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
Max Conn
Binary Retention
VyprVPN
Mimo Usenet Browser
Dump Truck
Golden frog Usenet Search
*Diamond
$29.99
Unlimited
256-bit SSL
50
days
Yes, Pro
Yes
30GB
Yes
Platinum
$19.99
Unlimited
256-bit SSL
20
days
Yes, Basic
Yes
5GB
Yes
Silver
$14.99
50GB
256-bit SSL
20
days
add fee
Yes
5GB
Yes
Bronze
$9.99
10GB
256-bit SSL
20
days
add fee
Yes
5GB
Yes
Pearl
$4.99
5GB
256-bit SSL
20
30 days
add fee
Yes
5GB
Yes
*Diamond plan now offers first 3 months at $14.99
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.
Dump Truck is personal online storage you can use to store documents, photos, videos, and more.