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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 8th, 2007
  • Comments: 6

Giganews Accelerator Beta

The world’s best Usenet provider Giganews has managed it once again to set another milestone by creating a software called Giganews Accelerator which uses header download compression to download the headers of the newsgroup up to 10 times faster. Header downloads are the most annoying part when it comes to using the Usenet. It sometimes takes longer to download the headers of a popular newsgroup than to download a 700 Megabytes file with my 16 Mbit connection.

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Categories: Cool, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 13th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Giganews updates storage and offers 120 days retention

Giganews 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.

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Categories: P2p, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 2nd, 2007
  • Comments: 2

Giganews has now 100 days of retention

The usenet provider Giganews announced today that they would increase the retention of all binary newsgroups to 100 days over the next two weeks. If you never have heard about the usenet before let me explain the concept with just a few words. The usenet can be divided into binary and discussion groups. Thousands of binary groups for every purpose, from mp3 to movie to games exist and every user who has usenet access is able to download all the files that get posted to the usenet daily.

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 28th, 2006
  • Comments: 7

Giganews offers Encrypted Usenet Access

Giganews announced yesterday that they are offering SSL encrypted usenet access as of now. All existing users may upgrade their accounts for $5 and receive the ability to use encrypted access to the usenet and also 10 additional connections to Giganews. You do not need the additional 10 connections unless you have a really fast line at home. I always max out my 16 Mbit connection with ten connections already giving me speeds of 1.8 megabyte per second.

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 17th, 2006
  • Comments: 22

Newsgroups, the ultimate P2P alternative.

P2P is in the news, every day. You see organizations like the RIAA hunting down fileshares, you read about trojans and virii that are spread through P2P networks. Everything seems rather risky at the moment. A new player is emerging from the shadows which is using a very old communication system, the Usenet. You might know a part of the usenet if you ever read something from google groups. Google Groups is an archive of the part of the usenet that looks similar to bulletin boards.

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Categories: Advice

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