Giganews Review
![]() | If you are familiar with usenet, you surely have heard the name Giganews. Giganews runs their usenetservice since 1994 and has always been known for:
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In the long time i've been around the usenet, i never came across a person who was not satisfied with his or her Giganews account.
When you look at the Giganews priceplans, you might think that they are a little overpriced, but believe me, you get so much more than just usenet access!
Let's have a look at the Giganews Diamond plan.
In addition to usenet access you also get:
- Free Personal VPN service- VyprVPN - for completely secure surfing and downloading
- the Mimo usenet browser - there is no need to buy a seperate newsreader
- Giganews Accelerator - a program that allows you to download headers up to 10 times faster
- free Dump Truck online storage

- just $34.99 a month
Not so expensive anymore right? If you are not convinced yet, Giganews will offer you a free 14 day trial and 50% off for the first three months!!
In addition to that, they also have real fast support with a friendly support staff - not that you would need to contact them often, because i can not remember any Giganews outage.
The Giganews Diamond Plan offers you:
Days Retention- 99,9% Completion
- uncensored newsgroups
- up to 50 SSL encrypted connections
- Usenet Server farms in North America, Europe and Asia
- 30 GB free Dump Truck online storage
- 24/7 Support
- just $34.99 (50% off first three months!) a month
But Giganews has more than one pricplan. If you don't need VyprVPN and the mimo newsreader you can signup for Giganews Platinum, which offers you:
- unlimited usenet downloads
- 20 SSL encrypted connections
- uncensored newsgroups
- Usenet Server farms in North America, Europe and Asia
- 5 GB free Dump Truck online storage
- just $24.99 a month
So what are you waiting for? Sign up with Giganews today to start your free 14 day trial and save 50% for the first three months!
Server - Information...
General Server:
General Server: news.giganews.com
EU Server: news-europe.giganews.com
Ports: 119, 23, or 80
SSLPorts: 563 & 443
SSL and non-SSL Serveradresses are identical.
More info:
SSL Upload : Yes
X-Trace in Header: Yes







