Premium Usenet provider Giganews has added several new services that are free of charge to Diamond account users in recent years. Diamond users not only get one of the fastest most complete Usenet experiences on the Internet, but also access to a virtual private network, a free Usenet browser and now also to 30 Gigabytes [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Giganews Usenet Reaches 1200 Days Retention
I have to admit that I’m pretty biased when it comes to Giganews and Usenet access in specific. I have been a happy Giganews customer for years, even though I pay a premium price for a premium service. Giganews did a lot to improve their service and product in past years. I’m talking about the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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NZBGrab, Desktop Search For Usenet NZBs
NZB files are pretty handy. If you have never worked with newsgroups, or more precisely binary newsgroups before, you are probably wondering what those files are used for. See, files get uploaded to the Usenet in chunks or parts. And while excellent software like Newsbin Pro is capable of merging them all so that you [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Giganews Usenet Now With 1000 Days Retention
1000 days of retention, wow, that is a lot. That is almost three years full of data retention. I remember that my first Usenet provider stored data for a few days after which they were deleted. Not enough time to go on holiday for two weeks and to come back to continue where you left [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Giganews 1000-Days Retention Giveaway
I love Giganews. The Usenet provider never let me down since I started using their service exclusively years ago. Sure, their pricing is a tad higher than that of other Usenet providers, but I think that it is well deserved. Especially the Diamond account is in my opinion still a bargain considering that you not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Giganews Introduces Two VyprVPN Security Options
You know that I’m a pretty happy Giganews customer, never had problems with their Usenet service and everything has been top notch ever since I signed up for my first account back in 2005. That’s 17 Terabytes of data ago. Giganews has improved and expanded their Usenet service ever since, better retention, faster servers, the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Usenet Traffic Growth To Almost 9TB Per Day
Usenet traffic has increased from 5 Terabytes per day in January 2009 to almost 9 Terabytes of traffic per day two years later. The statistics have been collected by Giganews, one of the world’s largest Usenet providers. Especially the last six month have seen an incredible growth by almost 50% in daily traffic. This increase [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Use VyprVPN To Access US-Only Websites
Hulu, Pandora, ABC, CBS, NBC and hundreds of other sites in the United States limit their contents to viewers from the US. If you live outside, or happen to be overseas you won’t be able to access the contents of those sites. That’s bad if you are on a business trip in Europe and do [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mimo, Free Giganews Usenet Reader, Downloader
Many Internet users shy away from the Usenet because of the complexity of the setup. Users need an account, which they either get from their ISP, or a third party Usenet provider like Giganews. But a Usenet account is not all that is needed. Users furthermore need a Usenet client, like Newsbin, that acts as [...]
