drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Im looking for an ISP that offers up to 8mbps on non LLU exchanges (Hereford doesnt have it yet, but it does support up to 8mbps), but completely unlimited mainly for bittorrents. Ive seen some (I think zen) that have like a 50 gig a month cap off peak and 100% unlimited at night, which would be fine, but dont think they do the 8mbps yet. Starting to get annoyed with Ukonline, havent seen over 30kbps on bittorrents for a few months, usual speed is between 3 and 9  (PS the conection doesnt even get used that often cos im at uni and my sister doesnt download. )
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Everywhere should do up to 8meg now with ADSLMax depending how near the exchange you are.
Very little unlimited now and most 'unlimited' have a fair use policy.
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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You tried bulldog?
not sure if they are on the local loop unbundling exchanges though, pretty sure they are!
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Tiscali e mailed me last week saying they will shortly be offering 8mb unlimited bb.
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drunkenfool
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I was with Tiscali before and theres no way I would EVER go back with them even if they paid me. 
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drunkenfool
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PS I need an ISP that doesnt throttle the P2P ports, thats the main thing i mean by unlimited.
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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I know what you mean! I just cant find anyone else offering 2mb for 17.99 that I want to go with!
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John
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I don't know any of them that throttle ports anymore.
They throttle specific traffic eg bittorrent.
Get a client that can encrypt it such as utorrent.
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drunkenfool
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Get a client that can encrypt it such as utorrent.
Woo, getting 40k/s now! Still not amazing but a huge improvement
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Dan B
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
Im looking for an ISP that offers up to 8mbps on non LLU exchanges (Hereford doesnt have it yet, but it does support up to 8mbps), but completely unlimited mainly for bittorrents. Ive seen some (I think zen) that have like a 50 gig a month cap off peak and 100% unlimited at night, which would be fine, but dont think they do the 8mbps yet. Starting to get annoyed with Ukonline, havent seen over 30kbps on bittorrents for a few months, usual speed is between 3 and 9 (PS the conection doesnt even get used that often cos im at uni and my sister doesnt download. )
Zen's offerings aren't unlimited off-peak, the 20GB & 50GB limits apply to any downloads done at any time (uploads don't count towards your total). They also do not block any ports (apart from 135-139, which shouldn't be outside of your internal network anyway), or shape traffic to slow it down at certain times.
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drunkenfool
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Could have been Nildram, I'll have to check again.
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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no complaints here with telewest 10mb...
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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freedom2surf offer a 100gb cap limit
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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f2s are gay now.
I've been with them since my exchange was enabled in 2003 and i'm looking into changing this month.
Dl speeds won't go above 150k/s with a ~2400k line.
Shuold be at least 100k over that.
Traffic shaping is taking the biscuit now.
Went downhill quickly after pipex bought them.
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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i get d/l speeds of 400kb/s + and i live in the middle of nowhere, recently thot the service has been up and down mind but i think theyre experiencing problems atm the mo
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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They seem to be experiencing a lot of problems.
I did give them the benefit of the doubt and didn't jump ship like a lot of people did but if it continues I will have no choice.
I wouldn't mind if they gave me the speeds my line can handle.
I can get 250 no problem and was doin when I 1st got max.
Its came right down again though and its definitely being throttled because if I dl more than one thing the speed goes up.
Torrents are obviously also throttled but I haven't used any other p2p recently.
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