I have been using Astraweb for over a year now as my Usenet provider.. Speeds have been great.. I always max out at 2.07MB/s which is the max speed of my Internet.. I have never experienced a downtime with Astraweb and they offer SSL connections! They offer many packages but really the DSL Special is all you need.. No speed limit, no transfer limit, ssl support, US/EU servers, 20 connections and 688day retention which is growing daily! At $11.00USD/month you really cant go wrong.. Beats Netflix for me..

Just my 2 cents..

So Just thought I would post a follow up..

I have been using Gomez Peer Zone trouble free for almost 2 years now.. I signed up in December of 2008 and have been using it on all my computers since.. There has been a few months which i didnt make the payout minimum ($5.00) but those were months when i had most of my stuff in storage or was moving or was not near a computer very long.. But the balance has always rolled over to the following month. As of this moment my total earnings from Gomez Peer is..

Lifetime Earnings: $71.96
Current Account Balance: $4.00
Earnings Close Date: 2010/07/31

Gomez though has been late at making payments sometimes has always come through with payments.. I have tested the client on the following OS’s WinXP (SP0,SP1,SP2,SP3)/Vista (32/64bit)/Win7 (32/64bit)/Server 2003/Server 2008 and seems to run just fine taking little to no resources.. Does not cause any issues on the servers i have it running on, and does not inter-fear with my movies or games on my desktop

Just thought I would pass on some peace of mind about the software..

So having several Computer, servers and VirtualMachines running at my house I was wishing there was a way to earn some money with them even if  its pocket change (hey free lunch would be nice right?)

I found GomezPeer which seams to work out well for what I wanted.. you install a Java based client and just let it run while your on your computer. I have been running for about 6months now and made payout (and paid) each month and with 5 computers I make about 5.00-6.00/USD a month.. Neat thing about this is you don’t really need to use the computer a lot, while running it on a computer you use alot seams to be a added benefit it seams to run fine on idle PC’s or rarely used PC’s. You are not limited to how many computer you install too using your single account (they actually encourage installing to more than one computer).

The only issue I have seen with this is people seam to have varried wait times to get their accounts approved.. Once you sign up you need to install the application and let it run. It took just under 2 1/2 weeks for my account to be approved but i have heard of accounts taking upward of 2months for approval.

GomezPeer Zone

Just a quickie Review, Saw this baby on DealExtreme I picked up a few of these on ebay a few months back they work great even on newer servers. I use these all the time in my Labs at work.

Great Price on DealExtreme right now $2.59 each free shipping!