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join:2002-11-21
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Re: "monthly bandwidth limits"!?!? www.newshostings.com
Stop looking for "loop holes" and just pay your $15.00 a month for unlimited account. 
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Richmond, VA | I use Usenet Server (www.usenetserver.com) am on the 3 month plan, and have no complaints at all on retention/speed. Sign up, stop using loopholes.
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| Heavens forbid if anyone used a loophole to download more than 2GB from the newsgroups ::rollseyes:: Wow 2GB, try finding a brand new 2GB hard drive nowadays with a warranty.
In my opinion, Comcast should either offer a half decent account to giganews or not offer the service at all, if one is only using non binaries groups to post and download, there are enough freebies out there to do text only posts.
As for upgrading to unlimited or high limit newsgroup service from a 3rd party, sure you can pay for Giganews unlimited at $25 a month, but just try using it, before you know it, Comcast will be terminating your service for abuse of service.
and yes, we do have users "well good riddance" That's just brainwashing at it's best. The cable provider has successfully brainwashed you into thinking higher usage users affect you, when it fact it's their fault for not willing to spend one cent upgrading their network.
Drove down a secondary road today...found three Comcast boxes with splitters and cables exposed to the weather because the box was either run over or the cover was missing. 0_o |
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 b1gdr3I Blame Your Mother
join:2001-07-28
York, PA | said by acrufox:The cable provider has successfully brainwashed you into thinking higher usage users affect you, when it fact it's their fault for not willing to spend one cent upgrading their network. People that use 600+ gigs a month ARE affecting other users, it's not brainwashing. Cable is a shared technology, so if folks are leeching all day every day, there are users being affected.
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| Yeah but nobody has really confirmed that 600GB limit. I was on Comcast HSI and received a letter just under 3 years ago for 100GB a month, back then everyone was "OMG he's doing over 100GB a month, I hardly break 40GB"
Nowadays 100GB is commonplace, even 200 and sometimes 300GB. 600GB is a lot for one user BUT in the other hand. Have a large family, computers are a dime a dozen nowadays. Have 2-3 teenagers downloading off the internet, or have more than streaming music, videos, hey even legit paid for streaming media.
It doesn't take long to add up. Cable is a shared technology yes, but that doesn't mean that the company has to do everything underhandedly.
I could download 600GB on Verizon and they wouldn't care. I just don't like what I see with Comcast nowadays, trying to put a halt or slow down Verizon so they will waste money or give up.
I'm seeing more and more "slowdowns" on this forum in high population areas, this is proof positive that Comcast rather cherry pick off what they label as abusers than investing in expanding their network. |
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b1gdr3I Blame Your Mother
join:2001-07-28
York, PA | said by acrufox:I'm seeing more and more "slowdowns" on this forum in high population areas, this is proof positive that Comcast rather cherry pick off what they label as abusers than investing in expanding their network. Talking about cherrypicking...how about how VZ cherrypicking where they are going to deploy FIOS? Comcast provides a more than adequate connection and is a good value for the price. If they don't want bandwidth hogs on their network, I'm behind them 10000000%.
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| VZ cherry picks by choosing the easiest areas to deploy. Our city welcomed Verizon FiOS with open arms and Comcast didn't put up a fight or attempted to slow them down.
Right now they are changing the way they deliver FiOS to the home in terms of them also trying to offer FiOS over coax instead of Cat 5 and test bedding that equipment here.
Some people whined and complained that only rich areas got FiOS first. Well just into the first full year since they started deploying and made their announcements, I had FiOS 6 months in and by no means is our subdivision even remotely considered "rich and poshy" in fact deployment halted just past the intersection down the road where the rich people live and only now they are laying the PVC and marking off the lines on the ground.
People who cannot get FiOS, including those areas that paid big $$$ and got nothing out of it, Verizon will be cherry picking until they can streamline their deployment to be cheap.
I don't like how Comcast handled my issue. I didn't get any RIAA letters, or copy-written material warnings. They couldn't nail me for anything so what do they do? They sent those stupid "you're the top 3% stop it" I got, as I mentioned many times" two letters a week apart for two months abuse. I called in and complained about that and they blamed the "Christmas rush" and they wouldn't do anything about it, even when I told them both letters were post dated a week apart.
Comcast then told me to switch to a business account, and at the time I could afford it, so I was transferred to their business dept. I was promptly told unless I had a legitimate business and was in an area zoned for business they could not sell me a business account and bounced me back to tech support.
So in short, us "abusers" who are willing to shell out more $$$ to Comcast so we can download more, are unable to do so, or have some uninformed Comcast employee tell them to upgrade to "pro" or some other tier that's $20 to $50 more and that invisible limit is still there.
When you are willing to work with the company and the company isn't, then you're not an abuser. You're simply a person Comcast won't make much of a profit off of.
I even asked to be downgraded to 1.5 service so I could download as much as I wanted and they said no.
