Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention

[JPA]

We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20
gigabits of test traffic this week.  These servers have 200 days of
articles, both binaries and text.

Please give us a hand by testing things out -

The server is:

stresstest.cheapernews.com

No username/password is required.

SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections
per host.

Sorry, we don't support posting.

We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as
we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan
is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.

Thanks for helping us out!

- Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team -
--- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.free ... c99c24cdef#

[rollingeyeball]

Sounds like an excellent find for those of who don't already have a premium service. 200days is unheard of for free newsservers isnt it?

[Camelot]

$4/month for "200 days retention, unlimted download, 20 connections" sounds too good to be true. Anyone tried them before?
I am currently on astraweb's $11/month deal, and paying 1/3 of that for the same service wouldn't bother me

[huleboeren]

$4/month for "200 days retention, unlimted download, 20 connections" sounds too good to be true. Anyone tried them before?
I am currently on astraweb's $11/month deal, and paying 1/3 of that for the same service wouldn't bother me

Uhh Astraweb is headed for 365days so :p
http://www.news.astraweb.com/tools/stats.html
Currently at 315 days

[JPA]

$4/month for "200 days retention, unlimted download, 20 connections" sounds too good to be true. Anyone tried them before?
I am currently on astraweb's $11/month deal, and paying 1/3 of that for the same service wouldn't bother me

Look closely, their plans have speed limits. Hence why the price is so low.

[Camelot]

fair enough, but even the uncapped $6/month plan is ~ halfprice of astraweb. I don't know about you guys, but it's not often I need to download stuff that is older then 200 days...

[unoriginal]

They also have a speed cap of 1meg/sec for all their plans. Since I have a 6meg dsl connection I wouldn't see any kind of speeds that I consider decent. I will stick with Astraweb and their $11/mo deal for the ability to max out my connection instead.

[Camelot]

thanks for the info

[DeXeS]

They also have a speed cap of 1meg/sec for all their plans. Since I have a 6meg dsl connection I wouldn't see any kind of speeds that I consider decent.

1megs/sec per connection and you get 4 connections so speedlimit from "Medium-Use UNLIMITED Plan" is 4megs per sec. the unlimited user I can't find the speedlimit