Topic 'Question about Newsgroup Access' in forum 'Mediacom' - dslreports.com

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:21:08 EDT

Clever Name posted : Looks right at its mouth.

Better than nothing, which goes without saying. But there you go.

Only the mentally deficient would use torrents now.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:53:30 EDT

danawhitaker posted : Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. 5mbit newsgroup access is better than no newsgroup access at all, and is at least consistent transfer speed without being attached to a torrent.
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Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:41:51 EDT

Clever Name posted : ^^^^You're using netnews.mchsi.com I assume. If it's not working try a different news client then bother mediacom chad perhaps.

200 day old posts were failing. I only tried 2 or 3. Might depend on the group, but I'm not going to bother testing further. 5mbits, ugh. No encryption AND connected to mediacom, ugh.

Hopefully for your sake you got some special deal with giganews Boss, their regular price is a joke. Supernews, astraweb, etc are a much better value with nearly the same retention.

Giganews - 1457 days.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:39:10 EDT

RyanThaDude posted : I decided to give these servers a try but if I'm not suppose to use a login/password why is it failing with a "480 authentication required" error?

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:19:00 EDT

Boss302_1970 posted : giganews retention is well over 2 years and maybe even 3 now, so id say your correct on that.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:02:31 EDT

Hobo Clown posted :

said by Clever Name:

What's the server address? I haven't used their severs for years.

ed - »mediacomcable.com/CustomerSuppor···c=1206.0

~5 megabits download, 6 connections max, around 200 days retention. Doesn't seem to be filtered much. Thanks but no thanks.

I have downloaded things this week that were over a year old and it worked just fine so I think you are wrong about the retention.
Last week I downloaded 150 GB so there seems to be no limit so far.
I will take it for free.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:27:53 EDT

danawhitaker posted : You don't need to use a login name.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:59:18 EDT

elios posted : whats the log in same as your mediacom email?

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:26:38 EDT

Clever Name posted : What's the server address? I haven't used their severs for years.

ed - »mediacomcable.com/CustomerSuppor···c=1206.0

~5 megabits download, 6 connections max, around 200 days retention. Doesn't seem to be filtered much. Thanks but no thanks.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:37:21 EDT

beachintech posted : There aren't. I had mediacom for years and would regularly pull down 500 gigs + a month
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Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:43:57 EDT

Hobo Clown posted : Well, Boss I am am not going to count them but there is a bunch including alt.binaries.

I guess I will test the waters to see if there is a monthly download limit I have downloaded 25 gigs of Linux ISO's so far.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:24:06 EDT

Boss302_1970 posted : I can tell you a "real" giganews account has over 100k groups. I have used it for years. Hobo Clown hope that helps you , if you see close to that many groups then your in good shape

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:28:21 EDT

Hobo Clown posted : I have been playing with it since yesterday and have pulled down 20 gigs worth of stuff that you claim is filtered out.
So I am pretty sure you have no idea what you are talking about.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:53:02 EDT

elios posted : a real Giganews account yes but not the mediacom one
mediacom has all the binary groups filtered out

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:41:53 EDT

Boss302_1970 posted : I know before long ago when mediacom had their own news server retention was 24 hours. I can't speak for the service they provide through giganews but Im sure its limited by a certain amount of gigs you can get per month. Id PM MediacomChad, I'm sure he can get the info you need

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:57:00 EDT

mccollumr posted :

said by elios:

the binary groups are HEAVILY filtered its pretty worth less and most other groups are spammed to death now

if you want good usenet service youll have pay for it your self sadly

Giganews does not throttle and the number of connections depends on the plan you subscribe to. I regularly get 17Mbs, although I'm on Comcast.

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:52:31 EDT

Hobo Clown posted : You are just not looking in the right groups I seem to be limited to 5 connections and throttled to between 5-6 Mbs

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:30:25 EDT

elios posted : the binary groups are HEAVILY filtered its pretty worth less and most other groups are spammed to death now

if you want good usenet service youll have pay for it your self sadly

Re: Question about Newsgroup Access

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:54:18 EDT

beachintech posted : No official limits, and you aren't really throttled any slower than your provisioned HSI speeds and server you are connecting to.
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Question about Newsgroup Access

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:12:38 EDT

Hobo Clown posted : I just found out that Mediacom gives us access to Newsgroups through Giganews.
Does anyone know what the limits are such as how may connections we are allowed is there a download limit on Binaries? Are we throttled on speeds?