Limited Offer Giganews Usenet is offering a special price of only $17.49 for the first 3 months on their Diamond account. This is over $50 in savings and, as always, includes a 14-day free trial account.

Giganews Usenet Review

Giganews Usenet has long been at the cutting edge of the Tier-1 NNTP service providers.

Custom server software provides fast, redundant, distributed access to newsgroups.
NNTP servers in USA, Europe and Asia
days binary retention - the longest retention for any Tier-1 provider I know of
Very fast download speeds
- I get over 8Mbps download speed from European servers
- I get over 21Mbps download speed from US servers
- Test your connection speed
14-day free usenet trial

A little more detail on the speed of the connection I get from Giganews Usenet; I am located in Independence, MO just outside Kansas City, I have a Comcast business class connection and I used the Newsgroup Download Speed Test on the link I gave above.
Looking at my search page you can see that I get comparable active file transfer speed from Giganews Usenet as I get from "MY SERVER" which is literally sitting 6-inches away on a GigE connection. I hope this is just because of the old 486 machine that I am running news on, and the large number of peers it connects to, and not a reflection of my networks actual performance. Either way, the connection speed from Giganews Usenet is impressive.

Giganews Usenet has consistently added new services and features, many that are available to all users and some which come free to Diamond account members. Features added in just the past few years include:

VyprVPN - a secure, encrypted internet connection that protects your privacy. VyprVPN is free to Diamond account users, or available for separate purchase from the developer, GoldenFrog. Versions are available for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone/iPad/iTouch and Android operating systems.
Giganews Accelerator - provides header compression for improved download speeds and 256-bit SSL encryption for all accounts.
This provides what I call "poor man's privacy" for your account, ie. encryption prevents your ISP from seeing what groups you are downloading from, etc. However, it is still possible for your ISP to know what sites and/or what services (HTTP/S, NNTP/S, etc) you are using from those sites, which they can use for various things including throttling your connection speeds.
MIMO Browser - a full usenet browser with built-in support for RAR and PAR files, threaded message reading and image viewing. It also has an integrated search feature, built-in Giganews Accelerator and has been optimized to deal with Giganews' large retention time and article count. MIMO is free to Diamond account users and, unlike most other usenet browsers on the market, this one is still under active development.
Online Storage - Giganews Usenet has developed an online storage service called Dump Truck. Dump Truck utilizes their impressive distributed storage architecture that currently provides access to NNTP and the service is included with all accounts.

Unlimited Plans
Diamond Plan
$24.99 per month for the first 3 months, a $30 savings
$17.49 per month for the first 3 months, over a $50 savings
Days Retention
256-bit SSL
50 connections
VyprVPN
MIMO Browser
30GB Online Storage
Platinum Plan
$24.99 per month
Days Retention
256-bit SSL
20 connections
5GB Online Storage

Metered Plans
Silver Plan
$14.99 per month
50GB Transer
20 connections
256-bit SSL
Days Retention
5GB Online Storage
Bronze Plan
$9.99 per month
10GB Transer
20 connections
256-bit SSL
Days Retention
5GB Online Storage
Pearl Plan
$4.99 per month
5GB Transer
30 Days Retention
5GB Online Storage