Well, I am a Pipex Customer....

[DR]

http://pipexsucks.webhop.info/


Not affected me yet...

[dfowles]

me neither but I would not really define myself as a "Heavy User" anyway.

[Flibb]

nor me, download the odd bit of big stuff (p2p, game demos, etc) and play games a couple of hours every night. Suppose im not a power user really

[Lee H]

Not affected me yet...

Yet being the operative word

You'll setup your digital media home and then use stuff like shoutcast et al for internet radio and within a few months they'll limit you to speeds akin to dial-up connectivity.

the limiting now ISP's for the sake of our mental health and also business. What about homeworkers that remote to systems from home, surely limiting like this would affect their connections as well ?

[neonplanet40]

Have a looka t my thread and see what plusnet have done to me yesterday and now i have jsut got another email only a day after the last!!

Neo

[Funkstar]

I agree the way that plus net has handled their download caps is really rubish but other than that i can't see the problem.

I can't remember exactly how ISPs are charged for ADSL by BT, but it does vary on the amount of data transfered through a connection. At the prices some ISPs are charging they must be making penies a month from uses, so it's no surprise they want to keep their costs under control.

If you want completely unmettered broadband you are going to have to pay sugnificantly more than the £15 plus charge for their bsic service.

[RedPutty]

I didnt know about freedom2surfs throttling until reading about it in this thread. I joined them and paid more for the uncapped package but now pipex have bought them out and are doing the same to us.. grrrr

[oclocker]

I agree the way that plus net has handled their download caps is really rubish but other than that i can't see the problem.

I can't remember exactly how ISPs are charged for ADSL by BT, but it does vary on the amount of data transfered through a connection. At the prices some ISPs are charging they must be making penies a month from uses, so it's no surprise they want to keep their costs under control.

If you want completely unmettered broadband you are going to have to pay sugnificantly more than the £15 plus charge for their bsic service.

I PAY £35 A MONTH to Zen as they are reliable and def unlimite - was metronet before pusnet bought them out..

Whilst a lot of ISPs are being VERY unethical over the "unlimited" that is very limited - given BTs charging system its inevitable - but its the way they do things rather than the actual capping thats bad.

Heavy users who expect unlimited bandwidth for £15 a month are daft TBH..