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Ah, their free trial had a bandwidth cap, since I went over my limit they shut me down

Giganews --like most other free trials-- would charge one dollar upon signup, and then charge a month's cost if you went over the trial limit, and they would only cut off service if the charge was rejected.

With one problem however; last night I was getting a full 700Kb/s rate. After I activated my premium sub and tried re-downloading, I now only get 180Kb/s. Is this a common issue with Comcast that any of you are aware of? I just want the download speeds I had last night...

Use SSL **with non-standard port** to evade ISP throttling.
Also try rebooting your modem when speeds drop.

2.It is one of three ways. These are: 1. headers. 2. search engines (like NZBindex) 3. index sites (like FilesharingTalk)

Is NZBindex not an index too? Users there submit the NZBs. A search engine would be something like binsearch, newzleech etc. I think NZB indexes are useless anyway, nothing on them you can't find on a on sites like binsearch

The original websites that called themselves NZB "index sites" were ones in which users uploaded hand-picked NZBs (usually of verified content) to the site.

Usenet search engines like Binsearch.info and NZBindex.nl (which came later) could arguable be considered a type of indexing service, however the word "index site" was already in use previously to denote sites containing user-submitted content.

Also, NZBindex.nl does not, to my knowledge, contain any user-submitted content.