AT&T cable to Comcast.. now 1GB bandwidth limit per MONTH!? WTF?

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Spam has rendered the usenet useless to me. How do you sort out the quality posts?

Well, first you make it easier to find them by not POSTING BULLSH|T POSTS LIKE THIS.

 

[PoPPeR]

jesus i was gonna say... since I had to completely format yesterday I've already downloaded 12 gigs in the past 2 days on my comcast cable

 

[Twista]

hmmmm.. I have had att for awhile and now comcast they said everything is the same wtf this doesnt effect everyone.

 

[MaxDSP]

whew, I thought they put that into effect for web use. Maybe its a good thing I never learned how to use newsgroups...

 

[Twista]

So is this 1gb limit for your whole service like playing quake3 online and downloading music and downloading files? Or just for newsgroups?

 

[psianime]

THE 1GB LIMIT ONLY APPLIES TO NEWGROUPS

If you do not use newsgroups, this does not effect you. Pass go and collect $200.

 

[beer]

newsgroups
for the third time in this thread

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: A5

Originally posted by: royaldankAnyone know what Knology's deal is? From reading, they provide SuperNews accounts, but I can't find anywhere that says it's limited. I'm buying a house soon, and I'm hoping it's in a Knology location. Anyone know about SuperNews for that matter? Their stats on their site look real impressive as far as groups and retention.

Knology has no limit or cap. Downloading from newsgroups at 1 mbit is fun

Yeah, I'll bet that is. Probably same or better than @Home a couple years ago.

What is the retention and completeness like? I'm real interested in how complete files are ordinarily. I'm also assuming it's just one server (since that prob. maxes your d/l bandwidth), or are there multiple servers? Also, from the SuperNews page, it seems they have a lot of groups...more than some pay services I've used. Do you find this to be true?

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
newsgroups
for the third time in this thread

Change the title than this is going to confuse a bunch just from the thread title.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Spam has rendered the usenet useless to me. How do you sort out the quality posts?

Well, first you make it easier to find them by not POSTING BULLSH|T POSTS LIKE THIS.

And reading bullsh!t posts by you...tell me something that I don't know already

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Spam has rendered the usenet useless to me. How do you sort out the quality posts?

Well, first you make it easier to find them by not POSTING BULLSH|T POSTS LIKE THIS.

And reading bullsh!t posts by you...tell me something that I don't know already

Okay, I will. Never start a sentance with "and." Saying "...reading bullsh|t posts by you..." is passive. Make it active by saying "Reading your bullsh|t posts..." which will be more acceptable and not so clumsy to read.

These three dots ("...") are known as an ellipsis (pronounced ee-lip-sis).

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Spam has rendered the usenet useless to me. How do you sort out the quality posts?

Well, first you make it easier to find them by not POSTING BULLSH|T POSTS LIKE THIS.

And reading bullsh!t posts by you...tell me something that I don't know already

Okay, I will. Never start a sentance with "and." Saying "...reading bullsh|t posts by you..." is passive. Make it active by saying "Reading your bullsh|t posts..." which will be more acceptable and not so clumsy to read.

These three dots ("...") are known as an ellipsis (pronounced ee-lip-sis).

Are you still upset that Greg called the cops on you last week on his way to work?

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Spam has rendered the usenet useless to me. How do you sort out the quality posts?

Well, first you make it easier to find them by not POSTING BULLSH|T POSTS LIKE THIS.

And reading bullsh!t posts by you...tell me something that I don't know already

Okay, I will. Never start a sentance with "and." Saying "...reading bullsh|t posts by you..." is passive. Make it active by saying "Reading your bullsh|t posts..." which will be more acceptable and not so clumsy to read.

These three dots ("...") are known as an ellipsis (pronounced ee-lip-sis).

Are you still upset that Greg called the cops on you last week on his way to work?

What happen there? Details...

KK

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Spam has rendered the usenet useless to me. How do you sort out the quality posts?

Well, first you make it easier to find them by not POSTING BULLSH|T POSTS LIKE THIS.

And reading bullsh!t posts by you...tell me something that I don't know already

Okay, I will. Never start a sentance with "and." Saying "...reading bullsh|t posts by you..." is passive. Make it active by saying "Reading your bullsh|t posts..." which will be more acceptable and not so clumsy to read.

These three dots ("...") are known as an ellipsis (pronounced ee-lip-sis).

Are you still upset that Greg called the cops on you last week on his way to work?

What happen there? Details...

KK

Don't see it. Mods must have removed it

 

[brtspears2]

Go for easynews. Use their Http interface. Problem solved.

 

[ElFenix]

newsfeeds!

 

[UncleWai]

I hope Comcast is going to raise the fee soon because I really appreciate them decreasing the quality of the service. In the mean time I will go hug and kiss a poisonous snake.

netnews.comcast.net still work at at the moment,
go download'em all before it's too late.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
It's just for usenet.
If it's 1GB/month for internet, I would have set the comcast building on fire.

hahaha

 

[AsianriceX]

What I want to know for sure is if that 1GB limit only applies to comcast customers before the merge, or if it applies to both people before the merge and the ATTBI customers that they sucked in. Unlimited bandwidth with attbi was great, I'd hate to see it go.

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: AsianriceX
What I want to know for sure is if that 1GB limit only applies to comcast customers before the merge, or if it applies to both people before the merge and the ATTBI customers that they sucked in. Unlimited bandwidth with attbi was great, I'd hate to see it go.

This is a non-issue for me since I don't use any of these services. I have Optimum Online! But, in regards to what you said above, if Comcast is buying ATTBI then I would have to assume that ATTBI would be affected by this bandwidth limit.

 

[Smolek]

Originally posted by: AsianriceX
What I want to know for sure is if that 1GB limit only applies to comcast customers before the merge, or if it applies to both people before the merge and the ATTBI customers that they sucked in. Unlimited bandwidth with attbi was great, I'd hate to see it go.

it appplies to ALL comcast customers

 

[Mallow]

I have heard of upload limits but not d/l... that would be screwy.

 

[Noirish]

if it only applies to usenet, it doesn't really affect me.
i don't use usenet to download stuff anyway.
they better not limit how i upload and download stuff outside of usenet; otherwise, there is an alternative call DSL.

 

[Smolek]

right now there is no plan to cap internet surfing, just usenet/newsgroups.

 

[Salvador]

If you don't like it, get a different ISP. Problem solved.

Great idea! I think I'll have to give AOL a call. Comcast (formerly ATT, which was formerly @home in our area) is the only game in town unfortunately.

Sal