The basic works The basic - usenet access and retention is in place - good speed and most usenetgroups are available. But the newshosting app ( usenetbrowser) is outdated and support is not very efficient - "Its always you who has done something wrong". even the last 10 times i have contacted them showed that they had a system failure. But anyway has used newshosting for around 15 years

Best of Breed For my money, the most complete repository for Usenet posts available, in many cases stretching back 10 years or more.

Fast, solid and reliable Fast, solid and reliable service. The retention-time is sensationally long, over 14 years! I don't see any reason to switch to a european provider!

Best News Servers and Service Best News Servers and Service full stop.

Fast and reliable since 2007 Very fast and reliable service - I cannot remember it being down since I first signed up in 2007, and for new stuff I download around 80-90MB/sec over 1Gbit cable modem, as close to wire speed as anything ever is. Their Windows client is kind of terrible, it doesn't do any kind of precise searching and you can't really sort, but I run Sonaar with an outside NZB indexer I donate to so I can't remember when last I used their client to search. Also, I think I'm paying extra for the VPN service which worked fine the couple of times I used it but is something I never remember I have. Not sure what they report their retention age to be, I tend to be fine downloading stuff >1500 days old (4 years) but more than that you've got too many missing articles. I have not scientifically analyzed this, I just looked at my recent history downloading earlier full seasons of Strike Back :) Good service, I never feel bad renewing it every two or whatever years. Highly recommend.