- Free allowance
- "Start 3-day trial - €2.50" on the home page.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | "Start 3-day trial - €2.50" on the home page. No free trial is offered; the three-day entry is bought. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; The trial is a paid product against a Power plan priced at €4.67/month (€14.00 per 3 months). |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping unlimited speed; 100 connections on every plan source
- retention-clamped 3700+ days text retention source
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| Binding | none During the three days no vocabulary constraint fails: unlimited data, unlimited speed, 100 connections. At 1 TiB/month the paid Power plan is also unlimited, so the line is the constraint. |
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| Identity | card The 3-day entry is a €2.50 purchase through /3day.html; no zero-price path is published. The exact instrument at checkout was not read. |
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| Egress | "Every plan is unlimited speed and unlimited data"; no traffic price is published. free allowance: none: the 3-day entry costs €2.50 |
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| Per-object cap | No per-object cap is published. The unit of retrieval is a Usenet article, roughly 750 KB by convention. |
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| Retention | "3700+ days of text retention" on the home page; no separate binary retention figure is published there. (3700 days) |
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| Interface | unknown NNTP on news.hitnews.com ports 119 / 563 / 443, 100 connections. The schema has no nntp token, so the array says unknown. |
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| Tooling | any NNTP client; the site supplies server settings only |
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| Composes with | A €2.50 three-day burst at unlimited speed is the cheapest way to test a 400 Mbit line, but it is not part of a free month; it is a payment relationship with a 3-day window. |
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| Reliability | The home page rendered an inline error banner ("Sorry! an error occured. Please contact support") next to the pricing content on the read; the price table itself rendered, so the prices are legible but the site is not clean. |
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| Notes | Repeatability: a paid trial is repeatable only by paying again; no vendor sentence is needed and none was found. Abandonment: if a free trial appears on the home page, this record needs a new tier rather than an edit. |
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| Evidence note | documented The €2.50 / 3-day line and the plan prices are quoted from the vendor page today. Nothing was purchased. |
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