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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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So called nzb files have been created to make the downloading of files from the Usenet (often referred to as newsgroups which is technically not correct) easier and more comfortable. Files are uploaded in parts to the Usenet, and while Usenet software did a good job at recognizing and merging those parts to file names, [...]

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