LeftOfSanity
join:2005-11-06
Felton, DE
| reply to beerbum
Re: The Comcast Newsgroups Service Discontinued
said by beerbum  :so will Comcast be reducing our bills since the equivalent service from Giganews is $7.99 per month? hahahaha I doubt it. Comcast just takes and takes while either raising prices or restricting/dropping services.. what's next, dump the "always on" and start charging by the hour after being on-line past a certain time limit?? this really sucks, now I have to pay an extra $8 per month for a service I want and use? absolute bullshit.. Well technically the price you pay is for access to the internet. Anything else (email,usenet,free anti-virus) are just added features. |
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mardyron
join:2004-02-06
Hydes, MD
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Well technically the price you pay is for access to the internet. Anything else (email,usenet,free anti-virus) are just added features.
that is plain crap. It is a package deal. If you read their site it even pushes the AMOUNT of storage for email & webspace for a website. Including software for website creation. So it IS PART OF THE PRICE.
But we all know they wont issue credits. Damn when you have an outage & 1 department tells you they will credit you have to follow up & force it or else they will rip you off. That goes for the TV/ISP/PHONE service. Not just 1 but all. I know different areas = different quality of service. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
1 edit | said by mardyron : quote:
Well technically the price you pay is for access to the internet. Anything else (email,usenet,free anti-virus) are just added features.
that is plain crap. It is a package deal. If you read their site it even pushes the AMOUNT of storage for email & webspace for a website. Including software for website creation. So it IS PART OF THE PRICE. But we all know they wont issue credits. Damn when you have an outage & 1 department tells you they will credit you have to follow up & force it or else they will rip you off. That goes for the TV/ISP/PHONE service. Not just 1 but all. I know different areas = different quality of service. Ok... what about years ago when there wasn't webspace?
No online storage?
No... anything?
They were added. 
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
1 edit | I think that a lot of this disagreement is age-based.
For me, I started when Internet access meant dial up with nothing else. I then added usenet on my own. Next, I went to DSL. Internet only and I added my own Usenet. Next, I went to WOW cable. At the time, it was internet only. I added my own Usenet. I can't quite remember with Comcast, but I think it was 1GB when they inititally came to town here. I still had my own Usenet.
Taking away Usenet from someone that's been at it as long as I have is a non-issue. For the younger ones, I suppose it feels like something is being taken away. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| said by Goober :I think that a lot of this disagreement is age-based. For me, I started when Internet access meant dial up with nothing else. I then added usenet on my own. Next, I went to DSL. Internet only and I added my own Usenet. Next, I went to WOW cable. At the time, it was internet only. I added my own Usenet. I can't quite remember with Comcast, but I think it was 1GB when they inititally came to town here. I still had my own Usenet. Taking away Usenet from someone that's been at it as long as I have is a non-issue. For the younger ones, I suppose it feels like something is being taken away. More than likely!
Someone that came in to Comcast HSI recently, AFTER all the *added services* were in place and then get trashed "due to the declining popularity of Newsgroups...", Yeah!
Well, they were still added on to a rather plain service.
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chesler
@smiths-group.com
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said by Goober :I think that a lot of this disagreement is age-based. For me, I started when Internet access meant dial up with nothing else. When I started there weren't any Interwebs. We had dialup to a public access Unix, and data traveled by UUCP.
I still like Usenet. If I didn't have a long-term agreement with Comcast I'd be bummed and look elsewhere to see if RCN or Verizon have better offers. (They might not, thems the breaks.) But I do have a 24-month agreement, so I'm not happy that midstream they took away two things that were part of why I accepted the agreement.
(- That IP belongs to my employer; I'm just borrowing it, not representing them.) |
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | I started back in those days as well. But, this is a discussion about internet access and Usenet. |
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mardyron
join:2004-02-06
Hydes, MD
| reply to dadkins
Well then you must have had really bad providers. I go back to the dial-up providers. Most had email & webspace. Only the lame one's like prodigy & AOL didn't until later on.
I will restate that, I agree it is an age based topic & that depending on your location, different packages were offered @ different rates. But quite a few offered the email & webspace. In comparison from Verizon to Comcast, the Verizon DSL offers unlimited newsgroups with many more (topics) compared to the limited Comcast.
As in any case. Comcast has removed it, they wont offer a credit. They don't even respond to the "SLOW" connection. I recently upgraded to the triple play & they screwed with my "Gamers Package" for speed. I have been lucky & getting 10-16/1, now I'm luck if i get 3-5/384. I pay the extra & they still have yet to correct their screw up.
I will be dropping them soon if it isn't corrected. The Digital box has been replaced 3 times in less than 25 days. The EMTA box had to be replaced due to the failure of the phone during a power outage (this was due to the idiots NOT putting the battery backup in it). |
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chesler
Premium
join:2008-09-22
Woburn, MA
| Dadkins: yes, NNTP and HTTP are protocols. Losing the source of the content that went into the NNTP pipe is more like losing Rhapsody or the SciFi channel.
Mardyron: re-agreed its age. It used to be all email and news (or BBS for those that swung that way). For some of us news is big enough part that we're pissing and moaning about it here.
I've got the options of Comcast, Verison FIOS, or RCN in my location, and unfortunately even if I have to pay $8 for my own Giganews, the other two seem to be worse, on both price and analog TV content. I snail-mailed Comcast on 9/18, mentioning our 24-month agreement. I haven't seen their response yet.
(Hmm, I wonder if us old-farts who like Usenet also have an unusually high preference for analog TV? On a 19" lo-def set channel-lag is a bigger deal than extreme picture quality.) |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| reply to chesler
Re: The Comcast Newsgroups Service Discontinued
said by chesler :Dadkins: yes, NNTP and HTTP are protocols. Losing the source of the content that went into the NNTP pipe is more like losing Rhapsody or the SciFi channel. *Translation - no loss.
For those of us "old-farts" that did get into news... 2GB was then and is still now a waste of time!
Seriously, would any of you pay $7.99 for 2GB per month?
$19.99 - $24.99 for unlimited is a far better deal
If Comcast was offering unlimited then canceled it, I'd probably be pissed too. It's 2GB FFS!
Since it was 2GB, what's the fuss?
Because it was free?
TONS of free NGs out there! Problem solved, right? 
Y'all aren't losing anything of any intrinsic value.
Complaining about something that will not be coming back is a waste of your(and our) time.
It's gone! CYA! Bye Bye! No more! History! Dust in the Wind! Game Over!
said by chesler :(Hmm, I wonder if us old-farts who like Usenet also have an unusually high preference for analog TV? On a 19" lo-def set channel-lag is a bigger deal than extreme picture quality.) Uhm... not here! Usenet is fine! 2GB was a joke so good riddance!
Extreme PQ? Hello! Typing this on one of two BD laptops.
Yeah, my cable is Standard cable(analog) but I do get Clear QAM HDTV via a tuner I have.
The networks, locals, and PBS are HD.
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