Giganews is one of the biggest, oldest and most important Usenet Provider these days. They started on 1994 with a single server, and have grown up to what they are today. They use multi homed Gigabit connections to several Internet backbones which optimizes upstream speeds.
They currently provide 5 easy to understand plans:
Plans
Price
Bandwidth
Encryption
Simultaneous Connections
Binary Retention
VyprVPN
Mimo Usenet Browser
Golden frog Usenet Search
Diamond
$34.99
Unlimited
256-bit SSL
50
days
Yes
Yes
Yes
Platinum
$24.99
Unlimited
256-bit SSL
20
days
No
No
No
Silver
$14.99
50GB
256-bit SSL
20
days
No
No
No
Bronze
$9.99
10GB
256-bit SSL
20
days
No
No
No
Pearl
$4.99
5GB
256-bit SSL
20
30 days
No
No
No
The most important Giganews features are:
14-day trial offer, which allows you to test-drive their service, and even better, they give you 10GB of transfer with that 14-day trial.
Days of retention in text newsgroups.
Days retention in binary newsgroups.
Headers are free, they don't count toward your allowable download quota.
99% completion rate
VyprVPN is a personal VPN Service to Secure your Internet Connection, available on Diamond plan only.
