Public Servers

In Usenet terms, public servers refer to those that are open for anyone to connect to. These servers may be acceptable in some specific situations, but they usually suffer from short retention, speed issues, or other undesirable effects. If you're serious about Usenet access, getting your access through Giganews is the best choice you can make.

• Giganews carries over 110,000 newsgroups. Public servers can only handle a fraction of that.
• 2203+ days of text retention, 331+ days of binary retention. Public servers are known to retain text articles for two weeks or less, and many don't even carry binary articles!
• True broadband speed. Giganews has the power to take full advantage of your internet connection, while a public server will be lucky to sustain even marginal speeds.
• No censorship. Giganews guarantees that we will never censor articles that come to our servers (unless required by law). The policy on a public server can be quite different.
• Reliable technical support. Most public servers offer no support whatsoever. The support team at Giganews is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

When comparing Giganews to public servers, there's really no contest. Check out our free 14 day trial offer and see the difference for yourself.