bloody Demon

I normally set my torrents to download overnight and then leave them to
upload during the daytime. I've yet to notice any difference.

The provided newsserver seems pretty good too.

 

<AOL>

And speaking to the bod at IDNet they seem to get quite a few people
moving from Demon to them..

Phil

 

I had NTL cable at the previous address and was happy. ADSL only at this
address, hence the transfer to Virgin.net. both rebranded to Virginmedia
eventually.

 

Must be something to do with location, coz I've never been throttled (some
would say BIG mistake) oop 'ere.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Heh. Although billing is the same, they upgraded me to ADSL2+ and my
modem didn't like it, so I spent hours on the phone going through
scripted helpdesk "support" and endless line tests that got me cut
off so I had to start from the beginning again...

Got it working now with a Netgear DG834 that was a Sky branded
modem/router but reflashed to standard Netgear. Cost me 99p off ebay!

 

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http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/db345f591667e5fd?hl=en

 

are you on cable?

 

Heh. This was only last week, so unless your ebay name is
LittleMissPrettyBum then I doubt it could be ... oh, wait...

 

They "traffic shape". That's the beginning of the end.

 

Precisely

 

Yeah I was thinking of tham as an ADSL providor. On their own fibre network
they will have adequate bandwidth.

 

They don't - as that page shows. They throttle your entire connection if
you exceed a (fairly generous) download limit.

A lot of ISPs actually use traffic shaping to throttle things like P2P
and Usenet all the time.

 

Not on cable they don't. All ISP's do it on ADSL.

 

No they don't!!

Pay £25 for a decent business service and you will get a clean service.

 

Zen. Verizon. etc

 

I'm not sure you will. Most (backpedalling slightly) will enforce some
QOS in their own networks and that will generally treat P2P etc with some
disdain.

 

Sky don't on any of their LLU offerings, and the max offering is
genuinely uncapped with no fair use policy.

 

They do here (unless things have changed recently)

 

Yeah and my "package" is a 20meg thing. Come to think about it, I "may" be
throttled, but if so, it's permanent and I'm being throttled all the time
because my download and upload speeds never seem to change.

I know Virgin have a download management policy, but maybe I don't reach
their trigger point.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

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Exactly the same as me

I made them pay for the Netgear DG834GT which I had to go and buy
because the one they promised me didn't get sent and by this time, I had
been down for a week