I wouldn't be behind them 10000000% when "abusers" who download legitimate material like myself cannot even work with them. |
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Carrollton, TX | said by acrufox:Right now they are changing the way they deliver FiOS to the home in terms of them also trying to offer FiOS over coax instead of Cat 5 and test bedding that equipment here. More correctly they are changing the way they deliver FiOS in the home. The fiber still goes to an ONT on the outside of the house as before. However, they are looking at the option of using MoCA over existing coax internally instead of running new Cat 5 in installations where this would make sense. |
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said by acrufox:Comcast puts those limits in place not just for downloading illegal material but imagine just imagine if all those Comcast users found out NNTP=Easy access to Porn. Now saying this from an adults perspective, after all I'm almost 30 LOL. If you planted the seed of limitless porn sorted into groups by content, you would have even the most clueless of Comcast users downloading gigs and gigs of nothing but porn. They put the limits on so they can quash the idea of downloading porn with no effort. I've seen enough computers over the years to realize many...many, especially men who use the computer the most, download porn or subscribe to it like no tomorrow. Trust me most Comcast customers would know what newsgroups were if they were told they could download as much as they wanted of porn. Just over a year ago I was actually asked by a Comcast customer where the best place to get porn for free without using P2P/torrents. I said the newsgroups, he gave me that blank stare of "whaaa" After I explained he wanted to know how. I told him to google it and sent him on his way LOL Soon after he came back saying the service was great but he said after a couple days he couldn't download anymore. I told him he reached the limit for the month. Next thing I knew he was asking me how he could get unlimited. I told him about paying giganews $25/mo to get all he wanted or switch to Verizon which at times was slow but had no limits. At the time the choice between Comcast+Giganews at $85 a month. Or lose some download speed and not pay for newsgroups at 3.0 speeds at $35 a month. You can guess which one he chose LOL Have to be honest on issues like this, everyone goes around acting normal and porn on newsgroups? Yes there are people that would go to great lengths to get it. Porn makes the world go round LOL As for reporting to Comcast the workaround, oy you have too much time on your hands :P Comcast's teacher's pet. Saying that it will affect the level of service to other users? That's just downright stupid. I'm on Verizon FiOS, I can subscribe to giganews myself and download all I wanted. Comcast doesn't have their own news server. Stop and think for a moment, telling Comcast serves no purpose to you or anyone else using this workaround. It's giganews, they provide service to anyone, including desperate dialup users. You tooting the horn doesn't make you look like a savior to users that use giganews. It just puts you in the spotlight as someone looking for attention. Even if every one of Comcast NNTP users used this workaround, they wouldn't need you to report it to them. They would notice it themselves and take care of it. Then everyone will know who to blame when the workaround no longer works. I have to say it, 2GB on NNTP is lame. Those who do use it know that 2GB just in header downloads on popular newsgroups can eat into a good chunk of that monthly 2GB. So just because you want people to stop watching porn they should not use their computer or bandwidth to watch porn?
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| Naaah not quite, people can download porn all they want, it's just that Comcast offers such a low limit via a 3rd party provider so all they want equals out to a measly 2GB. So by doing so and putting such a low limit, most Comcast customers don't even know what NNTP is.
In the other hand, say one got themselves a 3rd party unlimited newsgroups account and downloaded a ton of porn, they would hit Comcast's bandwidth abuse limits very quickly. heh
A no win-win situation :P |
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1 edit | Re: "monthly bandwidth limits"!?!? Actually I download and test Microsoft operating systems, including the heaping pile called Vista and Longhorn server. When images are 2.8GB a piece or higher and you have 32 bit and 64 bit versions to download of both Vista and Server. One can easily go through bandwidth like no tomorrow. I also am on some game beta tests non MS related. Yes it's all voluntary, you do get some perks as a hobby
Actually...I'm the person that gets called out on many occasion or have a PC dropped off to have it looked at, both on/off the job. Porn is all I ever come across....I don't have to obsess about it. I'm just stating the fact that users that do have large stashes of the stuff usually have a newsreader installed. With Comcast customers it's always pictures, with Verizon DSL it's always porn flicks and pictures.
It's interesting actually, always get to work and the first thing I notice when the complaint is "why is my PC so slow" It's usually because their drive is full to the brim with the stuff. One doesn't have to do any digging to find the stuff either. Hmmm 1 GB free on a 60GB drive. Even the ever professed devout Christians collect the stuff. Only a few times did I ever not find a porn collection of some sort, usually the person was on dialup. heh.
When I was referring to porn, I was referring to the general public. The whole 2GB limit on the NG's and invisible caps per month. I'm just putting 2+2 together. 1)Comcast outsources its NNTP and gets a 2GB limit to appease those who use the NG's for ole fashioned posting. 2) If Comcast had their own NNTP or unlimited giganews their network would have a heart attack if they offered such things. It would spread like wildfire, OMG I can get binaries of anything!
Proof positive are the customers when I tell them or they drop in, to either buy a DVD burner or get a larger hard drive because their NG activity is eating up all their disk space.
Just because one brings up a subject doesn't always mean that they also do that. If I needed a fix for porn I know where the adult video store is ::rollseyes::
After all this thread was about limits via Comcast was it not? I'm just expounding upon the subject because I come across this stuff almost on a DAILY basis. There are reasons Comcast puts limits on things and that's why. We don't have saturated areas in the country "time of day" issues for nothing.
I don't need a T1, after working out the connectivity issues, I'm happy right where I am now, T-1's...ugh why are we still using the T1 comparison? I had the speeds and unlimited use of a T-1 when I was on 1.5 Megabit DSL. Need to compare it to something faster than a T1 :P |
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