Client Brief

Usenet is one of the oldest and most established services on the internet. Essentially a bulletin board system with the capability to provide rapid file transfers, it is the root of many of the more recently-developed Internet technologies in use today. What makes MaximumUSENETa bit different is that, unlike many other technologies that date back quite a while, it remains very viable as a solution for todays users. MaximumUSENET is source for Affordable, Reliable, High-Quality MaximumUSENET Newsgroup Access. Our multiple server locations offer MAXIMUM speed and retention that's well over industry standards.

Objectives

In order to access the MaximumUSENETyou need two things: A newsreader client and access to news servers. Certain internet service providers offer access to free news servers. Newsreaders are available for all major operating systems. Often these integrated clients are of low quality, incorrectly implementing MaximumUSENETprotocols, standards and conventions. Further, in most cases binary newsgroups are blocked or not available on free news servers.

Plan types:
- unlimited usenet
- metered usenet

Service details:
- Binary retention:650 days
- Text retention: 1,400 days
- Completion rate:99%
- Number of Newsgroups: 85,000
- Simultaneous Connections:50
- Newsreader: free newsreader
- SSL Encryption:free SSL

What We Did

Pricing

2 options available: the first being so-called base plans and the second being maximum-plus plans. The base plans, while existed, offered 8 high-speed connections and one server. The maximum-plus plans offer 20 high-speed connections, 2 serves and SSL encryption.

Retention and completion

Offers the great retention times so we’ll not mention that again. The completion is more than 99%.

Free Trial: A request a three day free , 1 GB free trial by clicking on the support link at the bottom of their homepage,  has been implemented by Harvest.

Coupons:an exclusive LIFETIME 25% discount with the code tn25urz. That’s MaximumUSENET for the discount and URZ. Another option is a coupon for that is 50% off for the first two months for monthly term accounts.  After two months, the regular price applies.  This coupon is not valid for longer term accounts since they are already discounted.

Checkout Process:  SSL checkout process. Harvest Integrated LinkPoint, PayPal  and WorldPay APIs.

Other options

Offers the auto-recycling option, which, once it is enabled, offers the renewal of the users account once he or she reaches monthly download limit. This will enable the user to continue using the service, but, this also means that the future billing date will be moved. Naturally, this option can be disabled if the user is not interested to use it anymore.

Results

MaximumUsenet has been now known as a great provider offering fast access to both the US and EU.  MaximumUsenet provider has one of the greatest retention times (for the text groups), but the retention for the binary groups is very high as well. Currently, for the text groups, the retention is 1265 days and for the multi-part binaries, it equals 600 days. Besides this, they claim to be affordable, reliable, and high-quality MaximumUsenet access provider. They have multiple server locations, great speed and flexible pricing plans. While talking about number of newsgroups, 107.000 active uncensored newsgroups are available.

MaximumUsenet is slightly ahead of its class offering 600 day binary retention rather the normal 1825 days that many other providers offer. Additionally, they offer access to both the US as well as EU with pricing points that reflect the same denomination on either. Plans range from $10.57- $18.57 with caps on transfers on the lower end price points, and unlimited with the highest priced plan. Offering a blistering 730 day text retention and a free version of Newsrover, usenet fans have something to rejoice about with this service.