Yes, it will go towards your bandwidth cap, anything you use your net for counts.
chaseincats said:
if you want to use usenet I suggest just using the news server your ISP provides
you dont have to deal with sleezy Eastern European companies and its free with your ISP subscription
Hardly any ISP's still offer usenet access. Few which do, don't let you have alt.bins which is really what you want or they give you a stupid download limit like 2gb, we all know that won't do.
Go with giganews if you have to, I hear plenty of good about them, avoid usenext at all costs just like everyone else says.