Atlantic Broadband / Giganews cap?

[sobonefnet]

Just wondering if any other Atlantic Broadband customers are having a problem when using Giganews - my bandwidth seems to be capped when using GN.

 

[LER]

giganews has always had caps, AFAIR. I used to work in the ISP industry.

 

[sobonefnet]

I think it is lousy that an ISP can just cap something for no reason. I pay for a 5Mbps connection and they have giga capped at 1Mbps

 

[sobonefnet]

UPDATE:: They have capped my upload now as well. Like 512 wasn't bad enough. Limited to 324 now. FIOS can't get here quick enough.

 

[RedPenguin]

Ouch....

UPDATE:: They have capped my upload now as well. Like 512 wasn't bad enough. Limited to 324 now. FIOS can't get here quick enough.

How did you find out that they capped your upload? Did you try uploading something to the "groups?"

Anyway, I also live in PA and have Atlantic Broadband.

I'm using news.atlanticbb.net because since it used to be Supernews, it's now Giganews since they bought Supernews out, so it's basically Giganews except 150 day retention instead of 200 day.

My speed has been going up and down, and I mean constantly. In any given minute, the newsgroups can go 30kb/s, then 150kb/s, than 150kb/s, than 60kb/s, and on and on. Then if I'm really lucky one or two connections will give me "480 - Authorization Required" and just basically freeze any downloading.

 

[vprovider]

I don't have any problem. Atlantic Broadband provide best service.

 

[vprovider]

I don't have any problem. Atlantic Broadband provide best service.



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[code101]

Has anyone else noticed been getting constant 408 authenticate messages when trying to download anything from Atlantic Broadband newsgroups? It was fine last week and now....nothing. Just constant error messages about wanting to authenticate?