Usenet.Farm Review: A Tier 1 European Usenet Provider

Usenet.Farm is a Tier 1 Usenet service provider that was started in 2015 in the Netherlands. Usenet.Farm currently has connection points in the Netherlands only.

This provider only offers anonymous accounts. For registration, only a non-disposable email address is required, and you can pay in Bitcoin if you wish.

Customers report that customer service is non-responsive.

Usenet.farm is a hybrid provider, meaning they combined their independent newsfeed with a backup feed from their partners. Specifically, they offer primary retention of up to 3000+ days for binary and text articles and secondary retention of up to 900+ days for binary and text articles from their partner backup feeds.

Usenet.Farm offers account sharing, which means you can use your login credentials on multiple computers. They also offer a trial where you can download 10 GB, and there is no automatic payment if you forget to cancel the trial. For more information see the FAQ page.

Usenet.Farm currently has servers in Europe only. Download volume is limited to 3TB — once this limit is reached your speed is reduced to 8 Mbit/s.

Service Summary

• Link: Usenet.Farm
• Headquarters: Netherlands
• Server locations: Netherlands
• Backbone: It’s Hosted (NL)
• Retention: 1000 days (although users say it’s more like 2000 days)
• Connections: 40
• SSL Connections: Yes
• Download limit: 3TB Fair-Use policy (once you’ve downloaded 3TB, speed is reduced to 8 Mbit/s)
• Max. Speed: unknown (I get 48 MB/s in the USA)
• Price: €7.95 or $9.45 USD (per month for a yearly subscription)
• Payment types: Credit cards, Bitcoin, Paypal, iDeal, PaySafeCard, Wire Transfers
• Trial: up to 10 GB in downloads
• Block Accounts: Yes
• Account Sharing: Yes