NEWSGROUPDIRECT

Users report gigabit saturation on the primary, and the shape of our bench agrees: 729 to 755 Mb/s held flat on 30 SSL connections, with the ceiling set by the connection count we ran rather than by the network. A hundred are available. The caveat is that this axis measures the primary. The Supernews and ViperNews routes are noticeably less consistent, and users report occasional timeouts on them. Buy the bundle for completion, not for a faster number.

Its own site says 5,392+ days; other pages and outside aggregators say 5,700 to 5,836+. Meanwhile the Usenet.Farm tier in the same bundle reaches about 3,000, and each secondary backbone ages out on its own schedule. So retention here is not one number and cannot be. It is four numbers, and the useful one is the deepest spool that still has your article. We publish 5,400+ as advertised and note that the bundle’s real strength is breadth across networks rather than depth on any one of them.

The genuine differentiator, and the reason this axis carries the review. Four separate networks (UsenetExpress, Supernews on Giganews, ViperNews on Uzo Reto, and Usenet.Farm on Its Hosted) means four independent ingestion chains and four independent sets of misses. That is what redundancy actually looks like. Compare it with the more common pattern of buying two brands that quietly resolve to the same rack, which buys you nothing but a second renewal date.

Claimed at 99%+, and the multi-path design is a sound reason to believe the aggregate is high even if any single feed is ordinary. In our checks the primary handled current material cleanly and the secondaries picked up a share of what it missed, which is the whole design working. The marketing also claims 100% uptime, a phrase that means nothing and should be read as enthusiasm rather than as a service level.

US and EU endpoints on the primary (news. and europe., with us/nl/de variants reported) plus separate hosts for each bundled backbone. One hundred connections, which is second only to UsenetExpress here, and an unusually wide port list. Non-expiring blocks run 50 GB to 2 TB. Keep the distinction in mind: NewsgroupDirect owns none of these farms. It is an aggregator, and it is straightforward about being one.

US and EU, with the bundled backbones adding Dutch and German routes. No APAC, no documented IPv6. SSL on 563, 80, 81 and 9119; the plaintext list runs to seven ports, which is useful on a network that blocks the obvious ones and irrelevant otherwise.

SSL throughout with standard no-log claims that are asserted rather than documented in any depth. US jurisdiction, with Greenville SC and Waycross GA both cited as company addresses. So this is a real, identifiable American company, which is more than several providers here manage, with the DMCA processes that follow from that. Transport encryption protects the wire, not your identity. Middle of the board: nothing alarming, nothing impressive.

Ghost Path, no-logs, five devices, included on unlimited and premium plans but not with blocks. As always: bundled is not automatic, and it is a separate application you have to install and switch on. It hides that you are using Usenet from your ISP; your articles were already encrypted in transit without it. A reasonable extra on a plan you wanted anyway.

Cards, PayPal and WorldPay. No crypto currently verified, which is the weakest part of an otherwise well-specified product. Advertised August 2026: $9/mo unlimited or $75/yr; Triple Play at $13/mo or a $35/yr promo; Grand Slam, the full four-backbone bundle, at a $45/yr promo, with the Usenet.Farm portion soft-capped at 1.5 TB/mo. Blocks are non-expiring at $6 for 50 GB up to $75 for 2 TB. A 30-day, 15 GB money-back guarantee applies. Bundle composition changes seasonally, so check what is actually in the Grand Slam on the day you buy.