dabookerman Posted April 18, 2006 Posted April 18, 2006 basically, tiscali have gona crap. now i would like to download stuff torrent, nothing illegal aswell, like unlicensed anime or similar things. however they have this stupid policy of not downloading between 6-11pm. or they will limit my upload speed. meaning things go crap... basically is there a adsl version of telewest?
triforce_keeper Posted April 18, 2006 Posted April 18, 2006 Well I have blueyonder and I have limewire......which i download songs off. I know this is illegal but will blueyonder know im downloading it?
Jon Posted April 18, 2006 Posted April 18, 2006 I have pipex and lets just say my downloading hasn't been hampered.
Charlie Posted April 18, 2006 Posted April 18, 2006 Actually, they do. Apparently. I haven't noticed though.... http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Bad_ISPs
broadwayrock Posted April 18, 2006 Posted April 18, 2006 dabookerman have you tried utorrent? you can enable protocol encryption with it, and people on other forums have reported that it has helped them avoid speed caps during peak times with similar ISPs.
Twozzok Posted April 18, 2006 Posted April 18, 2006 uTorrent is teh r0c :P Honestly though, i'm on AOL and they don't even do that :/
mario114 Posted April 18, 2006 Posted April 18, 2006 The have started emailing me about to many downlaods in peek hours, it's the bigest laod of crap ever, it wasn't mentioned in the user agreement I signed up for, I signed up for 20 meg plus pay £1.50 for every meg over, now they tell me I'm on the "unlimited package", firstly it's not unlimited and secondly, I am sure I am paying more that they charge for there standard "unlimited". (I pay £30 a month £20 for the broadband, and £10 for the phone). As soon as I can i will switch to a better company on a heavy user package. Edit: I read there fair usage thingy, and i'm not sure why they even emailed me, I don't use any fileshare products, I only octiaonly download big files (like planet side), but I allways have the radio on (online), always. I also need to check what my mum is paying now, as when we signed up we were paying £30, but now they put us in the package which should be £20 a month.
Sanchez Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 lol. Tiscali was never good to begin with. I was on pipex until a week ago, my reasons for moving are that they're MAXDSL is far to expensive, they will start throtteling soon and that my speeds have been a bit lame recently anyway. I'm now with EvolutionDSL(.net). 25 a month for true unlimited broadband, they even use it as a selling point. XD So far speeds have been good, im not gaming right now but others have reported that pings. They're a pretty small start up so they don't have telephone support but they are setting one up. (and their email support is very quick, responses within the hour some times). From what I have seen they are friendly and proffesional.
Mr_Odwin Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 I was with Pipex and never noticed any bandwidth restriction. In a newsletter they said they would restrict heavy users but I imagine you'd have to be pretty extreme for that top kick in. I recently moved house and just changed to Nildram on their up-to-8mb package (25.99 plus a free phone minutes package). My line can only get about 3mb down and 400k up but I'm liking it so far. Offpeak (12am-8am or something) you can download as much as you like. At peak times you have a 50GB limit per month. But it rolls over from the last month if you don't use it so that's handy. Remember to let someone from the forum refer you if you go with Pipex or Nildram as we get money off, and that would be lovely of you. :p
Jon Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 I wish Pipex would roll out their Pipex Max to exisiting customers, im missing out on 5Mbit here.
xanikseo Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 I use BT yahoo. The prices look expensive before you buy, but it is actually the total cost, unlike other companies who hide the total cost. They have a 20gb traffic limit per month per household. I have personally never ever even got near that limit even when downloading about 20 massive games from the internet.
AshMat Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 Im on BT, bag of crap 2gb limit, which ive already gone over this month. I don't know if they actually monitor what you download, they don't let you know when you've gone over, i don't think. They monitor your downloads themselves, i don't know if this mean they know what you're downloading. We might be moving to talktalk, International plan: 10£ Line rental i think International, national and mobile calls inclusive Free internet forever. with a one time £25 set up fee. 40gb lim per month.
Charlie Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 Free forever? I don't think it will be up to scratch... Speaks for itself really (TalkTalk), speeds been decreasing for 5 months-ish now, same with reliability and Customer service.
dabookerman Posted April 24, 2006 Author Posted April 24, 2006 all will soon be well, i am switching as of tomorow
dabookerman Posted April 24, 2006 Author Posted April 24, 2006 Who did you switch to? i am planning on moving to nildram, what do you think?
Jon Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 i am planning on moving to nildram, what do you think? Might as well just go for Pipex, they own nildram and are top of those graphs.
Mr_Odwin Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 Just because Nildram aren't on that pic. If they were you'd see they're better rated. See: I've had zero probs with Nildram Booker. Cheaper than Pipex, they provide decent access to news groups, 100mb webspace, some phone call package and some e-mail space.
dabookerman Posted April 24, 2006 Author Posted April 24, 2006 So i can go ahead and sign up with then, cheers.
Jon Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 Just because Nildram aren't on that pic. If they were you'd see they're better rated. See: I've had zero probs with Nildram Booker. Cheaper than Pipex, they provide decent access to news groups, 100mb webspace, some phone call package and some e-mail space. I would rather pay a little extra to have no usage caps.
dabookerman Posted April 24, 2006 Author Posted April 24, 2006 their usage cap is 50gb during peak hours, i cant imagine myself using that much per month.
Strider Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 Im on wanadoo 1mb 2G limit. I play world of warcraft (ALOT), CS:S and battlefield 2 aswell as downloading a load and sharing the connection with my bro. Afew months ago they moaned witha few letters that we were going over the limit but we ignored them and they've not complained since.
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