Well today is the day.. I start getting limited!

[Zite83]

I thank everyone for their thoughts and opinions on the subject! Its help me move more toward a middle ground... I've been watching my bandwidth through my router daily.. and I've been sitting around around 2 - 3.5 GBs a day..



Not bad.. that dosn't include any torrent traffic. So I take it watching TV shows all day can load up the numbers.. Anyways so my anger went down abit.. and I am some what normal now.. Well till today.. :P I got rid of alot of my unlimited services.. So I figure well I can't use my newsgroups anymore... So Ill just use Comcast.. they even limit me to 2GBs a month, so that way I don't have to worry about going over my bandwidth. Well it seems Comcast is discontinuing free newsgroup service starting, well, right now for new users. Existing customers will continue to be able to access the service until October 25th, after which, you're on your own.

The compete alert:

The Comcast Newsgroups service, powered by Giganews will be discontinued as of September 17th. Existing customers will continue to be able to access the service until October 25th. This decision is in alignment with other Internet Service Providers that have recently terminated their Newsgroups service due to the declining popularity of Newsgroups as customers chose other methods, such as RSS feeds and web browsing to access information.

Now that boils my blood right there.. The whole reason I switch to giganews was because I was limited to 2GB by Comcast.. Now that I can't download unlimited from them with out being capped by Comcast I figure I just put up with the 2GB limit..(newsgroups are no longer just post and blogs the binaries sections contain lots of stuff to download movies/musics/games/software/porn all at insane speeds "1.5MBs not Mbs!" ) Nope not anymore.. When our cable service was Insight (had this service for 3 years) I only complained about a few disconnects here and there, I payed $34.99 a month for unlimited cable Internet and that also came with unlimited Newsgroups... Now I pay $10.00 more a month for alot less... Monday Verizon gets my call.. Sure I will get 1-6MBs connections, but whats the point of having the fastest service on the block when you will hit a wall at some point.. I also get a discount through Verizon I take it, as i work in their bankruptcy department.... huh... who would of known :P Sorry to throw fuel on the fire :whistling:

[sikerdebaard]

250 GB / week? Totally plausible.

10 GB for a standard 1080p Hi-def movie. 25 movies / week, gotta do something while leveling, right?

Besides, in my country its legal to download from an illegal source.

[Blackguarde]

I thank everyone for their thoughts and opinions on the subject! Its help me move more toward a middle ground... I've been watching my bandwidth through my router daily.. and I've been sitting around around 2 - 3.5 GBs a day..



Not bad.. that dosn't include any torrent traffic. So I take it watching TV shows all day can load up the numbers.. Anyways so my anger went down abit.. and I am some what normal now.. Well till today.. :P I got rid of alot of my unlimited services.. So I figure well I can't use my newsgroups anymore... So Ill just use Comcast.. they even limit me to 2GBs a month, so that way I don't have to worry about going over my bandwidth. Well it seems Comcast is discontinuing free newsgroup service starting, well, right now for new users. Existing customers will continue to be able to access the service until October 25th, after which, you're on your own.

The compete alert:

The Comcast Newsgroups service, powered by Giganews will be discontinued as of September 17th. Existing customers will continue to be able to access the service until October 25th. This decision is in alignment with other Internet Service Providers that have recently terminated their Newsgroups service due to the declining popularity of Newsgroups as customers chose other methods, such as RSS feeds and web browsing to access information.

Now that boils my blood right there.. The whole reason I switch to giganews was because I was limited to 2GB by Comcast.. Now that I can't download unlimited from them with out being capped by Comcast I figure I just put up with the 2GB limit..(newsgroups are no longer just post and blogs the binaries sections contain lots of stuff to download movies/musics/games/software/porn all at insane speeds "1.5MBs not Mbs!" ) Nope not anymore.. When our cable service was Insight (had this service for 3 years) I only complained about a few disconnects here and there, I payed $34.99 a month for unlimited cable Internet and that also came with unlimited Newsgroups... Now I pay $10.00 more a month for alot less... Monday Verizon gets my call.. Sure I will get 1-6MBs connections, but whats the point of having the fastest service on the block when you will hit a wall at some point.. I also get a discount through Verizon I take it, as i work in their bankruptcy department.... huh... who would of known :P Sorry to throw fuel on the fire :whistling:

So you are going to save yourself $10 a month ($120 a year) by paying installation/startup fees to move to another company?

[thinus]

250 GB / week? Totally plausible.

10 GB for a standard 1080p Hi-def movie. 25 movies / week, gotta do something while leveling, right?

Besides, in my country its legal to download from an illegal source.

I highly doubt that it is legal in your country to download illegal copyrighted material.

[Zub]

I highly doubt that it is legal in your country to download illegal copyrighted material.

legal or not legal, it's probably not appropriate

[Zseth]

So you are going to save yourself $10 a month ($120 a year) by paying installation/startup fees to move to another company?

Who is this guy and why is he on our forums?



