Comcast - and other ISP - monthly usage limits

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From: "Paul Montgomery" <[email protected]>

| For anyone whose ISP limits monthly usage - Comcast starts limiting
| users to 250G on Oct. 1 - check out this neat freebie:

| http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=bitmeter2

| It only uses about 7K of your resources to run and it can even be
| configured to give you a warning at a configurable point before you
| reach that limit.

The REAL story happne in one month.

Comcast DROPS providing all Usenet.
http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/?cookieattempt=1
 
From: "Paul Montgomery" <[email protected]>

| For anyone whose ISP limits monthly usage - Comcast starts limiting
| users to 250G on Oct. 1 - check out this neat freebie:

| http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=bitmeter2

| It only uses about 7K of your resources to run and it can even be
| configured to give you a warning at a configurable point before you
| reach that limit.

The REAL story happne in one month.

Comcast DROPS providing all Usenet.
http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/?cookieattempt=1
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They have had a 2G limit on Usenet usage for quite some time, and
somehow I hit it twice (2G is a LOT of text messages!) so I stopped
using it long before that was announced

MS has its own servers for the MS groups (about 2200 of them I think),
and there are a few good free newsgroup servers out there.

Motzarella.org is one that has no limits. Aioe.org is another, but it
has a limit on the number of daily posts and the number of daily
connections. It also doesn't require a log-in, which is probably why
the Vista trolls seem to like it.
 
They have had a 2G limit on Usenet usage for quite some time, and
somehow I hit it twice (2G is a LOT of text messages!) so I stopped
using it long before that was announced
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That happens because your client needs to download all the
unread article headers so it can do kill files and article trees and such.
If you subscribe to a new group, don't read a group for a while, or someone
resets the article count on the client or on the server you can end up with
hundreds of thousands of unread articles. That really does take gigabytes
of data.

If you avoid opening any group with more than a few thousand unread
messages you won't have that problem. Mark the really big ones as all read
and come back, or mark all but the last few hundred unread.
Motzarella.org is one that has no limits. Aioe.org is another, but it
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Panix does it the old fashioned way. They still run their own
news server.
 
That happens because your client needs to download all the
unread article headers so it can do kill files and article trees and such.
If you subscribe to a new group, don't read a group for a while, or someone
resets the article count on the client or on the server you can end up with
hundreds of thousands of unread articles. That really does take gigabytes
of data.
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I usually do a "catch up" with new groups, or with groups I've not
visited in a while. Then I'll "sample" 100 or so messages on busy
groups, or less on those I know are usually slow.
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Paul Montgomery" <[email protected]>

| For anyone whose ISP limits monthly usage - Comcast starts limiting
| users to 250G on Oct. 1 - check out this neat freebie:

| http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=bitmeter2

| It only uses about 7K of your resources to run and it can even be
| configured to give you a warning at a configurable point before you
| reach that limit.

The REAL story happne in one month.

Comcast DROPS providing all Usenet.
http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/?cookieattempt=1
Click to expand...


Bell Canada dropped Usenet over two years ago, and both Bell and Rogers have
capped usage around 60gb for the mid priced service. Rogers tops out at 95gb
for the top service. Not sure about Bell at that level.

The Bell Canada newsgroups were really bad, with users slagging off Bell in
true alt windows os style.. :-)


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Mike Hall - MVP said:
Bell Canada dropped Usenet over two years ago, and both Bell and Rogers
have capped usage around 60gb for the mid priced service. Rogers tops
out at 95gb for the top service. Not sure about Bell at that level.

The Bell Canada newsgroups were really bad, with users slagging off Bell
in true alt windows os style.. :-)
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British Telecom still provide full free uncapped usenet service, although it
seems to be subcontracted to Giganews.

ss.
 
They have had a 2G limit on Usenet usage for quite some time, and
somehow I hit it twice (2G is a LOT of text messages!) so I stopped
using it long before that was announced
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Maybe because you don't have a real life and usenet is the only
alternative for you?
 
Paul said:
For anyone whose ISP limits monthly usage - Comcast starts limiting
users to 250G on Oct. 1 - check out this neat freebie:

http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=bitmeter2

It only uses about 7K of your resources to run and it can even be
configured to give you a warning at a configurable point before you
reach that limit.
Click to expand...
Caps aer gonna be the wave of the future here in the States. lets face
it: Theres' only so much bandwidth, and if only a few binary downloaders
(read "P2P") use it all up, that leaves none for anyone else. WE all
pay the same. WE should all be able to get our bandwidth. 250GB is a
huge amount of data for a home user. Few home users will ever use all
that bandwidth. The ones who DO use it all need to be throttled down
considerably, or else they need to move to SOHO accounts.

And those illegally operating servers and pirate commercial lines need
to be shut down completely, since their traffic bites into our home use.
(Just to remind users, running Internet servers and using home lines for
commercial purposes is strictly forbidden on Comcast and every other ISP
that I know of).

You guys are just plain greedy. NO wonder Comcast put limits on P2P
downloaders. I hope you ALL get throttled to death.

Donald L McDaniel
 
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