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In the realm of usenet service providers, Giganews is the top dog. With this Giganews review, we're going to examine most of the main reasons why they've obtained this status, and just how Giganews is working to maintain and expand that lead.
When discussing usenet, and usenet service providers, where you need to start is retention. Specifically binary retention. Another highlight is the situation of text article retention, and most services retain text articles longer times than they do binary articles. In reality, the Giganews text article archive goes back over seven years. For those times you posted something to usenet back in 2003, two apartments and three computers ago, you are able to still get it back. And that is not nothing.
However, the key thing most of us have in mind when they think of retention times is binary retention. Giganews is a industry leader in this field, retaining binary files on its servers for 800 days. That's over 2 years. Bid farewell to those "article not found" errors.
But of course, all that retention time won't matter when the articles aren't complete. Sure, file recovery systems like par2 undoubtedly are a usenet standard today (and were 2 years ago), but that only goes so far. Article completion will be second major way of measuring a usenet service provider. On Giganews, this rate is 99% , putting it within the top tier in this field.
Another thing everyone searches for inside of a usenet provider is speed. Giganews is top tier on this one, too. Their own unique website puts it best: "With multiple gigabit-plus backbones running at a fraction of capacity, Giganews gives you all the speed you'll need to enjoy your favorite newsgroups. Our extensive network of private connections to Internet Service Providers allows many of our members to connect with super low latency and minimum hops."
Yet another thing to make note of is always that a Giganews review written just a year or two ago will have been passing along some different stats. Which is because Giganews is working constantly to further improve and expand on their unique service. Nowhere is this more obvious than with retention times. Just some time ago it had been 700 days. Just last year is the moment they reached 600. The fact is that, this reviewer can attest personally to reading a Giganews review from three to four years ago, and finding myself in awe of the fact that they'd gotten up to and including a whole 100 days. Let alone, during the time it's taken me to publish this review, I've gone back and re-checked that 800 days statistic only to realize that they've now pushed it to 821!
No Giganews review is going to be complete with out a mention of the wide variety of account types and options available. There's something for anyone, from the top end Diamond Account, with unlimited downloads, free SSL, free VyprVPN virtual private network functionality, plus the newly added Mimo usenet browser optimized for image downloading. For downloaders within a strict budget, the $4.99 monthly plan gives 5 GB every month and twenty simultaneous connections.
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