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Best Fibre Optic ISP For Torrents?
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Well i paid £4.40 from news demon using a code.
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You can get it for free if you have an IPv6 connection...
I think I will. Was hoping that with fibre I could find a deal where I get no FUP/throttling etc. as well as significantly higher speeds but it seems such a package does not exist. No big deal.
I downloaded my entire Steam collection recently (over 600 games) so that would have contributed quite a bit.
For the LLU experience (ie unlimited line speed downloads 24/7) on FTTC, you are currently looking at spending at the very least 100 a month. Anything below that spend and then there will be some overselling (and associated peak time congestion or throttling) to deal with.
Simple as.
Simple as.
I wish bandwidth abusers were forced to pay £100 per month, the broadband situation in this country would be significantly better!
It's gradually going that way anyway; almost all the BT Wholesale sellers have introduced throttling and/or caps; there are those (such as Adsl24, Zen, IDnet, Xilo, Vivaciti, AAISP etc) who sell unthrottled but capped products - pay for what you need. Often they offer unlimited overnight which would work rather nicely for me.
o2 and Be* are raising their prices, o2 are introducing throttling on torrents to make the best of their existing capacity - it's slowly happening.
Trouble is, as evidenced from this thread, most people want to pay only £20 for unlimited; pick any two from: Cheap, reliably fast, unlimited. People don't understand how much it can really cost, and how £20 can't really get unlimited - the only good explanation I can come up with is "ok, unlimited* beer for £5 a month. I also guarantee you to be hangover free, and will guarantee you will struggle to get a drink driving conviction" - sounds rather nice doesn't it, but then when you think about it you realise how I'd pull that idea off.
If you are paying for totally unlimited then it's not abusing the bandwidth.
With who?
Could well be o2 or C&W (an expired o2 contract that's gone 30 day rolling, or the old C&W free connection deal they did). It'll be LLU for sure though.
Yes.
ADSL 24
Yep, C&W LLU sold by ADSL 24.
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Which is precisely why most ISPs do not provide a "totally unlimited" (i.e. no traffic management, no fair use policy) service. Residential Internet access has to be contended if it is to be commercially viable.
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Just don't get up set if your ISP tells you to get lost. We told another couple of dozen people that their usage was commercially unviable this week and they could either reduce it or we'd terminate the contract. Your quoted usage puts you (by my figures) in the very highest bandwidth users bracket (and our users are, from my conversations with others in the industry, slightly higher usage than average anyway).
In the last month less than 0.5% of a our users used over 500GB a month, but they accounted for roughly 12% of our xDSL bandwidth costs. So it's a choice between everybody else subsidising their usage (and hence paying more than necessary), them paying more or just telling them to get lost. The first is unjustifiable in our view, the second requires more complex billing and reporting which adds to our costs and the last is free and easy. It's not hard to guess which we're doing...