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Ngroups.net : NGR Top 10 Usenet Provider

August 1, 2011 by

As most of you know NewsgroupReviews (NGR) is always in transition.  With frequent updates to keep up with changes in the industry and our visitors interests.  The latest site update saw an addition to our “Top 10 Usenet Providers” list – Ngroups.net.  We’ve been a fan of Ngroups for a long time.  Especially since they added free personal online storage to the service last Fall.  We’re excited to have Ngroups in our top 10 providers list and thankful to the Ngroups team for offering NGR visitors a special discount – $9.99 unlimited Usenet + storage.

The $9.99 price is only one of the reasons Ngroups made the latest edition of our “Top 10 Usenet Providers” list.  There are several low priced Usenet services out there but quality and features vary quite a bit.  I think you’ll find that Ngroups offers a wide array of features for the price.

Starting with retention (since that seems to be where people focus first).  Ngroups currently supports 1,060+ days of binary retention and growing daily.  The Usenet features include free SSL, up to 60 connections and news servers in the United States and Europe.  Then you add free unlimited online storage.  Better yet Ngroups partnered with Livedrive to provide the storage, a leader in that industry.  Livedrive alone is worth $7.95 a month.  We enjoy the service quite a bit.  See our Ngroups storage review for more details.

Ngroups offers two unlimited Usenet accounts – Unlimited Eco and Unlimited Extra.  The only difference being number of connections.  With Unlimited Eco having 30 and Unlimited Extra with 60.  To give you some idea we tested the Ngroups service with 15 connections and easily maxed our 25 Mbps Internet connection.  So for most people the Unlimited Eco plan is plenty.  Not to mention the $9.99 price tag for NGR visitors.

Read our Ngroups review to learn more about the service or sign up for the NGR special and enjoy unlimited Usenet access + free Livedrive online storage for $9.99 a month.

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Ngroups Partners with Livedrive to Offer Free Storage

October 19, 2010 by

Ngroups recently added free unlimited online storage and file backup for their subscribers in addition to the NGR special – $9.99 unlimited Usenet.  In testing we found the new storage service to be quite useful.  We were able to download from Usenet, sync to Livedrive and stream the content.  All done remotely via iPhone.

The new Ngroups unlimited storage option is far more feature-rich than we anticipated.  By partnering with Livedrive they are able to offer all the Livedrive Backup account options free as part of their Usenet subscription.  A value of $6.95 a month compared to subscribing to Livedrive directly.  In addition those who wish to upgrade can enjoy the Backup and Briefcase account for a third of the regular price.

We started our testing by downloading the Livedrive application and setting up a folder to automatically sync.  Easy enough.  As with any online storage solution you will be constrained by your ISP’s upload speed.  None the less our files were synced at a reasonable pace.

Next came the real fun.  In looking closer at Livedrive we found an option for streaming audio and video to mobile devices – iPhone, Blackberry, iPad, etc.  So what if we wanted to queue up a Usenet download and then stream it directly to an iPhone without leaving the couch?  That was our goal.

We used SABnzbd with the myNZB iPhone add-on to queue and download the content directly to a folder that was setup to sync in Livedrive.  It took some time since SABnzbd had to fetch the files and then Livedrive had to sync the content.  Once completed we used the Livedrive iPhone app to connect to our account and stream the content.  The test was flawless.  We didn’t have any issues downloading, syncing or steaming.  The combination of Ngroups and the free Livedrive online storage + streaming was a pleasure to test.  We look forward to more newsgroup usage on the go in the near future.

Read our Ngroups review to learn more or sign up for the NewsgroupReviews $9.99 special and enjoy unlimited Usenet + online backup / steaming via Livedrive.

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