THECUBENET

Not published anywhere on the site. Our EU bench put it at 807 to 830 Mb/s on 40 SSL connections: comfortably quick, and consistent with the UsenetExpress spool underneath. Connection ceiling is documented as 50 in older material and 100 in newer, which is a small example of the larger documentation problem. The product is fine; the paperwork describing it is not.

The most contradictory figures of any provider here, and it is not close. The knowledgebase says 4,438+ days. Elsewhere the same company and its resellers have published 2,400+, 3,000+, 5,584+ and 5,762+. Retention is a simple, checkable property of a spool (how far back it still holds articles), so a five-way spread is not a measurement difficulty. It is a housekeeping failure. We publish it as up to roughly 5,500 advertised, sources conflicting, and would not build a purchase around any single figure. The underlying UsenetExpress hybrid archive is deep; what TheCubeNet can reliably reach of it is not documented.

A UsenetExpress reseller, high confidence. The spool is good and it is not TheCubeNet’s, which caps this axis and, more usefully, tells you what not to pair it with. ThunderNews, UsenetPrime and NewsgroupDirect’s primary are the same network; buying two of them is buying one. Where TheCubeNet earns its place is as the cheapest possible door into that network, not as infrastructure.

Claimed at 99%+, and the UsenetExpress archive underneath supports a high figure for current material. Completion is the share of requested articles that arrive, and it is the axis where a $0.99 block is genuinely useful: rather than trusting the claim, spend a dollar and test it against the material you actually download. Very few providers make that experiment this cheap, and it is the single best thing about the product.

US and EU endpoints plus secure. variants, on SSL 563, 443, 80 and 81. Connections are documented as 50 in one place and 100 in another. These are access points into UsenetExpress farms, not hardware TheCubeNet owns. The site does not dwell on that distinction, though to be fair it does not claim otherwise either.

US and EU. No APAC, no documented IPv6. The port spread, including 80 and 81 over SSL, is genuinely helpful on corporate or campus networks that block 563 outright, which is a small practical advantage worth knowing about.

SSL is present and works. Beyond that there is very little: ownership is not publicly verified, jurisdiction is not stated, and privacy documentation is minimal. This is the lowest security score in the top eight and it is earned by absence rather than by any known failing. For a block account bought to fill gaps behind a primary you trust, that matters less than it sounds. For your only Usenet account, it should matter a lot.

Not bundled. OctaneVPN is available as a partner add-on, which means it is a separate purchase and a separate application, not protection that arrives with the plan. Your NNTP traffic is encrypted by SSL regardless; a VPN conceals that the connection exists. Buy one only if that is the specific thing you want.

Cards, PayPal and multiple cryptocurrencies: a better payment sheet than several providers ranked above it. Advertised August 2026: unlimited around $2.50/mo monthly or roughly $24/yr ($2/mo) on promo, against a standard rate near $9.99/mo. So the renewal is where the real price lives, and it is roughly four times the promo. Blocks are non-expiring from $0.99 for 25 GB up to 4 TB. The refund window is seven days, the shortest here. Some pricing was extrapolated from sale aggregators; verify at checkout.