gHacks technology news » giganews usenet 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 Upgrades Retention To 365 Days http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/21/giganews-upgrades-retention-to-365-days/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/21/giganews-upgrades-retention-to-365-days/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:03:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/21/giganews-upgrades-retention-to-365-days/ File retention is one of the biggest arguments for or against a Usenet provider next to similarly important factors such as connection speeds, completion rate, security and the price / download ratio the service is offering. Giganews, the one and only Usenet provider that I do recommend, announced just a few days ago that they raise the bar once again by providing their customers with a 365 day binary retention of files that get uploaded to the Usenet. The new retention rate will be updated gradually which means it will take another five months before the final retention rate of 365 days is reached.

Currently about 5 Terabyte of data gets uploaded by users world wide to the Usenet, a figure that is surely about to increase as the popularity of Usenet services rise. Giganews is currently running so called Usenet trials which offer the first three months of Usenet access of some of their Usenet plans for half the usual price. Users can for example get an unmetered unlimited download plan for $12.49 or the premium Diamond plan with additional SSL encryption and 20 consecutive connections for $14.99.

What do you get for that? If you have never heard about Usenet or Newsgroups before you might be wary about joining a Usenet provider. That’s understandable. A good start is to take a look at our Usenet Search article which contains links to several Usenet Search Engines. They can be used just like any other search engine. Just enter a name in the search form and look at the results. Downloads are only possible with a Usenet account and a software client for Usenet. There are several choices, we outlined one in our Usenet Client article.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/21/giganews-upgrades-retention-to-365-days/feed/ 6 Giganews Usenet Trials http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/07/giganews-usenet-trials/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/07/giganews-usenet-trials/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:38:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10990 You know that I’m a happy Giganews customer. I have been using their Usenet service for the last years and they never let me down. Sure, they are not the cheapest Usenet provider when it comes to comparing the monthly subscription prices but they quality level surpasses anything else on the market.

Giganews are running trial offers right now that reduce the price of their two most popular Usenet accounts by 50% for the first three months. That means that you can get their most popular account (the one that I’m using btw.) for $14.99 instead of $29.99. The account will get you unlimited bandwidth, 256-bit SSL encryption and 20 connections to their services which usually means full speed downloads even for fast Internet connections. I cap at 1.8 Megabytes per second with my 16 Mbit connection and 10 connections to Giganews.

Users who want to test the Usenet account do need a Usenet client as well to be able to connect to the Usenet servers. There are a few free clients available like Alt.Binz. That’s all that is needed to get everyone started with Usenet. Some additional tips include using the Giganews Accelerator to speed up header retrieval from Giganews servers and to take a look at the Usenet Search article to access some of the best search engines available to find the files that you are looking for.

The Giganews accounts come all with a 14-day free trial period for extra safety. You will not be charged if you quit in that period and followed the rules outlined on the Giganews pages.

Here is the list of steps again:

  • Visit the Giganews website and signup for an account.
  • Download Alt.Binz or another Usenet client.
  • Download Giganews Accelerator to speed up header retrieval
  • Use Usenet search engines to find the files that you are looking for.

I think that the offer is a fair one especially for new users who never accessed Usenet in their life. Keep in mind that the monthly price changes to the usual after the first three months though.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/07/giganews-usenet-trials/feed/ 0 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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