Giganews Hits An Amazing 400 Days Newsgroup Retention
Tony Williams | Sep 11, 2009 | View Comments
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My favourite Usenet provider, Giganews, just made an amazing announcement -they now over 400 days of retention for their newsgroup service. That’s an amazing achievement. If you haven’t used Usenet yet then read on to learn why you should ditch your slow download speeds move over to Usenet, one of the webs best kept secrets.
Why should you use Usenet rather than other services? Because it is superfast and also more secure.
Speed
With other services you have to find somebody who has the file you want to download and then you can only download it as fast they can upload it or want to upload it. This can mean that downloads can take forever to download.
With Usenet you don’t download files directly from other users, you download files from central servers run by Usenet Providers that other users have uploaded. These servers have huge amounts of bandwidth, so if you use a good provider like Giganews you will always be able to download at your maximum speed. E.g. I have a 50Mbps connection and this means I can download a 4GB file in around 10 minutes!
Usenet providers measure how long they store files uploaded by users in Retention, so Giganews announcement of 400 days Retention means they store all files uploaded in the last 400 days, which is a huge amount of user generated content.
Security
As you know using some services is insecure and your activity can be monitored. This isn’t the case with Usenet which uses secure connections so no-one can see what you are downloading – ever.
The only catch with usenet is it isn’t free, but paying a small amount each month for peace-of-mind security and superfast access speeds is well worth the money in my opinion. Giganews, who I use even offer a 14-day free trial and 50% off your first two months of service so you got nothing to lose from giving it a go!
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