Giganews Announces ‘365 Special’ and Commitment to 365 Days of Retention

[RealitY]

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9529/20041015343giganewsy.gifGiganews, Inc., the world's foremost premium Usenet provider, today announced their commitment to extend content availability to an unprecedented 365 days. Giganews will continue upgrading data storage around the world, ultimately providing members with access to a full year of content.

Timed with the retention announcement, the ‘Giganews 365 Special’ cuts the subscription cost of Diamond and Platinum unlimited accounts by 50% for the first three months for returning and new members. This puts the cost of an unlimited Giganews Usenet account at $12.49 for the first time.

This special provides 50% off Diamond and Platinum unlimited
accounts for the first 3 months of service for new customers.

Unlimited Giganews access with SSL for only $14.99 for the first three months!
Unlimited Giganews access for only $12.49 for the first three months!
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[Skiz]

I knew it was coming... :01:

[SonsOfLiberty]

Still Astraweb is cheaper and only trailing by a few days and plus another News provider is upping it to 400 days, so suck on that Giga.

[dutchmaster420]

if the price drop was for life instead of 3 months id consider switching...but since its not they have nothing on astraweb price/service wize even with the new 365 they announced

[Hairbautt]

As long as Bright House still keeps it free with 100 days rent. I'd still good on my end.

[Broken]

Retention has almost become a none issue.
200 days or so is plenty with the constant repost on Usenent.

Giganew's problem is price. When you have other quality providers (astraweb) offering nearly a year at half the price - with good all around performance.
It's just too hard to justify paying such a high premium for their service anymore.

[tusks]

Retention has almost become a none issue.
200 days or so is plenty with the constant repost on Usenent.

Giganew's problem is price. When you have other quality providers (astraweb) offering nearly a year at half the price - with good all around performance.
It's just too hard to justify paying such a high premium for their service anymore.

Completely agree with you. With 200+ days retention, it's pretty easy to find most things so price becomes the only issue and it's why I won't be switching back to giganews from astraweb.

[Skiz]

I don't mind at all; I'm sticking with Giganews.

Sure, the price is a bit more but it's piece of mind I'm paying that tad extra for. We routinely see threads regarding inconsistent speeds with Astraweb and a few others.

I can't recall ever seeing a thread in that respect regarding Giganews. I can't recall seeing any issues at all actually. I'm not saying there haven't ever been any, but the ratio has to be largely in their favor. That's easily worth the extra for me.

[dutchmaster420]

Skizo astrawebs service is right on par with giganews...i constantly max my 30mb line and never had any probs whatsoever and very rarely do i even need pars, and ive been with them for a while now...why pay $20 dollars a month, its crazy talk!!!:)


They need to come down to at least $15 a month unlimited locked in for life with free SSL and the 365 day rentention there going up to...then we'd have some competition:)

also one more point...giga should start offering block accounts again like astra


I don't mind at all; I'm sticking with Giganews.

Sure, the price is a bit more but it's piece of mind I'm paying that tad extra for. We routinely see threads regarding inconsistent speeds with Astraweb and a few others.

I can't recall ever seeing a thread in that respect regarding Giganews. I can't recall seeing any issues at all actually. I'm not saying there haven't ever been any, but the ratio has to be largely in their favor. That's easily worth the extra for me.

[Funkin']

To me the extra $14 a month over Astraweb does not come anywhere near justifying the extra retention(270 days is more than enough).

What a joke...

[SonsOfLiberty]

Retention has almost become a none issue.
200 days or so is plenty with the constant repost on Usenent.

Giganew's problem is price. When you have other quality providers (astraweb) offering nearly a year at half the price - with good all around performance.
It's just too hard to justify paying such a high premium for their service anymore.


Coming from someone with Giga in their sig :lol:


I don't mind at all; I'm sticking with Giganews.

Sure, the price is a bit more but it's piece of mind I'm paying that tad extra for. We routinely see threads regarding inconsistent speeds with Astraweb and a few others.

I can't recall ever seeing a thread in that respect regarding Giganews. I can't recall seeing any issues at all actually. I'm not saying there haven't ever been any, but the ratio has to be largely in their favor. That's easily worth the extra for me.


Well, for one, those people are getting throttled, they would with Giga too, next they don't know how to reset their modem/router, they use clients like grabit that doesn't support Astraweb, and of course there pretty much new...I've been with Astra for awhile and max out everything all the time. :happy:

The only thing through Giga your paying for is extra retention, and SSL...wow that's such a great deal, but it's not.

[tasker12]

But astraweb offers SSL for "free"... I always maxed out my 100mbit connection, but now I have 1gbit so i can maybe pull around 15-20MB/s, but I could get another astraweb deal 11x2 and pull 30-40MB/s for the same price as giganews...

astraweb rocks, giganews is going down!

[mbucari1]

But astraweb offers SSL for "free"... I always maxed out my 100mbit connection, but now I have 1gbit so i can maybe pull around 15-20MB/s, but I could get another astraweb deal 11x2 and pull 30-40MB/s for the same price as giganews...

astraweb rocks, giganews is going down!maybe you should get a giganews trial account and test it's speeds. If it can give to 30-40MB/s then why not get it instead of t astraweb accounts?

[SonsOfLiberty]

I get exactly the same speeds, I'm the same distance (roughly) from both Giganews and Astraweb's data centers...

[unoriginal]

I just dont trust Giganews at this point with their retention. They let it drop from a leading 240 down to 200 without doing anything about it. Sure they are going to 365 now but why not throw more hardware to keep the service level with what you are supposedly offering in the first place. But I see this as an issue with anyone these days. I will be very interested to see if Astraweb, GN or Highwind can keep up with the volume of posts and proactively stay on top of any retentions issues.

[Overlord]

They're supposedly implementing a continuous upgrade policy to maintain 365-day retention, something they should have done last summer. One thing that really angered me about them is that right up to their announcement they continued to advertise 240 days even though they knew that it was 210 days. Now they've got a counter for their new upgrade and it's at 219 days.

[SonsOfLiberty]

Maybe their trying to make as much money as possible before the heat comes on them....you gotta think, how much longer will "usenet" last in it's current form... ISP's in the "states" say they dropped NG's because of "kiddie porn", but we all know that's not the real reason, it's the mass distribution of certain content.

[Broken]

The legality of newsgroups has been questioned in court before.

They are recognized has an ISP equivalent, with the same obligations under the DMCA. It is recognized that they do not have direct control or knowledge of the content on their servers. To stay in compliance with the law all they have to do is promptly take down content if someone alleges it infringes their copyrights, which they do. As long as they do - they have immunity from any liability.

Newsgroups have and will stay in their current form for the foreseeable future.
Newgroups are the cockroach of filesharing. They were around long before, and will be around long after all other filesharing is dead.

[SonsOfLiberty]

Hmm....I guess that means Rapidshare is like Usenet then huh....ummm...no.