484 DAYS AND BEYOND...
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Members Say
It has been a pleasure to be a customer since 1999. The outstanding and unsurpassed reliability of Giganews' Usenet Newsgroups service, along with the consistent high quality of customer support assure that I will remain a loyal customer for many years to come.
- Reliability
- At Giganews we know that, to you, reliability actually means usability. This is why we've always offered you excellent completion, the world's longest binary and text retention, and congestion free systems — all supporting a service which practically never goes down!
- Retention
- With the world's longest newsgroup binary retention of 484 days and text retention of 2356 days, you'll get all the articles you're looking for without having to camp out in your favorite groups.
- Speed
- With multiple gigabit+ backbones running at a fraction of capacity, Giganews gives you all the speed you’ll need to enjoy your favorite newsgroups. Our extensive system of private network connections to Internet Service Providers also allows many of our members to connect with super low latency and minimum hops. Connect to our speed tester to see for yourself.
- Completion
- As the world's largest Tier 1 Usenet provider, Giganews is the source for more Usenet articles than any other server on Earth. Combine this with our extensive network of Usenet peers and you start to see why Giganews is the only newsgroups server able to truly offer greater than 99% completion.
- Uncensored Newsgroups
- Giganews provides access to over 109,000 uncensored newsgroups. You'll be able to find all the information you're looking for without having to worry about missing articles in your favorite groups.
- Privacy
- Giganews respects your privacy, which is why we will never share your information with outside parties or track your downloads (unless required by law).
Features & Metrics
- Binary Retention: 484 days
- Text Retention: 2356 days
- Completion: 99%+
- Newsgroups: 109,000+
- Allowed Streams: Up to 50
- Servers: North America, Europe, Asia
- Free Headers: YES
- Unlimited Account: YES
- Referral Rewards: YES
- 24x7 E-mail Support: YES
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