[Klug-general] What Broadband Package Do You Use? Rev 2

[Peter Childs]

On 09/05/07, George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (added part for ISP p2p blocking)
>
> Can people add to this list please, I'll put it on the website or
> something when everyone is done with it in a day or so
>
> Ok, so...
>
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> ISPs know to block p2p and to limit 'unlimited' as follows: AOL, BT,
> Demon, Eclipse, Homecall, Nildram, Orange, Pipex, Sky, Supanet, Talk
> Talk, Tiscali and Vispa.



Yes and now Virgin (Cable) too. (download more than xMb in an evening and
have your bandwidth limited for the rest of that evening). Its actually
getting to the point where if you don't want to pay through the nose your
going to get a limited connection.

Peter.


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>
> Cable:
>
>         Good points
>         1. Good service and speed
>
>         Bad points
>         1. Getting worse
>         2. Strange pricing structure
>
>
> Tiscali:
>
>         Good points:
>         n/a
>
>         Bad points:
>         1. You have to threat with legal action to leave
>         2. Speeds aren't what they say they are
>         3. Constant download throttling
>
>
> UKFSN (UK Free Software Network)
>
>         Good points:
>         1. Helping out free software (somehow..?)
>         2. Static ip as standard
>         3. PAYG (Pay As You Go) allowed
>
>         Bad points:
>         1. Strange Allowance allocation
>         2. Extortionate pricing for over-usage
>
>
> Pipex
>
>         Good Points:
>
>
>         Bad points:
>         1. They use 'The Hoff' on their adverts
>
>
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