Gig Math Explanation

In brief:

1 gigabyte = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes

1 gigabyte on NNTP = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * .75 = 805,306,368 bytes (25% discount for NNTP encoding overhead)

Easynews Big Gig:

HTTP: 150 gigs + 2 gigs (survey) + 2 gigs (UD/Grid.org) = 154 gigs to your harddrive.
or
NNTP: 150 gigs + 2 gigs (survey) + 2 gigs (UD/Grid.org) / .75 (25% discount for NNTP encoding overhead only) = 205.3 gigs to your harddrive

Easynews Plus:

HTTP: 40 gigs + 2 gigs (survey) + 2 gigs (UD/Grid.org) = 44 gigs to your harddrive.
or
NNTP: 40 gigs + 2 gigs (survey) + 2 gigs (UD/Grid.org) / .75 (25% discount for NNTP encoding overhead only) = 58.7 gigs to your harddrive

Easynews Classic:

HTTP: 20 gigs + 2 gigs (survey) + 2 gigs (UD/Grid.org) = 24 gigs to your harddrive.
or
NNTP: 20 gigs + 2 gigs (survey) + 2 gigs (UD/Grid.org) / .75 (25% discount for NNTP encoding overhead only) = 32 gigs to your harddrive

Detailed explanation:

Assuming you're an "Easynews Big Gig" account holder and you only use our NNTP server using a newsreader application without using our members website, you will be able to transfer up to 188.5 gigs to your hard drive for every 150 gigs in your gig bank + the 4 gigs from participating in the UD/Grid.org program and taking the survey. Only 75% of the bytes you transfer off of the nntp server are counted in your usage. Hence, if you transfer a 1 megabyte file to your harddrive from the NNTP server, then only 768 kilobytes of usage will show up for your account.

Here's the math:

• One gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes (1024 * 1024 * 1024)
• If you use NNTP exclusively and transfer this much to your harddrive, 75% will be counted in your usage with our service, or .75 * 1,073,741,824 bytes = 805,306,368 bytes = 768 megabytes
• Your gig bank will always be increased by 150 gigs every month (Easynews Gig Big account) regardless, but doing the survey AND participating in the UD/Grid.org makes you eligible to ADD up to 4 extra gigabytes a month to your gig bank.
• This makes you eligible to essentially have a 205.3 gigabyte limit per month doing the minimum of taking the surveys and only one installation (multiple installations on other computers can earn you more days of CPU time) of the UD/Grid.org setup.