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National Usenet Newsgroup Providers

Some Internet service providers offer access to Usenet Newsgroups as a standard part of their service. However, if your ISP does not provide Usenet access or you are unsatisfied with their service, you can subscribe to a commercial Usenet news server. They offer good value because they are fast, carry a huge number of newsgroups and are inexpensive. You still connect to the Internet through your usual ISP, but by subscribing to one of these national Usenet providers you can access a complete and well managed set of Usenet newsgroups.

In addition to national news servers that you can subscribe to, there are also some free, public Usenet news servers. However, beware: free servers come and go, and you generally get what you pay for.

There are a number of good companies that offer reliable Usenet news servers that you can subscribe to. Here are several that we recommend:

Giganews is one of the largest and fastest news servers on the net and is highly recommended for use with News Rover. Giganews offers days of binary retention. Prices start as low as $2.99 per month. Files on Giganews news servers can be searched using News Rover's Newsgroup Search feature. Giganews also offers a secure VPN interface. Pre-configured versions of News Rover are available for Giganews USA customers and European customers.

NewsDemon Newsgroups offers uncensored Usenet access to over 107,000 groups. With constantly increasing retention, 99.9% completion and optional SSL encrypted connections. Block plans start at $5.00 per month and monthly plans start at $8.99. NewsDemon also offers a free 7 day trial with up to 15GB of usage. • Unlimited Speeds, no throttling • 256-Bit SSL Encryption • 475+ days Binary Retention • 24/7/365 LIVE Customer Support • US and European Farms • Paypal Accepted • Free Registered version of News Rover.

Supernews is one of the largest provider of Usenet outsourcing services to Individuals and ISP's.
One simple plan. For just $11.99 per month:

Unlimited Usenet Access
Unlimited Speed
256-Bit SSL Encryption
350 Days of Binary Retention
30 Connections
24-Hour Customer Support

ThunderNews offers reliable and fast servers with retention and completion that is top notch. With redundant servers in the US and Europe that accept both NNTP and SSL encrypted connections, you will get fast, secure and reliable connections. Sporting over 400 days of binary retention (and growing) and 3 1/2 years of text retention combined with News Rover's search capability, you can find the messages of interest to you. Pricing starts at $6.99 / £4.50 / €5.25 with plans ranging from 10 GB / month to Unlimited bandwidth. Discounts are available for 3, 6 and 12 month accounts. Registered News Rover free to ThunderNews customers.

PowerUsenet.com is a high quality Usenet Service Provider with a number of low-cost access plans offering unlimited download speeds for each. Power Usenet provides 400+ days of binary article retention and over 1000 days of retention for text newsgroups. PowerUsenet carries more than 100,000 newsgroups. There is a limited time 50% off the first month offer, so try Power Usenet today and experience premium service at a bargain price!

UseNetServer.com is one of the top Usenet services available, and the price is only $14.95/month.

NewsHosting is considered one of the largest news servers on the net; boasting over 9TB of storage. Such massive storage puts NewsHosting at the top for people wanting long retention of the binary groups. NewsHosting does not count headers in your monthly download quota, which is great when using News Rovers Autoscan functions. No logs are kept of downloads and posts are anonymous. NewsHosting has multiple GigE connections making it very attractive to broadband users. Prices start as low as $5 per month!

Usenet-Access features access to over 80,000 uncensored newsgroups through 3 Usenet servers for $6/month. Usenet-Access has a download limit of 500MB/day per server.

www.Newscene.com has two different account types depending on what you need. They start their prices at $3.75 per month paid annually for the basic service ($45 per year) or $7.50 per month paid annually ($90 per year) for the complete service. On a month-by-month basis, the complete service costs $12.00.