Story is this - have been with pipex for nearly 4 years now and was on solo 1000 @ £24.99/month this was a free upgrade from solo 500. Phoned Pipex to see if they had any plans to upgrade this service further as my line can support 3meg. They told me the only was to do this was to regrade to pipex max but that involved tying into to a twelve month contract, so i said no as i was going to shop around. They went ahead an regraded me anyway and when i rang up to give off they apologized profusely and offered me the max service for £14.99 (£10 cheaper) to stay with pipex so i agreed to this, this was last friday. Last night i went to download a torrent with bittornado and couldn't get above 5KBps, switched client to Azeura and enabled encryption and was able to hit 80KBkps download. Since then i have read about pipex's traffic shaping policy and it has me a bit miffed to say the least - as i am still within the 14 day cooling off period (which i believe is a statutory consumer right) i may yet cancel depending on the advice i get.
It has been pointed out that it will probably be only a matter of time before the encryption work around is caught on, but is it likely to only be a matter of time before all ISP's introduce traffice shaping of some description?
It seems like nildram is the people's choice on this forum but seeing as they are a pipex owned company surely the must go the same way as pipex? Are there any other recommendations. Basicallly i would still be happy enough to pay £25 for an ISP but can i get one that will offer me up to 8MBps, uncapped downloads (or at least something in the region of 30gb+) no traffic shaping and no 12 month contract?
It has been pointed out that it will probably be only a matter of time before the encryption work around is caught on, but is it likely to only be a matter of time before all ISP's introduce traffice shaping of some description?
It seems like nildram is the people's choice on this forum but seeing as they are a pipex owned company surely the must go the same way as pipex? Are there any other recommendations. Basicallly i would still be happy enough to pay £25 for an ISP but can i get one that will offer me up to 8MBps, uncapped downloads (or at least something in the region of 30gb+) no traffic shaping and no 12 month contract?
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