Unlimited Usenet Access.
A$2.98/Month

Your plan is A$2.98/month, billed annually at A$35.73/year. You can cancel anytime through your account dashboard, and you're covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee. There are no cancellation fees and no contracts.

Absolutely. Unlike most Usenet providers that only run East Coast US or European servers (adding 250+ ms of latency for Australian users), NewsDemon operates servers on the US West Coast. That's the closest geographic hop from Australia and New Zealand, meaning lower latency, faster connection setup, and faster sustained downloads. Customers on NBN plans (particularly FTTP, HFC, and FTTC connections) regularly max out their connection speeds. The 50 SSL connections per account help saturate even the fastest Australian broadband.

Usenet downloads use NNTP, a protocol where latency directly impacts throughput. Each of your 50 connections negotiates headers and data segments individually. With a US East Coast server, each round-trip from Australia adds ~250 ms. With our US West Coast server, that drops significantly. Multiply that saving across 50 parallel connections downloading thousands of segments, and the speed difference is substantial. This is why Australian Usenet users who switch to NewsDemon from East Coast providers often see immediate speed improvements.

No. Every NewsDemon plan includes truly unlimited speed and unlimited downloads. We never throttle, shape, or cap your connection. Whether you're on Telstra, Optus, TPG, Aussie Broadband, or any other provider, our West Coast US servers will use every bit of bandwidth your NBN connection delivers.

Usenet is a distributed discussion and file-sharing network that predates the modern web. It consists of thousands of newsgroups organized by topic. You connect to Usenet through a provider like NewsDemon using a newsreader application (like SABnzbd or NZBGet), and you can access both text discussions and binary files at full speed through encrypted connections.

Every NewsDemon account includes a full SlickVPN subscription at no extra cost. SlickVPN is a no-log VPN service that encrypts all your internet traffic. Particularly relevant for Australian users given Australia's mandatory data retention laws. It works on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

Retention is how far back articles are stored on our servers. With 5,690+ days (over 15 years), you can access content posted more than a decade ago. Our retention grows every day, and we maintain a 99.9% completion rate across both binary and text newsgroups.

Yes. You can cancel your account at any time directly from your member dashboard. If you cancel within 30 days of signup, you're covered by our money-back guarantee for a full refund. No phone calls, no emails, no hoops.