Giganews Review
2008 Editors' Choice Winner:
Best US / European Usenet
From very high retention rates to blazing fast speeds Giganews has it all. Let's start by reviewing their retention. They offer 200 days of binary retention in over 110,000 uncensored newsgroups. This is an area where some usenet servers advertise high rates and then you find its only in text groups or a few binary groups. That is not the case with Giganews. They have the highest retention rate of all the newsgroup servers we've tested. Completion follows suit with 99%+ completion rates.
In early summer 2007 Giganews announced that they would be offering 200 days of binary retention. The upgrade from 120 to 200 days took place day to day through the summer. In early September they hit the 200 days binary retention goal. This was a huge upgrade considering each day of retention equals 2.5+ terabytes of disk space.
Speed - Giganews took first place when it comes to bandwidth. We easily maxed out a 7+ Mbps connection with SSL enabled for long periods of time at all hours of the day.
Encryption - you want secure Usenet access? They've got it. It will cost you a little extra but you can add 256 bit SSL encryption and an additional 10 connections for $5 a month. The most impressive part was that our speeds were tremendous even with SSL enabled. You always expect encryption to slow down connection speeds to compensate for the additional overhead. We were able to stay over 7 Mbps with SSL enabled.
Pricing plans... Giganews offers monthly Usenet plans including 2 GB/month for $7.99, 25 GB/month for $12.99 and unlimited newsgroup accounts from $24.99/month. You can add SSL and another 10 connections to any plan for $5/month.
Support - prompt and knowledgeable. According to Giganews they have customers in over 180 countries and therefore offer 24/7 support with a 10 minute average response time on support tickets. They also offer a customer satisfaction survey for every support incident.
Bottom line - Giganews brings the most to the table when it comes to newsgroup access. Their speed, retention and completion rank #1 among our Editors' Choice winners. We highly recommend you give them a try.
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