Had enough and considering moving ISP

Oxide™

Oxide™

Oxide™

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Recently it seems Freedom 2 Surf have started to shape my Newsleecher Giganews SSL traffic to 15kb/s. I have been with them for 3 years and not had one issue until now. I average 70gig/month so not a ridiculous heavy user (although it can peak at 130gig at times).....however how much is downloaded is not the point.

I may be locked into a 12 month contract with them. I read in another thread that people suggest ADSL24 highly. Is there a way I can leave F2S for ADSL24? Could I say they are in breach of their contract as they said it is unlimited but yet they traffic shape, or does that open the can of worms of 'unlimited download but not unlimited speed' like in the current thread about this?

Will call them up tomorrow and have a moan - they are a nice bunch there.

While I am here creating a thread - Last Gadget Show they were going on about 'Writing a letter to your ISP complaining about this whole unlimited broadband issue'

Heres the link http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/blog/unlimited-broadband

I just may actually send this in....perhaps if enough of us do then we can perhaps get somewhere, especially in this age of streaming HD content and PS3 Network etc.
 
if yo have been with them for 3 years how are you in a contract with them for 12 months ? surely it ran out in the first 12 months and now you r on a rolling contract ??
 
I'm curious, do you archive all the stuff on an ever increasing array of hard drives or delete the stuff after watching/using whatever it is?
 
divaboy said:
if yo have been with them for 3 years how are you in a contract with them for 12 months ? surely it ran out in the first 12 months and now you r on a rolling contract ??
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I am getting he has changed package deals somewhere down the line which ties you into another 12 month contract.
 
guys 130gig is like the most I ever downloaded - yes had a pron dl fest....the missus was away .....averaging 70gig is not a lot if you stream HD content and dl demos in PS3 store.

I recently called em up and they offered me a better package at a cheaper rate with a wireless router (but to get router I had to enter a 12 month contract)

faffed around and changed the default newsleecher port to SSL 443 instead of default NNTP port of 119....downloading again at max bandwidth ~ 600kb/s
 
Pretty much every ISP in the UK offers UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS*...

...with that * meaning "Fair Use Policy applies", which in most cases is extremely hard to find, never mind make sense of, being vague at best about what qualifies for "over use".
 
Be, o2 and Sky LLU are the routes you should take if you want to have something much closer to unlimited. The LLU services are cheaper for the ISPs and hence when they say unlimited they generally mean it (Many have downloaded over 500GB/month without issues).
 
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