Giganews

I have been using Newshosting for the past 18 months and have had no problem at all. Unlimited account of cause with my downloed speed at 400kb/s if i am not sharing my network, and 200kb/s if sharing. They are reliable
 
Peerzy said:
I use to have Giganews, capped me after a bit at 100kb/s. Canceled and told them my problem and they promised to refund me. 3 months on no refund and they refuse to respond to my emails.

3 months of happy Newshosting here, compared with 15 days of shit Giganews service then being lied to and being cut off without asking to be.
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That's very strange...how long ago was that?
 
I've had no issues with GigaNews and have been using them for a bit more then a year now.

Of course I can only dl at 125k/s or so but I have had it going for weeks maxed out with no trouble :cool2: Lots of research materials on the NG's :)

:lol:

TD
 
I think NewsHosting is a much better deal at $15 a month for unlimited and dosent seem to mind splitting either and has just as good a retention and Ive never seen them cap anyone. In the past with GigaNews Ive heard quite a few complaints that heavy users have had their lines capped and when they ask why they are told that theyre unaware and that they dont cap, which it seems they do and then suggest to close their account and offten just close their account. If you decide to go with NewsHosing though dont forget the forums banner above or use our referral link at...
http://www.newshosting.com/?a=51500
 
Peerzy said:
I use to have Giganews, capped me after a bit at 100kb/s. Canceled and told them my problem and they promised to refund me. 3 months on no refund and they refuse to respond to my emails.

3 months of happy Newshosting here, compared with 15 days of shit Giganews service then being lied to and being cut off without asking to be.
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Sounds almost exactly like what happened to me. Just my opinion but anyone looking for the best value out of a usenet provider should use Newshosting. I'm lucky enough to have 9.0Mb where I live and Newshosting maxes my pipe with no problems and they have the same or better retention than Giganews when you grab stuff using NZBs.

$15/month with 70+d retention using NZBs = Can't beat that with a stick!

They have a new site also http://www.newshosting.com/NewSite/
 
Yes Giganews does cap if you download over 350GB a month (or something like that)...
May be a bit more GB...
 
i max out my 200kb/s with usenetserver 15 $ unlimited now.
for me it is faster than newshosting and giganews ever was.
but also depends on location you are.
just check traceroute and server location.
 
I've used both newshosting and giganews. Newshosting is great but I let them go since I was having unreliable speeds from their servers, wasn't maxing me out. I have been using giganews since but I don't really download much at all. I did have problems with giganews in the past where they did cap me and would not acknowledge they capped me so then I switched to newshosting and now I am back with giganews only cuz of the retention.

On other note, does anyone in North America use Eweka? I was considering trying them out. What kind of speeds are you getting and etc? Do they accept North American customers? I can't read their site, its all in Dutch :)
 
I just have been testing out GigaNews and NewsHosting speed with my connections.

For some reason the NewsHosting kepts droping for me.

Here is a screen shot of both, done right after the other, downloading from the same server. (parts of the same file)

Why the big drop off's ?
 
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