 KCrimsonPremium
join:2001-02-25
Brooklyn, NY
kudos:1
 ·Verizon FiOS
| No Matter Boost or Non-Boost - NNTP access is CHOKED FiOS was just introduced to my area this month. I'm an OOL subscriber on their regular (non-Boost) tier. The speed has been as advertised - about 14.6 mb/s downstream.
Since my triple play package ended a few months ago I've been anxiously awaiting switching to FiOS, and I finally have the appointment set up for Tuesday.
The biggest problem I see with OOL is the near NECESSITY of spending an extra subscription fee to a pay Usenet provider (such as Giganews), due to Cablevision's refusal to spend money maintaining their own Usenet servers and therefore "farming out" their subscribers to an outside provider with access caps to those NNTP connections of 65 kb/sec X 2 connections - pathetic. 
The other MAJOR problem with OOL is exclusive to the tier I'm leaving (the standard tier without Boost). Nobody knows for sure exactly what triggers the cap. The algorithm has never been stated - its a nebulous trigger that has been the topic of debate in the OOL forum on BBR for years. |
