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UsenetBucket offers access to a platform called usenet. Usenet is mainly used for transferring data and exchanging text messages. By using UsenetBucket, you can share and get text messages and data.

Usenet, short for users network, is one of the oldest platforms served by the Internet. Originally designed at Duke University in 1979 and developed at Duke and North Carolina Universities a year later, its purpose was to exchange text messages between nodes (computers connected to the network). Usenet has grown to a big platform with a wide variety of forums or newsgroups numbering in the tens of thousands.

Today usenet is still used as a big bulletin board, in additional it is also used for data transfer by using Binary Files often in a compressed format like RAR or ZIP. A Binary file is a general term for a container. Binary Files can contain everything from movies, music, graphics to standard text documents.

UsenetBucket provides the most reliable usenet service available. Over the past five years, UsenetBucket has delivered 99.999% up-time. The redundancy built into our usenet systems allows UsenetBucket to maintain availability even during planned and emergency maintenance.

UsenetBucket is a true broadband usenet provider offering un-congested usenet servers and networking equipment as well as Gigabits of available bandwidth. Of course, the speed of your downloads depends on how you connect to the Internet, the quality of the connection and service your ISP provides.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), is a cryptographic protocol that provide communications security over the Internet. SSL encrypts the segments of network connections above the Transport Layer, using symmetric cryptography for privacy and a keyed message authentication code for message reliability.
In other words, the only one who can understand what you are reading or downloading, is you!

Retention stands for the amount of days we archive all the articles that have been posted to usenet. Though this might vary from group to group.

NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from usenet. Each usenet message has a unique identifier called the ‘Message-ID’. When a large file is posted to a usenet newsgroup, it is usually divided into multiple messages (called segments or parts) each having its own Message-ID. An NZB-capable usenet client will read all needed Message-ID’s from the NZB file, download them and decode the messages back into a binary file.

When dealing with a lot of different servers sometimes a new post can be damaged or transferred in an incorrect way. By using the PAR files you can repair these damaged new posts. This way you do not need to download everything once again. A good program to handle PAR files is QuickPar.

A list of good programs for dealing with PAR files:
Windows: QuickPar
Mac OSX: MACParDelux
Linux: PyPar2

When all our payment carriers are working properly, you should be ready to go in 5 minutes. However, sometimes it takes up to 20 minutes. We use an automated system to verify and activate accounts and because of this we have to depend on our payment providers. If you haven’t received a payment confirmation within 5 hours, please use your Control Panel to contact our Customer Support Team.

Your credit card information isn’t stored anywhere. We do not store your credit card information anywhere, not even for reference. We do not need to know your card information, nor does anyone else except you!

Sadly, we do not support recurring payment agreements.

Currently, you can pay in Euros.

Sadly, you have to. As we do not ship a product that will be used in your own country, the law doesn’t allow it. You use our platform which is situated in the EU, so actually you are ‘consuming’ in the EU. Therefore we can not offer you a VAT-excluded service.

Definitely! Especially for you we have a Free Bucket and a ‘Get free’ button at the top of our website!

We can, but each case is different. Please use your Control Panel to contact our Customer Support Team.

Once you complete the signup process, an e-mail will be sent to the address provided during the signup process that will contain your new UsenetBucket account user name and password. Sometimes it can take up to 30 minutes for your start-up e-mail to be delivered.

It is extremely important that the e-mail address you supply us with is a permanent e-mail address, as we may direct some e-mail correspondence to this address in the course of member support.

Please make sure to check your e-mail anti-spam settings so that ‘UsenetBucket.com’ is in your allowed list.

You will receive all the details by e-mail. Once you complete the signup process, an e-mail will be sent to the address provided during the signup process that will contain your new UsenetBucket account user name and password.

A Free Bucket is available after a couple of seconds.
With any paid Bucket we wait for a payment confirmation before sending you the details.

No, you do not need Facebook to signup. Though it could you make life a bit easier.

No, you do not need to cancel your Free Account. Your Free Bucket expires automatically when the time period is over or when you have crossed the data limit.

Never! You decide if and when you want to extend your account.

Yes, you can downgrade your account to a lower Bucket. You can easily add another subscription to your account in your Control Panel. Please bear in mind that your current subscription will stay active.

You are not able to pause your account and freeze the amount of days you have left on your account. Though, UsenetBucket works on a prepaid base. This means that you can extend your account whenever your want. Even when your account has expired for multiple days!

No, your subscription gets cancelled automatically whenever your account gets expired.

This can only be done on request. Please follow the instruction in your Control Panel.

Yes, you are able to change your password whenever you want in your Control Panel.

Yes, you can change your e-mail address whenever your want in your Control Panel.

You are able to delete your account in your Control Panel. This process is irreversible.

After you successfully created an account at UsenetBucket, you will receive access to your own Control Panel. This Control Panel allows you to:

• Change your personal details;
• Change your account settings;
• Change your current subscription;
• Create and read Support Tickets;
• Download the invoices of every payment you made;
• See all current Promotions from which you can benefit;

Last but not least, you have the possibility to join our Customer Advisory Panel This allows you to participate in enriching UsenetBucket and give your input in the many cases we have open.

We will store your information so that we can greet you politely and for personal use only. We will only use your information within the walls of our company.

No, we do not share or sell your information to third parties.

UsenetBucket will not release your personal personal information or usage information to investigators, attorneys, or agencies unless we are directed to do so by a Dutch court of competent jurisdiction in the matter.

The only information we store is the information you provide us with.

Your password will be stored in a very secure way which is not reversible.

For the nerds: A two fish encryption with a random salt at a cost of 10, which results in a 512bit encryption.

So that you have something to eat.

No, seriously, our cookies contain information about the session you create when you visit our website. This cookie contains general information. This is called a first-party cookie.

In addition it’s possible that third-party cookies are stored on your computer to retrieve visitor information. A third party cookie for the following parties can occur on a visit to UsenetBucket.com: Google (for Analytics), Facebook and Twitter.

You have to many connections connecting to our platform simultaneously. Please visit your Control Panel to check how many connections your subscription allows.

This is a Grabit specific error. It means that the article is not found in the current group. Please solve this by clicking right on the Grabit Icon, clicking My Grabit and then select default server. Click on server properties and select ‘change active group’ at the advanced pane.

If you have receive this error, it means the content you are looking for does not exist. If you feel this is incorrect, please go to your Control Panel and open a ticket.

If you have receive this error, it means the content you are looking for does not exist. If you feel this is incorrect, please go to your Control Panel and open a ticket.

You need to enter your UsenetBucket information to authenticate yourself on our servers. Please check the e-mail you’ve received to get the right username and password.

You have entered the wrong username and password combination. Please check your information and try again. You can find the information in the e-mail provided by us.

You have to many connections connecting to our platform simultaneously. Please visit your Control Panel to check how many connections your subscription allows.

This is one of the most common errors and can occur on multiple occasions:

• Your account has expired. This can be found in your Control Panel.
• You are trying to connect with the wrong details.
• You are exceeding the amount of available connections.
• Your account is already in use from a different location.

If you can not solve this problem by checking the above cases, contact us through your Control Panel.

These errors are generated by Windows. Usually these errors are caused by trouble in your network and is not something we can help you with. You could however try to connect to another port. If you have any questions regarding socket errors, please contact our Customer Support Team through your Control Panel.