Comcast users...

[konichiwa]

Do you use the GigaNews service for NNTP? It has a quota of 1GB per month which is pretty skimpy ...

 

[LOLyourFace]

yea 1gb is so little, i gave up completely using newsgroups after i hit the first 1gb mark.

 

[Wolfsraider]

no

there are too many mirror places to bother with limits lol

 

[konichiwa]

"mirror places"?

 

[waylman]

i had this problem also, so i signed up with easynews. 6gb/month for 10bucks

 

[MastaTam]

Comcast actually has its own newsservers which are fairly decent. Great speeds, great completion rate, and 1-2 days retention time. the address is netnews.comcast.net. You don't need a login name or password. In addition to the comcast newsgroup, I also use astraweb. It's only $15/month for unlimited downloads. Astraweb also has great speeds, good completion rate, and probably around 4-5 day retention time. I've been with Astraweb for close to a month and haven't had any major problems besides maybe a couple 2 hour downtimes here and there.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: MastaTam
Comcast actually has its own newsservers which are fairly decent. Great speeds, great completion rate, and 1-2 days retention time. the address is netnews.comcast.net. You don't need a login name or password. In addition to the comcast newsgroup, I also use astraweb. It's only $15/month for unlimited downloads. Astraweb also has great speeds, good completion rate, and probably around 4-5 day retention time. I've been with Astraweb for close to a month and haven't had any major problems besides maybe a couple 2 hour downtimes here and there.

Damn, that is an awesome price if those retention rates are true.

 

[waylman]

the beauty of easynews is their web site contains every file posted to every Usenet newsgroup in the last 25 days

 

[MustISO]

EasyNews rocks but it's not enough GB's for the money. I use the Comcast giganews for 1GB a month and Giganews 10.5GB for $11.99/mo. Works out pretty well. I tried a bunch of those unlimited services and I found the retention sucked and uptime/speed was iffy. Don't recall if I tried astraweb or not, I think I did.

Wolfsraider, who do you use?

 

[Turkish]

How can I learn if Comcast is planning to bring internet service in my area? When I call their tollfree line, they don't know anything about the subject.

 

[konichiwa]

Go to the website and type in your zip?

 

[MustISO]

I seem to recall them having something on their site that would check your zip code. From there I think you can request information.

 

[Ausm]

I use Astraweb and I suck down about 5-7 gig /day

Ausm

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: ausm
I use Astraweb and I suck down about 5-7 gig /day

Ausm

How is that even possible? I mean.. I know it's possible, but where does all the data go?!

You must have a rackmount 1TB storage center sitting in your closet.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: konichiwa
Go to the website and type in your zip?

Hmmm, well they have an information request form, but I was just curious if any of you already knew anything about this

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: ausm
I use Astraweb and I suck down about 5-7 gig /day

Ausm

thats a lot of porn!

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: ausm
I use Astraweb and I suck down about 5-7 gig /day

Ausm

thats a lot of porn!

Pon for the masses! I burn it to DVD then archive them for future reference since I will never see a real woman wihout clothes.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: konichiwa
Do you use the GigaNews service for NNTP? It has a quota of 1GB per month which is pretty skimpy ...

yeah it ticks me off.

i hate the 1gig limit. wish they had like 3+

 

[JaydenChris]

Yeah I used Giganews when I first signed up for comcast, and 1 Gig goes FAST! I've been using Easynews before I had comcast and 6 Gigs/month is good enough for me.

 

[Eli]

Here are my daily totals for the last few months(since I reinstalled)..


home.comcast.net/~epruett3/dumetertotals.txt

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: Eli
Here are my daily totals for the last few months(since I reinstalled).. home.comcast.net/~epruett3/dumetertotals.txt

sheesh... i'm afraid to post my DU meter totals...

my top 5 days of total up/down?
12.27GB
9.41GB
8.27GB
6.37GB
6.15GB

monthly totals...
Aug - 36gb
Sep - 64gb
Oct - 52gb
Nov - 40gb
Dec - 46gb (so far)

Must be my family screwing around on the computer, I have no idea where all that bandwidth goes

As a former ATTBI customer I think I have unlimited to comcast's news server but i rarely use it