US Cable Support > Comcast HSI > "monthly bandwidth limits"!?!?

"monthly bandwidth limits"!?!?

I have never heard of this in 5 years with them. I'v heard of them calling people to curtail their usage

reply to binary_boy
Comcast gives you 2GB per month through Giganews.
You can signup with whatever Newsgroup you want, but you get to pay for it.
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reply to binary_boy
Why don't you just creat a second email account with Comcast from their website, make that account the primary account and then you will get a fresh 2GB of bandwidth. It works.
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reply to binary_boy
why not just subscribe to a real nntp service....

reply to binary_boy
The only way to get unlimited service is to subscribe to a 3rd party like Giganews or similar NNTP vendor.

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reply to GilbertMark

And why would you want them to "close this loophole?" Matter of fact this so called "loophole" was first mentioned from a CSR/TSR from Comcast suggesting to a subscriber how to do it.

reply to b1gdr3
that no response thing should have clued you in. perhaps mind your own business next time?

Actually - Comcast only allows NNTP access on the primary account. You wil get an Access denied using any other created account. it has been that way since at least Dec 05.

Not according to this thread

»[Newsgroups] use up ur monthly 2gb limit? try this!

reply to binary_boy
Actually, what he says is correct.

If the primary email account has used its 2GB limit, then entering another Comcast email account/password as the new login in your newsreader will not register.

You would have to set this new email account to be the primary one.

(ok, I think we've covered this subject enough on this forum )

reply to rhexis

You actually contacted the executive branch on this?

Can I inquire as to why? Why take the effort on that? I can see if your getting bad service, but why something that doesn't affect you?

reply to binary_boy
I believe these complaints are falling on deaf ears.

Most Comcast customers are not DSLR members and do not know (or probably care) about this Newsgroup issue.

Heck, I doubt if even half of Comcast customers use newsgroups.

Comcast has so many billions, I doubt this newsgroup "extra usage" is going to break their bank.

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.

reply to jjsk8r85