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Comcast users...

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.
 
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.
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Damn, that is an awesome price if those retention rates are true.
 
the beauty of easynews is their web site contains every file posted to every Usenet newsgroup in the last 25 days
 
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?
 
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.
 
I seem to recall them having something on their site that would check your zip code. From there I think you can request information.
 
Originally posted by: ausm
I use Astraweb and I suck down about 5-7 gig /day 😀

Ausm
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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. 😛
 
Originally posted by: konichiwa
Go to the website and type in your zip?
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Hmmm, well they have an information request form, but I was just curious if any of you already knew anything about this 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: ausm
I use Astraweb and I suck down about 5-7 gig /day 😀

Ausm
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thats a lot of porn!
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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.
 
Originally posted by: konichiwa
Do you use the GigaNews service for NNTP? It has a quota of 1GB per month which is pretty skimpy ... 🙁
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yeah it ticks me off.

i hate the 1gig limit. wish they had like 3+
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Here are my daily totals for the last few months(since I reinstalled).. home.comcast.net/~epruett3/dumetertotals.txt
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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
 
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