r/usenet - Usenet Discussion

The original post: /r/usenet by /u/EternalSilverback on 2024-08-28 22:54:21.

Hi everyone. Currently I have the following providers:

• NewsHosting (priority 0)
• NewsGroupDirect (priority 0)
• Eweka (priority 1)

I'm probably going to drop Eweka entirely, as I keep it set to a lower priority in SABnzbd. I just checked and that provider hasn't downloaded a single article over the last 6 months. 0% hit rate on 84k articles. So it doesn't seem to be adding anything of value to my setup.

That leaves me with NH and NGD, the former of which has more than doubled my subscription price this year to $44 USD. I think I pay $25 USD for NGD, assuming they don't also price hike this year.

My question is - is there anything I can improve here? Better deals, diversity of providers/backbones, etc? Or should I just drop Eweka and call it good?