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Originally Posted by crocos
Hmm... The Golden Frog ViprVPN service is $19.99 USD/month separately
The 50GB Giganews "Silver" service is $15USD/month
If going to get both, that's $35/month - the same price as the Giganews Diamond account, yet the Diamond account includes the mimo newsgroup client (alleged only one that can properly search the Giganews archives), Golden Frog's ViprVPN (Pro version by the looks... unclear if OpenVPN is included from the Giganews site), and unlimited downloads, so is by far the more flexible solution.
On the other hand as they are all 256-bit SSL encrypted connections, if you feel that is enough and you wouldn't exceed 50GB then Silver is probably best value - next size down is 10GB for $10/m which is pretty limited really, next size up is unlimited for $25/m.
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Crocos, why do you want both? Is it just that much better getting stuff via newsgroups? Do we expect that the RIANZ etc is going to be able to monitor downloads from newsgroups to NZ? And, do we expect that having a VPN would be sufficient to hide what you're doing from the local mucky mucks? Or is this a case of 'everything we can do to hide ourselves we should'?