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

[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?