP retenion now. Easynews supports 215 days via their web interface for Plus/Big Gig users and 150 days for Classic users. See pricing plans below for more details. They offer a full feed of newsgroups. This is coupled with a 99%+ completion rate. They offer one news server address – news.easynews.com – that automatically connects to their multiple back end servers. This makes newsreader setup a breeze.
Bandwidth – choose from plans offering from 20 up to 150 gigs a month but you get far more. They offer free monthly bandwidth bonuses, discount all downloads 25% for encoding overhead and headers are free. Even better, any unused bandwidth can be rolled over to the next month.
Privacy – Easynews does not monitor or log downloads. They also remove X-headers from all posts to allow for anonymous posting. SSL encryption is free to all members.
Easynews free trial - Easynews is currently offering all new Classic account customers a 10 GB, 14 day free trial.
Easynews Price Plans::
- Easynews Classic: 20 GB/mo. - $9.98/mo.
- Easynews Plus: 30 GB/mo. - $14.97/mo.
- Easynews Big Gig: 150 GB/mo. - $29.94/mo.
With Easynews you pay as you go and can cancel anytime. They offer several methods of payment including credit card, cash, and mail-in options. There is also a no-risk money back guarantee for all new subscribers.
Bottom line – Easynews has built a long standing reputation based on quality and customer satisfaction. They recently completed upgrades to make the service even stronger. We salute Easynews for the service they offer and the positive impact their customers have on World Community Grid projects.
