Ping: Comcast Users (Newsgroup Service Upgrade)

[Suicane75]

Comcast is upgrading it's newsgroup service, now you get 2 Gigs instead of 1 and headers no longer count towards your total, not earth shattering but still nice.

Dear Comcast Newsgroup Customer,

As you may already know, Comcast has recently upgraded our Newsgroup service offering. Now you get a total of two gigabytes of downloads each month (previously one gigabyte) and headers are not counted towards your download totals. With this latest upgrade we are also changing the method you will use to sign in to Comcast Newsgroups. The log in credentials assigned by Giganews (user name begins with the letters "cc") will be disabled after July 15th, 2005.

What do you need to do?

To continue using Comcast's Newsgroup service, you must change your newsreader settings.

The correct settings are as follows:

News Server (NNTP): newsgroups.comcast.net
User name: your full Comcast.net Primary email address* (example: [email protected])
Password: your Comcast.net password

*Not sure of your Primary user name? Click here

A step by step FAQ for setting up Outlook Express as your newsreader can be found here, or you can use a One Click Fix to set up your account.

Thank you
Comcast High-Speed Internet

[DanGarion]

Weird, we (my employer Time Warner Cable) just throttles downloads at around 384 Kbps which isn't too bad once you get started with your downloading (depending on what you are downloading). I used to leech newsgroups for weeks but I got tired of having to filter through all the crap when I used News Bin Pro.