Eweka Review: A Reliable European Usenet Provider

Eweka is a Usenet provider founded in 2001 in the Netherlands. They now have servers in Amsterdam, London, and Frankfurt.

Eweka has a fast and reliable service. It provides access to over 3,900 days of Usenet retention, one of the highest in the industry. If you have Eweka, you need no other Omicron backbone because if it’s not available on Eweka, it won’t be on any other Omicron IP.

To complete your Usenet coverage you can add an independent provider, namely:

• UsenetExpress (or from the same owner UsenetDemon or UsenetDirect)
• Vipernews
• usenet.farm

Pay-As-You Go Options

Eweka allows you to pre-pay for access without a subscription. Here’s how the company describes it:

This means that you purchase days of access to your account in advance. Most of our payment methods are processed immediately. This means you can start using your account only minutes after your payment.

Whenever you do a payment while still having days of access on your account, the payment will be added to it. Payments will never overlap. For example: You have 5 days of access left on your account when you make another payment for 30 days. After the payment has been processed you will have 35 days of access on your account.

Payment methods include Paypal, Credit Cards, Bank Transfers, iDeal, Mistercash, SMS and Giropay.

Service Summary

• Link: Eweka
• Headquarters: Netherlands
• Server locations: Netherlands
• Backbone: Highwinds / Omicron Media
• Retention: 3760 days
• Max. Speed: 300 Mbit/s [37.5 MB/s] –I get 12.2 MB/s in the USA)
• Connections: 20
• SSL Connections: Yes
• Download bandwith limit: uncapped
• Price: €7 euros or $7.99 USD per month (for a yearly subscription)
• Payment types: Paypal, Credit Cards, Bank Transfers, iDeal, Mistercash, SMS, Giropay
• Trial: 7 days
• Account sharing: Yes
• Block accounts: no