Branimir Maksimovic <
branimir....@icloud.com> wrote:
> On 2021-10-12, Jim S <
j...@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:43:54 GMT, Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
>>
>>> On 2021-10-11, Jim S <
j...@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I'm posting this via AIOE because E-E and Paganini are not reponding
>>>> Anyone else got this - assuming yours ic not down too.
>>>|You can get for 5$ lifetime usenet access :P
>>
>> 5S?
>
>
https://usenet-news.net/
> 10GB lifetime for 5$ :P
https://usenet-news.net/index1.php?url=get
You're buying a bandwidth block with no expiration. It's not 10GB
lifetime. It's 10GB until you use it up much like your dinner: it's on
your plate until you eat it up, and then have to buy more to fill your
plate again.
To be honest, I've never bothered to measure my bandwidth consumption
with any of my Usenet providers. Never needed to. I only visit
text-only newsgroups, no binaries, so my bandwidth consumption should be
pretty low. However, when subscribing to a new newsgroup, all messages
get downloaded, and some newsgroups are still damn busy (lots of
volume). I'd have to get something to monitor just my NNTP bandwidth
consumption since my NNTP client doesn't do that. I see they have a
user login page. Maybe bandwidth consumption could be monitored there
to know how much of the block quota is left.
They mention "subscription" at their site. I don't want them
automatically charging my Paypal when a block quota gets used up. I
want to buy a block, and then *I* decide later if I want to buy another
block.
If your block account is getting used up quickly, can you buy more
bandwidth to have to added to what you already have (like rollover
minutes for some phone carriers), or do you get another account to
separately use the new block?