voodoodaddy
@comcast.net | reply to djdanska
Re: Insight --> Comcast: I cant get on newsgroups anymore
2gb a month?? Thats not per day or per 2-3 day period? I thought 3gb/3day was pretty restrictive with insight. But 2gb per month is pretty much a joke. |
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newview
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| said by voodoodaddy :
But 2gb per month is pretty much a joke.
. . . and the REALLY funny part is that they doubled it from 1gb some time ago. And . . . when Comcast originally took over from @home a looong time ago, they were going to DROP newsgroups entirely. Only when a subscriber backlash resulted did they initially setup the 1gb Giganews access.
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NormanS
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I believe that restriction is largely based on what Giganews will supply for the fee Comcast must be paying them for access. Comcast is outsourcing to Giganews, and Giganews is a fee-based provider. They (Giganews) don't want to compete with themselves; i.e., if you want more download, they want you to pay for it.
»www.giganews.com/
As it is, you appear to be getting the Giganews $7.99 plan for no extra cost on your Comcast account. Seems like a pretty good deal, considering Comcast is not required to provide NNTP service at all, and was going to drop it at one time.
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