Bellundo
@teksavvy.com
| Usenet is as strong as ever
Usenet has never been stronger. Why the demand is so great you may see the pay services such as giganews raising their rates. If not for the sorry state of the US economy they would have raised them by now. Getting back to RCN yes it's a sad day for subscribers and RCN is completly to blame. It just doesn't seem right cutting off an essential service without a plausible explanation. The line about this kiddy porn bit is getting old fast. These isp's have duped their subscribers out of a much needed service and most of them haven't reduced their rates. Sinister that's what it is! |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC | raise rates $30 a month?
Is that accurate? How and what did they increase by $30? |
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bandwidthhog
join:2002-07-18
Irwin, PA
1 edit | RCN - Not an ISP I'd Ever Go With...
My father had telephone and dialup service with RCN. Recently he switched his RCN dialup access to RCN DSL broadband. The appointment was on the Friday before Labor Day. The installer showed up, looked at the box outside for 5 minutes, said he didn't have the proper equipment for the install. The equipment he was missing was a drill. He reschedules the appointment for the following Tuesday. Over the weekend my fathers telephone service goes out and no one at RCN could apparently restore it until the installer shows up on Tuesday. Tuesday comes, a different installer shows and it's his first day on the job! He has as no idea how to proceed to install the DSL without a dial tone being present. Long story to short, after the installer spends 5 hours onsite and a 3 day weekend where my 90 year old father and his wife were without telephone service, my father finally has DSL. No offer of compensation from RCN and no appology. Truly an ISP to stay away from based on my fathers experience with them. |
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Simba7
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | No newsgroups?
Why would you cancel newsgroups? I'd be ticked if my ISP pulled this.
Oh wait.. The less news you get, the less of a threat you are. It's a darn conspiracy. |
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major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
Premium
join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA
clubs:
| reply to bandwidthhog
Re: RCN - Not an ISP I'd Ever Go With...
said by bandwidthhog  : Truly an ISP to stay away from based on my fathers experience with them. Notwithstanding cutting off newsgroup service without notice, the fact that your father lives in bumblefuck Pennsylvania probably goes a long long way that the first tech showed up without a drill and the second was a n00b. Long ago I lived in bumblefuck PA as well and every single local representing a large company like RCN was an ignorant hillbilly.
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frankenfeet
Premium
join:2001-10-14
Smiths Grove, KY
 ·Insight VOIP
 ·Insight Communicat..
| reply to Simba7
Re: No newsgroups?
said by Simba7 :Why would you cancel newsgroups? I'd be ticked if my ISP pulled this. Oh wait.. The less news you get, the less of a threat you are. It's a darn conspiracy. Yeah, news. That's what people are downloading. LOL
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
1 edit | reply to bandwidthhog
Re: RCN - Not an ISP I'd Ever Go With...
quote:
Recently he switched his RCN dialup access to RCN DSL broadband.
RCN DSL? |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | reply to bandwidthhog
I had dial up with Erols Internet. It was the best service I ever had. As soon as RCN/Starpower bought them, the service became crap, the rates increased and I dumped them. |
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Chiyo
Save Me Konata-Chan
Premium
join:2003-02-20
Minneapolis, MN
clubs: | reply to frankenfeet
Re: No newsgroups?
I enjoy my 4.7GB packets of news.. Umm its very, very, very good looking version of the Wall Street Journal  |
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Attack Gypsy
join:2007-05-10
Bridgeport, CT
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·Optimum Online
| Newsgroups
People say newsgroups are stronger than ever. I disagree.
I used to work for a large cable service. In the year and a half I was there, I got exactly 2 newsgroups calls, and they were both about outages.
2 calls compared to over 20,000 calls taken? If newsgroups are so popular, the law of averages doesn't seem to working here.
I had other associates who had never fielded a single newsgroups call.
(This is not a newsgroups bash, I love them myself.) |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
| said by Attack Gypsy :I used to work for a large cable service. In the year and a half I was there, I got exactly 2 newsgroups calls, and they were both about outages. Might it be possible that USENET users are a bit more technically savvy than your typical web surfer? It generally requires a bit of technical competence to set up your reader since most ISP's don't even document the process. |
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Extreme2KEclipse
@rocassociates.com | reply to Attack Gypsy
Or that they were just so darn reliable? |
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kd6cae
P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Lancaster, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| What happens to the news server systems?
For about a year I was on the Cox network, and I downloaded headers from their news server which was on network, to check how my line speed was doing. What I'm curious to know is when these ISP's discontinue offering their own in house news server, what happens to the hardware use to run the servers? I'm also curious how many distinct and separate usenet networks there are now, since most if not all ISP's don't run a news server at all anymore, and many usenet providers are merely resellers of the big guys like Giganews. Just something I've wondered about. The concept of how usenet works is quite neat I think.b |
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Attack Gypsy
join:2007-05-10
Bridgeport, CT | reply to n2jtx
Re: Newsgroups
Believe me, not these people. Our users were some of the stupidest people in the whole bloody world. Trust me on that. |
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bandwidthhog
join:2002-07-18
Irwin, PA | reply to major marco
Re: RCN - Not an ISP I'd Ever Go With...
Actually my father lives in Silver Spring a northern Maryland suburb of Washington DC. |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
1 edit | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode : quote:
Recently he switched his RCN dialup access to RCN DSL broadband.
RCN DSL? I tried to figure that out myself... I eventually gave up.  |
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jbgroup1
Dolemite
Premium
join:2000-05-04
Beltsville, MD
·Verizon FIOS
·Vonage
1 edit | reply to bandwidthhog
said by bandwidthhog : ...Silver Spring a northern Maryland suburb of Washington DC. A central Marylnd Suburb north of Washington, DC. |
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jbgroup1
Dolemite
Premium
join:2000-05-04
Beltsville, MD
·Verizon FIOS
·Vonage
| reply to moonpuppy
I had Erol's dial-up right before I had broadband internet. They also had a video rental store chain in the Washington, DC area. Unfortunately it was ruined while they waited for Blockbuster to buy them out but it never happened. After that they went under. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by jbgroup1 :I had Erol's dial-up right before I had broadband internet. They also had a video rental store chain in the Washington, DC area. Unfortunately it was ruined while they waited for Blockbuster to buy them out but it never happened. After that they went under. Huh? Erols was bought out by Blockbuster. Blockbuster paid so much that they had no money left over to convert the stores so they did it one by one. |
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Kooly
@rcn.com | reply to jbgroup1
I too had Erols, and I'm still with RCN. Who's the alternative in DC, Comcast? |
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