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Speedium is a newly formed Usenet Platform in the Netherlands, focused on providing long term storage in a safe and decentralised way.
You receive all log-in details in a configuration email after you sign-up for a monthly, yearly or block account.
With Speedium you can use up to 30 connections at the same time. If you would like to have more connections you can always ask!
Speedium offers a maximum speed of 35MB/s or around 300Mbit/s. Be aware that some of our older retention is a bit slower. We are working on this.
After you have signed-up at speedium.network/sign-up you receive a detailed email with all your settings. Our system needs a few minutes to process your account and after that you can start downloading.
Yes, posting privileges are enabled by default for all accounts.
Yes, you are allowed to share your account with friends or family. There are no IP restrictions but you are limited to the maximum amount of connections.
Yes, Speedium is a “Tier 1” Usenet provider. Our backend has been built from scratch in Q1 of 2020 and we are expanding our capacity with a combination of HDD, NVMe and Blockchain storage.
We maintain our own storage servers, front-ends, caches and feeders. We also manage our own IP space and network routes. Therefore we can operate independent from others.
Our current retention on our storage platform is about 2PB worth of Usenet feed. We are a completely new backbone so we are unable to have any articles available from before our launch. Therefore we have agreements with other providers to backfill older articles.
Our servers are located in a professional datacenter in the heart of Amsterdam. The wide availability of internet exchanges available in this region makes it easy for us to deliver articles around the globe.
We are trying to listen to our community as much as possible. Therefore we are not only developing and maintaining our backend, but are also actively helping our community. We want to be more open towards our users while maintaining safety precautions in place for not crossing any boundaries.
Blockchain storage is a way of saving data in a decentralized network which utilizes the unused hard disk space of users across the world to store files. The decentralized infrastructure is an alternative to centralized cloud storage and can solve many problems found in a centralized system.
A few members from the Speedium team originated from the Blockchain space, developing and testing software solutions. We wanted to experiment with storage solutions available on the market and we came across a few decent decentralised options.
Now we can store our older retention on Blockchain based platforms, reducing the cost while increasing our local retention.
No, some claim that blockchains are immutable and there should be legal issues with using a Blockchain storage platform. But this is not the truth.
Removals from a Blockchain storage platform will be carried out the same as our local retention. We will follow NTD regulations.
Due to the decentralised set-up of our storage platform we are having issues with increasing our speed on high traffic moments. Therefore we chose to only store older articles on the Blockchain at this point in time. All recent articles are being stored on local high-end SSD or HDD servers.
Usenet is a network where people can exchange news, ideas, and information. For more information please visit Wiki.
Newsgroups are discussion groups on Usenet. Each newsgroup focuses on a specific topic. Newsgroups are categorized into large subsections called hierarchies.
Speedium carries all newsgroups that are receiving posts regularly and that are considered to be legitimate.
The following payment options for recurring:
• Ideal (Sepa)
• Paypal
• Creditcard (Mastercard/Visa)
• Sofort
• Bancontact
The following payment options for non-recurring:
• Cryptocurrency (Coinbase Plugin)
• Paysafecard
If you wish to stay anonymous we recommend using the Cryptocurrency or Paysafecard option for payment.
Yes, all our subscriptions are one-time only. You can select “recurring” at checkout for an extra discount.
You can cancel your recurring subscription by logging into your dashboard, go to the subscription section and remove your current subscription.
There will be a referral code available after you login to your Speedium dashboard. If anyone uses this code while signing up for a yearly subscription, you will both receive one month for free.
Yes, Speedium uses SSL encryption to ensure that all data that passes between our Usenet servers and your connection stays private and secure.
If you found something illegal on our Usenet platform, please report it to the law enforcement agencies. You can send us an email with all the details, but there is nothing we can do about the criminals.
Speedium does not keep any logs about what you are downloading. The only thing we keep track of for block accounts is the volume of the total downloads.
Yes, we are in favor of privacy and anonymity of our users. We respect this privacy by not asking our users more than we need, therefore we only require an email account and password for signing up.
You are connected to our platform, but we do not allow you to post articles on our platform.
Possible reasons:
You will receive this error message when an article is not on our servers. There may be several reasons for this. The most common ones are:
If you receive this error, please contact our support through one of our channels or email. We hope to solve this as quickly as we can.
You will receive this error when:
Please login to your account page to check your current subscription.
You will receive this error when you use more connections than there are available for your account. The maximum amount of connections you can use at the same time are 30.
You will receive this email when your name (email) or password is incorrect. You can check your password after logging in to your dashboard. Please contact us if the issue persists.
This error will often appear as a result to your firewall/virus scanner blocking the software. Make sure your newsreader has sufficient system privileges to make a connection to the Internet.
There is no connection with the internet. Please check your connection or contact your ISP.
Your newsreader has tried to connect to one of our servers but failed. Please try again in a few minutes, if the problem persists contact our support team.
The connection is probably being closed at our end. This often happens when you enter a wrong port. Please use ports:
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