He seems to be just another Comcast rep trying to defend an inferior service that has no desire nor inclination to improve.



I hate forum trolls for companies, frankly, if you don't stop trying to sell your wares on a forum dedicated to expressing views I feel an IP ban coming. Also, by stating what you have said and citing you are a comcast employee, and without clearly stating your views don't represent the company you are holding the company liable for everything you say. Frankly, I find Comcast's business practices loathing and am glad to be on an ISP not owned by them.



Also, he seems about as close to a multiboxer as I am to being a hippie.



Silence the fool.

[Physics101]

So you are going to save yourself $10 a month ($120 a year) by paying installation/startup fees to move to another company?

Hang on, your giving someone grief for saving 120 a month?! Oh and not all companies have startup fees.

[Blackguarde]

So you are going to save yourself $10 a month ($120 a year) by paying installation/startup fees to move to another company?

Who is this guy and why is he on our forums?



He seems to be just another Comcast rep trying to defend an inferior service that has no desire nor inclination to improve.



I hate forum trolls for companies, frankly, if you don't stop trying to sell your wares on a forum dedicated to expressing views I feel an IP ban coming. Also, by stating what you have said and citing you are a comcast employee, and without clearly stating your views don't represent the company you are holding the company liable for everything you say. Frankly, I find Comcast's business practices loathing and am glad to be on an ISP not owned by them.



Also, he seems about as close to a multiboxer as I am to being a hippie.



Silence the fool.

Heaven forbid an employee show loyalty to their company. Guess what? Ive had zero problems with my cable/internet/phone for the entire time Ive had Comcast as a customer and as an employee. Maybe I just get tired of you people trying to generalize my company as bad guys, when alot of the complaints in this thread are BASELESS WHINING. And "lol" at you pulling the "liability" card because Im voicing my opinion as a person, who just happens to work for Comcast.

Every complaint in this thread revolving around Comcast has been dispelled by simple logic and facts.

And then trying to claim I shouldn't be here, or even have an opinion on the matter, stating Im not even a multiboxer? An IP ban? Get over yourself.

Hang on, your giving someone grief for saving 120 a month?! Oh and not all companies have startup fees.

$120 for an entire year, to go through the hassle of exchanging services, possible start-up fees, a slower connection and all in name of 250gb limit a month. Im saying this as a person, not a company rep, that that is the most retarded thing ever.


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Edit: And for the record, the GB limit cap has ALWAYS been in place with Comcast, its just been made public. If you havent gotten a notice before Oct 1st about bandwidth consumption, you probably wont now either! rofl

[Physics101]

$120 for an entire year, to go through the hassle of exchanging services, possible start-up fees, a slower connection and all in name of 250gb limit a month. Im saying this as a person, not a company rep, that that is the most retarded thing ever.

What you just said is that you expect isps to give you problems when your getting signed up with them, that's actually kinda funny seeing how you work for one.

Gosh when I switched my new isp bent over backwards for me. I went from ATT dsl to timewarner cable roadrunner. All I had to do was stop by the RR office and pick up a modem, they activated everything else remotely. As for the hassle of returning the dsl box to ATT, they sent me a box to mail it back. Total time maybe two hours if you include all the post service surveys and crap ATT called me about. My time is well worth 60 dollars an hour in this case. (as for my actual savings, it was a bit less but my dsl service really really sucked but was cheap)

As for him downgrading to a slower connection even though he'd probably never hit the cap, well that's all about piece of mind. A lot of people don't like having to monitor their bandwidth, just like tons of people pay for unlimited cell phone minutes when they probably never hit their cap before. It's all about not wanting to have to police your time/bandwidth at all, and just not having to worry about it. So this caping existing before it was announced to customers doesn't mean diddly, out of sight out of mind. Now it's in mind and I'm pretty sure it bothers a lot of people that would never be able to hit it anyway.

Oh and as for a legitimate use of hitting 250gb a month, I've hit that before. I design images for many different lines of computers where I work, so pulling down 10-30 gig image on test machines at home to test new software, or new user policies, isn't uncommon. Telecommuting for me wouldn't be possible if the unlimited service I was paying for wasn't unlimited.

[Blackguarde]

Oh and as for a legitimate use of hitting 250gb a month, I've hit that before. I design images for many different lines of computers where I work, so pulling down 10-30 gig image on test machines at home to test new software, or new user policies, isn't uncommon. Telecommuting for me wouldn't be possible if the unlimited service I was paying for wasn't unlimited.

Then you are using a residential account for commercial use. That is not a legitimate use. Commercial accounts do not have limits.

As already stated, the limit has ALWAYS been place, its just been made public. You guys are fretting over something thats been there all along. Tin foil hats anyone?

edit: And before someone trys to pull the "why do commercial accounts get it better than us?" routine, use the same principals as someone buying a 1st class ticket for an airplane. You want the perks? You got to pay for them, this isnt something Comcast invented.