Petition Against Throttling

[willofgod]

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Thought this relevant to us lot if anyone wants to add a name to it.

Internet providers are quite clearly oversubscribing on their networks and are resorting to throttling speeds to lower congestion. The problem is they are selling a product by speed and are not offering this speed at peak times (anywhere from 4pm to 1am) which means the service you are paying for is not the service you bought or was advertised. With todays broadband services, eg Games on Demand (up to 4gb per download), movies on demand (up to 2gb in size) and music on demand (anything up to 300mb per album) ISP's have severely underestimated customers usage and rely on this underestimate to continue to oversubscribe their networks and keep the status quo. The problem now being is that the status quo is no longer maintained as we are now being throttled on speeds and blocking ports to restrict the speed we signed up for. The ISP's are blaming pirates but as I have clearly shown this is not the case, it is normal useage for todays bandwidth hungry services and it is unacceptable that our service is being degraded and this needs to be investigated NOW and THOROUGHLY as the state of broadband in the UK is now suffering.

[mrcol]

economics? not the home variety

[pup]

more effective to vote with your feet, not all providers are throttling connections

1. Contact your current provider and request a MAC code to transfer – they may haggle with you to keep your business.
2. Remember, don’t cancel the old service.
3. Search for the best deal on broadband.co.uk ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
4. Sign up with a new provider and give them the MAC code during sign up.

That’s it! Your service should be transferred smoothly in a about a week or so.

[Villan]

Not if you're on cable Pup.;-)

[Hellfire]

also the best deal doesnt always turn out to be so with pings n stuff

[Wags]

Pup's idea is best. Shop around and move if the service is poor.

If you are more modest user in terms of downloads, it may also help to go with an ISP that has capped downloads and charges for excess usage accordingly. The ISPs that say they are 'unlimited ' probably attract download hogs who slow it all down and cause a throttling of the service for the more modest users. That is one of the reasons why I chose my present ISP - no throttling thus far.

[Hellfire]

i personally wouldnt consider using an adsl supplier so am stuck with virgin right now but i have complained so much in the past i get the vip package for £45 pm

thats all tv and movies plus the v+ box and a box upstairs
20 meg broadband
and free calls to any landline anytime

also we get the virgin sim card offer in both our phones
£10 pm 300 texts 300 mins to any network

so for £65 a month all in i aint suffering

the broadband has been a bit crappy since they are upgrading to 20 meg but im sure they will sort it in the long run
just ring retentions tell them your cancelling everything the will sort u out ;)