Just received Tweak's follow up offer to the 1 Month €1 Plan they dropped a month ago. New deal is a recurring life time discount on their best 12-month plan, €30 (~AUD $48.11) for their ultimate + vpn plan.
This plan comes with the following:
Unlimited Usenet Downloads
VPN Service + Apps
Unlimited Download Speed
3400 Days of Binary and Text Retention
60 Connections
Free Access to Newsreader (UsenetWire)
Use the following link: https://www.tweaknews.eu/en/landing/aanbieding-promo
I'm taking it on a test run on my mac right now. Seems fairly basic but will do the trick. I need to test the speeds when downloading though.
Been using for about four years, even at full price at around 90 Euro. Always maxes my line at around 10 or 11MB. Retention is better as it follows NTD rather than DMCA takedown requests- so things are available for a bit longer usually. I have a block with a different Omicron reseller which rarely ever gets touched.
I cancelled my sub which I just paid 70 Euro three months ago just to take up this offer. Even though it didn't stack i'll save in the long run.
I use a different VPN so can't really comment on the included one.
I don't believe I've broken the first rule have I?
Thanks for mentioning the different retention info. I picked up the Newshosting deal last month and didn’t click that it abided by DMCA rather than NTD takedowns.
I use the UsenetServer VPN which works well for me on PC and Android but cannot comment on this one.
The ‘what is this’ comments are coming.
You made my day.
thanks OP, firstly what is this? :-P
secondly they dont use DCMA takedowns but the EU version, so chances are they have a bit better retention than the us owned/regulated ones :)
cheers again.
lol… I had to read this numerous times. I have VPN, and multiple blocknet providers, thinking "unlimited usernet for $48", surely this is per month, but no it is indeed per annum.
I think in the real world you won't notice a difference.
Anything new won't have any DCMA.
Anything old will have both DCMA and the EU version.
The EU version can take longer, but its highly unlikely you will run into a situation where you get the file before the EU DCMA takes effect.
You maybe right but grabbed something new yesterday and not available on Usehosting but still on tweaknews today.
So helpful for me in this case. May have just been lucky.
Completely disagree. You know it works real world if you use more than one provider. Plenty of people had DMCA providers for their main download and buy a block from a NTD provider. I have both and in my usage case it's noticeable.
If you automate everything so it downloads as something posts it's less of an issue. If you browse the uploads a few days a week then you would notice. Yes you can easily download something after a DMCA claim is made and before NTD is implemented.
I use Newsgroup Ninja and regularly pull 3500+ day retention files successfully.
Considering I would likely have insanely more content downloading then most people, and I still don't need a block account, I think that means something.
Most of it comes down to using the right indexer.
I have specifically tried tweaknews and I found it a huge waste for a simple scenario
You go to download a TV Show, you (or sonarr) see four different posts of the same file, you pick the first one
The first one is DCMA'd on your main provider, but available on your block account. So you download the 30GB season on your block account.
However because you had a block account, you didn't give Sonarr, or yourself the opporutnity to download the other three identical options, which almost always work instead. So the reality is you wasted 30GB because you had a block account.
In the few times that I wasn't able to get what I wanted, and I got some data from places like tweaknews, it didn't work as it was also unavailable.
So the end result is that I'll lose my block account data due to sonarr or myself not knowing which of four posts contain the data on my main provider, or I can disable the block and maybe there will be an opportunity where its useful (unlikely)
I will also point out that the DCMA situation has changed drastically to what it used to be.
These days DCMA is not common, but when it happens they do a very good job of doing it across all providers, including EU providers.
@samfisher5986: Whoops, I've got it all ballsed up.
I meant newsdemon. I'm on the 2yr/$67 plan now.
But I've had a Tweaknews block account for ages that has not long run out and have been hanging out for a Tweaknews deal so I had a NTD account. After reading your post in thinking I'll save my $ rather than bother with another block.
Can this be stacked?
No, I had to cancel my sub before I could sign up. I now have two active subs on my account.
Do you need to pay extra for a search function? (Indexer?)
Yes
Not if you use the included Newsreader (UsenetWire)
No, the included newsreader has its own indexer.
But you can use your own indexer and downloader
I've never used their newsreader but I'm quite sure a proper indexer is going to be much much better, especially for less common groups and obfuscated files.
I get the error message You are not eligible for this promotion. Please contact support for more information.
Also calling @4agte
same here.. wonder why not?
EDIT: some googling found it is effecting other users as well - send the rep on reddit a DM and they will look into it - https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/chr0m9/tweaknews_of…
Any deals for block accounts?
I would recommend something like Premiumriseme which acts like streamer through Kodi and also as Usenet for downloads.
Just so everyone knows you don't need a VPN for usenet.
Everything is already encrypted. The VPN won't protect you any extra using Usenet at least.
Not exactly true .. your Usenet provider must provide SSL connctions which you need to activate on your client
You dont, but its better to
No its not.
Your VPN Provider still knows what you downloaded.
Your ISP still has no idea.
Encrypting something twice does not increase your privacy.
Most don't keep logs for that reason. Maybe you need to research more
@asa79: You are ignorant
If a government tells a provider to log and that they can't tell anyone, they have to comply.
There no guarantee that they aren't logging already.
And finally, you still haven't given a reason why a VPN would have any benefit to Usenet.
@samfisher5986: You really think most of the Vpn providers are in the Australian or America your stupider then you look
@asa79: Its not relevant where the VPN provider is.. even if its on the Moon
There is no benefit, if you think there is a benefit then it shows you lack the understanding on how it works.
will do some googling, but can anyone please comment on how this compares with usenetserver's retention and DCMA takedowns? I've been with UNS for about 8 years and only ever really had minor DCMA takedown issues with current shows.. with most stuff now having random filenames / post names and only discoverable through indexers, I haven't encountered many shows taken down at all. But UNS is $100 USD a year for unlimited, 60 connections SSL.
well answering my own question - they seem good, only way I'm going to really know is give them a trial and see how they fare with new and also a lot older shows for back fill. $48 AUD for a year doesn't seem like a huge waste if they aren't that crash hot.
Just waiting for their support staff to fix whatever it is about my account which means I'm currently not eligible for the promotion.
I signed up for the 1 euro deal. Max speed I get is about 12 Mbit to 18 Mbit on a 30 Mbit fttn connection with Telstra. Overall was happy and I'll probably sign up.
hmm how long are people finding it takes Tweaknews to send you the login and password so you can access their usenet server?
Instant during signup , shown in the portal not emailed
ok.. so my review so far..
The good:
- CHEAP and has good retention and I've been able to find some really old stuff and backfill, however..
The Bad
- first issue was I could not connect at all using the Alt Binz windows client, I had to download and setup the UsenetWire client espressly for Tweaknews.
The mother fugging UGLY:
- transfer speeds. UGH, horrible. I have an NBN 100 connection and would max out to my previous US based usenet provider at about 8MB/s, Tweaknews is barely managing 3MB/s
I get 11MB/s (on NBN 100) via Tweaknews.
which ISP? I'm with Dodo but as said, USA link would get me 8MB/s.. I've managed to get alt.binz working with Tweaknews and that seems to be a little better at almost 5MB/s.
Same, NBN with Telstra.
i use sabnzbd with tweaknews, constantly max out 100mbps fttp.
Telstra NBN FttP 100Mbps. Tweaknews also max out.
Link doesn't seem to work anymore?
Any comment on the vpn by anyone with it already?