comcast & Gignanews NewsGroup info

[Mr Evil]

I signed up for the free 1 gig service just to see what it was. Heres what I got back from comcast.


If you reach your 1 gigabyte download limit before the end of the month,
your account will become inactive until your monthly renewal date. You
will be notified by e-mail when you have reached 75% of your 1 gigabyte
monthly download allowance. If you exceed 1 gigabyte during a given
download, the excess amount will be debited from your next month.

Your Giganews Comcast account has a 2 gigabyte per month posting
limit. If you exceed this limit, posting will be disabled for the
remainder of the month. Newsgroups reading will not be affected.

[Tiny Tim]

does comcast give you a gigabit newsgroup account? comcast has their own servers with unlimited downloads. 1 gig on newsgroups for a month is not very much.

[evil jose]

What a bunch of BS! Disable your account? Fuck that!

[mikeb]

Originally posted by Tiny Tim
does comcast give you a gigabit newsgroup account? comcast has their own servers with unlimited downloads. 1 gig on newsgroups for a month is not very much.

Not anymore. Comcast's newsgroups are now hosted by giganews. I expect that comcast's contract with giganews is based on the 1gb/month max per customer.

The number, quality & retention of the articles on the groups is much improved over the old comcast servers but the download limit sucks.

[Tiny Tim]

when did all of this happen??

[HiTechRedneck]

EasyNews (http://www.easynews.com)

[Tiny Tim]

i dunno about that. i hit the hell out of comcasts server w/ unlimited downloads. i think there is an option for you to use giganews' servers.

i think that there are two servers.

netnews.comcast.net

netnews.comcast.giganews.net

the first is unlimited downloads but limited retention..

[kiLLj0y]

1GB? That would last me about an hour! :(

[mikeb]

Originally posted by Tiny Tim
i dunno about that. i hit the hell out of comcasts server w/ unlimited downloads. i think there is an option for you to use giganews' servers.

i think that there are two servers.

netnews.comcast.net

netnews.comcast.giganews.net

the first is unlimited downloads but limited retention..

Yup, you're right. My earthlink account's new servers went away/changed as I described and for some reason I was thinking it was the comcast servers that had changed.

[Hunt4m3x]

HAHAH ALL YOU BITCHES GOT FUCKED OVER BY COMCAST :P

i use the services that they gave us. Netnews.comcast.net. Then i have Airnews and Teranews for backups. I mainly use groups for my DVDRS cuz I get Really fast speed and great posts :)

[Tiny Tim]

Originally posted by Hunt4m3x
HAHAH ALL YOU BITCHES GOT FUCKED OVER BY COMCAST :P

i use the services that they gave us. Netnews.comcast.net. Then i have Airnews and Teranews for backups. I mainly use groups for my DVDRS cuz I get Really fast speed and great posts :)

how did we get fucked over? you mean earthlink right? I have no problem w/ comcast's servers. I use the same newsgroup as you do w/ unlimited d/l and very high speed.

[Hunt4m3x]

Originally posted by Tiny Tim
how did we get fucked over? you mean earthlink right? I have no problem w/ comcast's servers. I use the same newsgroup as you do w/ unlimited d/l and very high speed.

No because alot of people only had the giga choice.

[Tiny Tim]

Originally posted by Hunt4m3x
No because alot of people only had the giga choice.

really? that sux. i hate d/l limits. one gig a month is horrible.