internets

Ingo · Post by **Ingo** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:33 pm

I've sky are pretty rox now, espec if you are within the area where unbundling actually increases your speed. I'll be moving to them when I move out (again!).

Superfast Oz · Post by **Superfast Oz** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:30 pm

sky too, no problems at all. best isp i've had.

Lady Redname · Post by **Lady Redname** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:40 pm

im on plusnet

they are perfect and never go down, its just that they cost £20 a month and i still get a 10 gig cap..

its not a problem atm since my computer is broken, but i could get the same from sky for £5

does anyone have experience with 02?

Post by **Buster** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:53 pm

I'm with Orange at the moment, but they have capped my speed to 512k as i exceeded the fair use policy. The same fair use policy that has no writen rules and no way of tracking my usage. Plusnet used to have a page on the home page that showed you your peak and off-peak usage so it was easy to manage. All i get from Orange is a shitty letter telling me i've exceeded it, saying i'll be capped until my usage goes down. That was March. In may i got a letter saying the cap was being removed, but it's still ion place 2 months later. I've rung them every day to try and sort it out but thanks to bloody indian call centers and the language ( maybe accent is more accurate ) barrier, i'm left feeling like i'm talking to idiots. They keep telling me there is no cap, has never been a cap and will never be one. Even though the speed testing site they use shows there is and the engineers ( english ) i've spoken to agree there is!

/Rant off

Lady Redname wrote:does anyone have experience with 02?

Was thinking of trying these as well. Only reason i'm with Orange is my mobile is with them as well and the Livebox gives me free calls to Aus. O2 also have a similar system and thier ADSL package is currently without a usage limit.

Zim Zum · Post by **Zim Zum** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:05 pm

Fuck me Buster just cancel payment and get a new provider.

Noxin · Post by **Noxin** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:32 pm

I'm moving to Finland to get a real ISP.
It seems quicker and easier than waiting for the UK to sort itself out.

Villa · Post by **Villa** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:27 pm

Zim Zum wrote:Fuck me Buster just cancel payment and get a new provider.

What he said.

Night · Post by **Night** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:02 pm

BT is ok although they have the retarded 'fair use policy' which can seriously impact your pr0n download speeds during peak times

Zim Zum · Post by **Zim Zum** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:25 am

BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse are all today sending out letters to users suspected of file sharing with threats to cut or limit service if they continue.

I think now is the time to cut this in the bud by voting with our wallets, anyone with these companies who wants to do any file downloading/sharing should move to another ISP before they get cut off. These companies will soon backtrack when they lose a large portion of their customers, I'm not sure they realise how prevalent file sharing is.

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:21 am

I see Sky are offering 16mbit for £8, pretty tempting. Downside is though, you'd need the sky deal + bt phoneline charges on top, it mounts up. I do almost no downloading these days anyway, so probably a bit wasted.

I think the ISPs will backtrack anyway, there will always be a way of getting round it. I see this as much a publicity stunt and scare tactic as much as anything else.

Superfast Oz · Post by **Superfast Oz** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:49 am

If Sky write to me I'll just switch. I download shit all the time so I'm not having letters coming my way every month.

Villa · Post by **Villa** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:56 pm

...newsgroups...does not count as file sharing...available from even these hypocritical ISPs themselves...real men don't torrent...why am I typing like this?...

Lady Redname · Post by **Lady Redname** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:04 pm

they are sending letters out, but they are refusing to do anything else

which is lol, although i got kicked off my isp 5 years ago for downloading to much (i was in the top 8 users for Leicester apparently)

Villa · Post by **Villa** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:36 pm

Lady Redname wrote:they are sending letters out, but they are refusing to do anything else

which is lol, although i got kicked off my isp 5 years ago for downloading to much (i was in the top 8 users for Leicester apparently)

Is this your Andy Warhol moment ?

King Cyric · Post by **King Cyric** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:11 pm

who the fuck has a top 8 list?!

either there's only 8 people with internet in leicester, or you're eighth.