robie88
join:2003-04-19
New York, NY
| reply to trojan
Re: Newsgroup caps at 1.5 gig + no newstest2 (Long)
Where are you getting this "per email account" from? That isn't what the Earthlink page says. Just because you can check your usage by the email account does not mean that Earthlink is not computing the usage on the basis of your IP address, or the sum total of your different email addresses coming from the same IP.
Why are you spreading this around when it isn't what the Earthlink site says? Do you have some real information? Do you know of someone that reached the 1.5 gb quota on one email account, and then used another email account with no loss of speed? |
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pissoff
@mindspring.com
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Whoopee 12gigs, 1.5 per account. What a hassle. They advertised unlimited not 1.5 per account total of 12+gigs.
What Dandelion said is very true. Though you guys don't use the newsgroups, you think that this problem, we have here do not pertain to you at all, well you’re wrong! If they start with us newsgroup users, by limiting speed and download caps, and win. Wait and see what upper management schemes up to save the company money on the general expenses of the customers! They might raise prices; over exert a line by putting more people on it, charge extra for multiply connection (Home LAN) on a “single connection” line, throttle/limit bandwidth during primetime and many other things.
If you’re in an area that you can not switch to another type of broadband service, then you are the most SCREWED! If you give them an inch they will take a foot! |
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joshuad156
join:2003-06-10
Englewood, OH
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Minitech
lots of you think this sucks. while it is cumbersome to work with, its not impossible.
the cap is per email on each account and they dont keep track of downloading to the minute. I have downloaded as much as 9 Gb before being capped. its seems that they total up your d/ling once a day or so. so i do all my d/ling in a day. then a few days later use another email accoutn and d/l another coupld of Gigs. not that bad, VERY FAST AND GOOD RETENTION.
well done earthlink. i just hope they dont change their minds and fix this. |
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shadowgerm
join:2001-03-07
Rego Park, NY | reply to Minitech
Anyone know if this limit is per email account or on all accounts? |
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joshuad156
join:2003-06-10
Englewood, OH | reply to Minitech
read my above post. PER EMAIL ACCOUNT. and its not up to the minute on tracking your usage. I was able to download for some 12 hours before I got capped. Just hope this is the way its supposed to be and not a fluke! |
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hok
join:2002-02-27
|  reply to shadowgerm
said by shadowgerm  :
Anyone know if this limit is per email account or on all accounts?
Starting July 2003, Usenet/Newsgroup download has 1.5 GB bit cap per e-mail address used to log onto news server(s) for the past 30 days period. Once the bit cap is reached at the time of daily updating total, then the Usenet/Newsgroup download speed by the same log in e-mail address used will be throttled to 64 kbps. Users can easily delete and add e-mail addresses via Email Maintenance in My Account.
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gm613
join:2002-01-16
Forest Hills, NY
| You know what? When I first heard of this, I did not like it at all. They are going to place a cap with no easy way for us to figure out what my caps were. I know I download about 1GB a day at times average. Also, there were these other annoying things that was happen. Like offering new customers 1/2 price for the next 6 months.
Well, I just discovered a new option in the NY area. They are a place called NYCT.com (New York Connect is the company name). I may switch over to them. Very Very Soon.
[text was edited by author 2003-08-04 16:46:04] |
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