gHacks technology news » best usenet provider http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Giganews to increase binary retention to 200 days http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/16/giganews-to-increase-binary-retention-to-200-days/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/16/giganews-to-increase-binary-retention-to-200-days/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:09:16 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/16/giganews-to-increase-binary-retention-to-200-days/ The best Usenet provider in the world has done it once again. Giganews announced just a few days ago that they would increase the current retention of 120 days to a whopping 200 days during the summer nearly doubling their storage capacities.

This is one of the many features that have been introduced by Giganews such as 256-bit SSL encryption which makes it impossible for your Internet Provider to spy on the traffic that is send to and received from Giganews.

Another feature is the additional software Giganews Accelerator which compresses the headers that are received from Giganews increasing the header download speed by a factor of almost six. Giganews offers a three day trial with a 1 Gigabyte limit for everyone who is interested in trying out the service. If the service is canceled in that time you will not be charged at all, if you do not cancel you simply use the normal plan that you have selected during signup.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/16/giganews-to-increase-binary-retention-to-200-days/feed/ 1 Giganews updates storage and offers 120 days retention http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/giganews-updates-storage-and-offers-120-days-retention/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/giganews-updates-storage-and-offers-120-days-retention/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:46:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/giganews-updates-storage-and-offers-120-days-retention/ Giganews (aff) which is in my opinion the best Usenet provider on the planet did it once again and upgraded their storage capacities to increase the retention of the Usenet files to 120 days. If you compare that to the retention level of other Usenet providers who sometimes offer a binary retention of 5-7 days you know the difference. If you never heard about the Usenet before let me give you a rough understanding of what it actually is.

A Usenet provider like Giganews gives you access to the Usenet which is basically a discussion platform where users can also post binaries. The binaries make the Usenet so attractive to everyone who feels that P2P is not safe anymore. Giganews offers SSL encryption which means that your Internet Service Provider does not know what you are exchanging with Giganews. If you want to get an impression of what the Usenet generally has to offer you might want to take a look at Newzbin and Binsearch. Those two sites are Usenet indexing sites that have records on many files that get posted day in day out on the Usenet.

Retention on the other hand is not everything. What good is a retention of 120 days if the files are all incomplete and useless to you ? Thankfully Giganews has a very high standard and offers more than 99% file completion which is a great figure for the Usenet. The speed is excellent as well, I can fully use my 16 Mbit connection and get 1.8 Megabytes per second using the encrypted connection to Giganews.

You do need a so called news reader software to be able to connect to the servers and download files to your computer. I’m using the commercial software Newsbin which is excellent. Grabit is a free alternative.

I have written a longer post in the past that gives you additional information, take a look why Giganews is the ultimate P2P Alternative.

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