In yet another upgrade to the lightning fast, feature-rich premium Usenet access that ThunderNews provides, all customers will now receive additional access to their favorite subscribed newsgroups.

The increase in retention is signified by the amount of time articles are available on newsgroups. With the inclusion of almost 50 additional days, ThunderNews members now will have access to posts that are 650 days old.

All existing and new members of ThunderNews automatically receive the increase to 650 days of binary retention. Some may need to reload the headers of the subscribed newsgroups in their newsreader in order to see the increase.

Thundernews is proud to be able to offer this added benefit free of charge to to existing and new members

With recent storage upgrades, ThunderNews.com is proud to be able to offer members the benefits of a higher binary retention on all of the 107,000+ supported newsgroups; which is still growing by the day. The added features are automatically employed to all new and existing members. ThunderNews.com has an array of memberships and plans to meet almost any budget.

The 570 days of retention on binaries allows access to an expanded history of articles and follows another ThunderNews.com upgrade which now allows members to access Usenet with up to 50 simultaneous connections. The increase in connections gives users the tools to gain information faster than ever before. Each connection also employs 256 Bit SSL encryption which insures both privacy and security. These upgrades enhance the core features of ThunderNews.com’s 24/7 support, 99.9% completion and a free newsreader with any subscription or plan.

ThunderNews.com has long provided the Usenet community with lightning fast quality Usenet access at affordable pricing.  These newly added features of both newsgroup binary retention and the increase to 50 simultaneous Usenet connections are all designed to add value to our overall customer experience.

These social network channels will solely be used to announce and follow up on general service upgrades and features.  For all other means of support, we encourage all ThunderNews members to utilize our 24/7 customer support section.

For years, ThunderNews.com has provided lightning fast USENET access to both the US and EU regions. ThunderNews.com is a leader in being a reliable USENET access provider with outstanding retention to over 100,000 newsgroups supported. ThunderNews is one of the few USENET providers who have extended service to the social network world.

“The core of our business is our excellent customer service. We believe we can help serve more of our members by providing another way for our members to get updates on our services through social networks. “ said Alexander Stewart, Communications Manager for ThunderNews.com.

You can follow ThunderNews on Facebook and/or follow ThunderNews on Twitter. These social networks will keep you in touch with what’s going on with current and future upgrades and notifications.

Do you have another social network that you think ThunderNews.com should consider? Leave a comment and let us know!

Our text article retention now reaches back over 1250 days.

We continue to invest in technology and infrastructure to bring the best Usenet has to offer to you, our customers. These service upgrades are brought to you without any additional cost for you. As always we appreciate your business.

If you do not have a Premium SSL account and want to upgrade your existing ThunderNews account to the Premium SSL level, please enter an upgrade request at the ThunderNews Help Desk and we will be happy to assist.

On October 1, we will move all of our traffic on the Premium US and Premium US SSL servers to the new server farm. The server names will remain the same.

This change will be transparent for most of our customers. However, there are two important changes that you need to make to assure uninterrupted service:

1) The connection port list is changing. The port list will now be the same for the US and the European servers. You should check your newsreader client software setup to confirm your client is using one of the ports below to connect.

If you use News Rover, you can check your connection setup on the News Rover ‘Configure’ menu, ‘Server’ tab.

us.thundernews.com on NNTP Port: 119, 443 or 8080
eu.thundernews.com on NNTP Port: 119, 443 or 8080

If you subscribe to Premium SSL, use this config info:
secure.us.thundernews.com on SSL Port: 563, 80 or 81

2) As part of the move, we are resynchronizing message ID’s so they are the same across all farms. This will have no impact on you if you do not store message headers. If you subscribe to newsgroups and store message headers, you will need to clear your current headers and get a fresh list beginning October 1. Otherwise, you may receive ‘Message not found’ errors after the move. Click here for more details.

As always, we appreciate your business and look forward to serving your Usenet needs. Please contact us at our Support Desk if we can be of assistance.

SSL encrypted NNTP connections offer another level of security and privacy allowing you to safeguard your computer’s communications with our news server when browsing messages. With SSL connections, your Usenet communications are encrypted from your ISP, other network providers and any others attempting to monitor traffic.

You may open an account with secure SSL NNTP access by choosing our Premium SSL Server option on our SignUp page.

Join ThunderNews.com today and pay with your UK Debit card!

You are not required to have a WorldPay account to set up a payment to ThunderNews. If you choose the WorldPay option during the ThunderNews join process, you will be forwarded to WorldPay to complete the payment details. WorldPay will send you a confirmation e-mail with your ‘FuturePay’ information.

You can JOIN NOW with a 6 month account at the 15 GB/Month, 30 GB/Month, 150 GB/Month 5 GB/Day and Unlimited /Month account levels as well as various 3 and 12 months accounts as well.

If you would like to upgrade your current account to a longer term account just contact our Support Team and they will be happy to assist.