Is there an ISP which doesn't enforce a fair use policy?

[gman1981]

Vote for Telewest here, I regularly download large chunks of data and have never been throttled. I think NTL also have the same policy now after merging with Telewest.

[kopite]

IF its available i`d go with cable every time.

All the people I know who have cable get really fast connections and seemingly uncapped

[adam1701]

Im on AOL platinum (8mb), but in the evenings i only get 512kbps internet....
anyone got any ideas why?
i get 8mb the rest of the time just from around like 1700-2300 every weekday...
i know this because i only get like 60-65 kb/s max on downloads during this time!
750kb/s all of the rest of the time!!!

[xrob]

i'm with lchost.co.uk, i use them for my adsl and servers, bit expensive but you get what you pay for. no restrictions, no limits. i havnt even paid anything for it since i got it installed either lol. anyway highly recommend them, get them on IRC qnet aswell. spk to ^i^

[nichomach]

Telewest. "Cable. If you can, you should..."

[kopite]

Im on AOL platinum (8mb), but in the evenings i only get 512kbps internet....
anyone got any ideas why?
i get 8mb the rest of the time just from around like 1700-2300 every weekday...
i know this because i only get like 60-65 kb/s max on downloads during this time!
750kb/s all of the rest of the time!!!

The most likely reason for that is contention. Even though Bt say there is no contention any more.

Basically its because in the evenings there are more people using the internet on your exchange and there is only a certain amound of bandwidth to go around.

For a 2-8 meg service as long as the download is above 400kbps then you are well within bts performane thresholds for dsl

[mikerr]

I was round my mates the other day and I could download faster on my 3G laptop card than on his 2MB ADSL

[adam1701]

The most likely reason for that is contention. Even though Bt say there is no contention any more.

Basically its because in the evenings there are more people using the internet on your exchange and there is only a certain amound of bandwidth to go around.

For a 2-8 meg service as long as the download is above 400kbps then you are well within bts performane thresholds for dsl

Ok so nothing i can do about this?

[kopite]

Ring AOL tech and kick off on em. They might be able to help.

[Kezzer]

I'm on NTL's 2Mbit package. It has no download limit, and I'm certain of that otherwise they'd have been on me like a hawk already. I get more than maximum download speeds as well.