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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XSUsenet, Free Lifetime Usenet Access
I’m very cautious when I see sites making claims that they offer a service for free for a lifetime. There is usually a catch, just like there is when you see hosting providers offer unlimited bandwidth, but that’s another story. The Dutch Usenet provider XSUsenet is currently offering free lifetime accounts to access the Usenet. [...]
- 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: 9
Giganews Reaches 600 Days Of Binary Retention
My Usenet provider of choice Giganews has reached a binary retention level of 600 days with no end in sight (That’s a huge leap considering that they were the first to reach 100 days in 2007). Binary retention refers to the time the binary data, that is the files that are uploaded to the Usenet, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 224
Christmas Giveaway Giganews Accounts
The Usenet can be best described to users who have never come in contact with it as a global forum with hundreds of thousands of groups and the ability for everyone to post and reply. The messages that get posted and read are called articles or posts and they are posted to so called newsgroups [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
Usenet Provider Giganews Reaches 400 Days Of Data Retention
Giganews has been my Usenet provider for the last couple of years. Before that I switched from service to service only to be disappointed eventually by poor performance or connection problems. Yes, these services were cheaper than Giganews but you did get what you paid for, at least back then. The Usenet provider landscape has [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Giganews Usenet Trials
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 [...]