Airnews Platinum Airnews Platinum is intended for people with fractional DS3s (or faster) leased lines, the fastest available ADSL, SDSL, and VDSL lines, or the fastest cable modems, any of which that is typically able to download consistently at speeds of 3.0Mbps or more from non-local places on the Internet.

SPECIAL BONUS: Airnews Platinum lets you use your connections from multiple locations. Use it from work and home at the same time! Up to 6 simultaneous connections.

	Features Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you decide that Airnews isn't right for you within the first seven days of service, just let us know, and we will give you your money back! (One trial refund per customer, please.) Maximum Speed   4.0Mbps Connections   6* E-mail Mailbox  Yes Price  $99.95 7 Day Money-back Satisfaction Guarantee Pre-pay Options   Monthly Pre-pay 3-Month Pre-pay 6-Month Periodic Charge $99.95 $290.85 $563.70 Monthly Cost $99.95 $96.95 $93.95 Tax is extra, if applicable.

What do these numbers mean?
Maximum Speed
Our servers transfer information to your computer up to the maximum speed of your chosen plan. This maximum speed is divided evenly between your active connections actually doing article transfers. This division is recomputed every few minutes.

In all cases, your actual speed may be limited by the capacity and quality of the Internet between you and our systems.

Airnews speeds are stated in Kbps (thousands of bits) or Mbps (millions of bits) per second. These are the same units of measurement used to describe most Internet connection speeds.

To convert bits-per-second to bytes-per-second you just divide the number of bits-per-second by eight.

Connections
This is the maximum number of simultaneous connections that our servers will allow you to use at one time. Software used to browse newsgroups often will use more than one connection at a time.

E-mail Mailbox
The Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum plans each come with one 20MB e-mail box..

*Airnews Platinum allows up to 90 connections to the servers per hour.