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 Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 01:47 Post subject: |
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they put a whole in your wall, or thats how they used to do it, and feed the cable in.. last one i had done was yearrrs ago and it run under the garden up the front wall into the house..
Anyhow on a diff note, virgins cap stuff is cruddy from all people ive spoken to about it and people I know that have it.. can be a pain in the ass.. never used to be but since goverment legislation they are putting out across the UK from some outside company usage/hardware/software bullshit monitoring system, so all the uk's bandwidth via providers can be handled better (distribution of fairness) etc..
This blows because the uk as if anyone dont know by now does not have enough bandwidth infastructure to cope with the demand, so they just fuck u in the ass when you sign up for any provider now.. You will notice ALL broadban in uk has the words "up to so many mb" thats so they can use the fairness card and cap your rate when needed..
I was leeching a fair bit on usenet a while back and they fracked me right up by capping me to 60-90 kb/s lol and that lasted from like 6pm to 1am every night for a mnth until they saw my leeching was dropping again and then the software releases the cap..
I dont personaly give a fuck about capping to an extent but I used to think shit if I wasnt retired to a point where Im at home all day, Id be at work come home and then my free time after work from 6pm to 1am would be shite for gaming etc lol and yet i was still paying the full amount for my so called "up to broadband amount".. funny really it is lol..
The other problem is these company types wont stop introducing new products, like say BT Vision.,. omfg what bullshit, supposed to run on a diff backbone but total crap for sure,, you can tell when its after pub hours and club hours and the boozer all come home in droves and they fire up a few porn films in my street on instan movie download to ur t.v and bang goes my rate again...
I dont care what they say about seperate lines its a fucking joke.. If I could move to sweeden etc I would at least they get I believe kick ass high speed dedicated lines..
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 01:59 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info moosenoodles.. but what i mean is, how do they get it from the public path/road up my drive and to the front of the house? Need to get a new driveway done soon and just thinking about any complications. Im putting the house up for sale soon and need to keep certain things in mind.
I have heard about ppl being on the same optical cables and getting really bad speeds at times. I wont hesitate to cancel if it is really that bad after its installed.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 02:04 Post subject: |
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jeeebus! there is one company here Time Warner Cable that wants to introduce caps to say 40gb for 50$ a month..so that is $1 per gigabyte..pretty retarded that US internet is moving backwards instead of forward.
.or today they want to make unlimited internet with no cap for 150$ so your total bill with TV, internet and home line would be almost $400 after taxes...while I just got 7.1mb line with tv and homeline and paying 150$ after taxes or close to it
People are quitting that company left and right..and I wanted to pick once current contract with DSL runs out..since they offer I think 20mb line...
we are yet soo far away from speeds like in Japan..what is it 140mb for 60$ a month? now that is crazy! fuck those assholes and their caps..can shovel it up their asses
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 11:06 Post subject: |
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I'm on virgins 10mb and have been for years. I have never had a problem with it. The caps happen if you download about 2 GB or more between 4PM - > 9pm. so from 9PM -> 4pm night over morning its unlimited. I do most of my downloads over night anyways. Even when you get capped, you get dropped to 2mb from 10 which is hardly 'that' slow..
They drill a small hole under your front door normally to feed the wire through. Thats what they did at my place anyway.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 11:14 Post subject: |
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So are there NO UK ISP that offers unlimited BW?
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 11:44 Post subject: |
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never as long as they are part of the american cash cow.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 13:03 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 14:00 Post subject: |
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Umm, whoever said that you need to be on Be*s top teer to get unlimited service is wrong.. all teers have "unlimited" access. Also Be* is not the only ISP in the UK to offer "unlimited" both 02 (any teer) and sky (top teer) offer this...
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 14:47 Post subject: |
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Last edited by Yondaime on Mon, 2nd Dec 2024 16:04; edited 1 time in total
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 15:51 Post subject: |
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| deelix wrote: | | So are there NO UK ISP that offers unlimited BW? |
virginmedia has unlimited bandwidth you can download hundreds of GB a month but at certain times of the day if you download more than XX depending on which package you are on then your connection gets limited for a few hours.
its better than beeing charged per GB after 40gb or whatever.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 16:11 Post subject: |
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By the way guys, while it may be ridiculously expensive, Virgin's new 50Mbit line has no usage limits. The 20Mbit line had a "more than 3GB between 4PM and 10PM, we drop you from 20Mbit to 5Mbit" cap -- and the 10Mbit line had a "more than 2GB between 4PM and 10PM, we drop you from a 10Mbit to 2Mbit" cap.
While most could argue that ANY cap is unfair, I still reckon 5Mbit isn't exactly hell. The biggest downside came from the utterly broken capping timeframes. Virgin claim it's only if you download over xxx amount during peak hours (4-10) - but in the end, before I cancelled my service as I move to Norway, I was ending up being capped from 2PM in the afternoon until later night -- and often at ALL times on the weekend. Soon as I went over 3GB (I had the 20Mbit line) at any time on the weekend; bang. Capped down to 5Mbit.
My mum has the 2Mbit line (chortle) back in England and she gets capped 24/7. Doesn't matter what time of the day it is, if she goes over 1GB .. she's instantly capped for 3hrs.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 17:04 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the links swingman.. seems i must have been searching with the wrong keywords or something on google. Looks like they won't dig up anything and they should be able to fix the cable along a small wall i have out the front.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 17:06 Post subject: |
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| Newty182 wrote: | | Thanks for the links swingman.. seems i must have been searching with the wrong keywords or something on google. Looks like they won't dig up anything and they should be able to fix the cable along a small wall i have out the front. |
Awesome! just ready for someone you upset one day to come along and cut that fucker with ease lol.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 18:07 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | By the way guys, while it may be ridiculously expensive, Virgin's new 50Mbit line has no usage limits. The 20Mbit line had a "more than 3GB between 4PM and 10PM, we drop you from 20Mbit to 5Mbit" cap -- and the 10Mbit line had a "more than 2GB between 4PM and 10PM, we drop you from a 10Mbit to 2Mbit" cap.
While most could argue that ANY cap is unfair, I still reckon 5Mbit isn't exactly hell. The biggest downside came from the utterly broken capping timeframes. Virgin claim it's only if you download over xxx amount during peak hours (4-10) - but in the end, before I cancelled my service as I move to Norway, I was ending up being capped from 2PM in the afternoon until later night -- and often at ALL times on the weekend. Soon as I went over 3GB (I had the 20Mbit line) at any time on the weekend; bang. Capped down to 5Mbit.
My mum has the 2Mbit line (chortle) back in England and she gets capped 24/7. Doesn't matter what time of the day it is, if she goes over 1GB .. she's instantly capped for 3hrs. |
What ISP do you got here in Norway? Nextgentel here; cheap, good support and reliable modems.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 18:32 Post subject: |
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| moosenoodles wrote: | | Newty182 wrote: | | Thanks for the links swingman.. seems i must have been searching with the wrong keywords or something on google. Looks like they won't dig up anything and they should be able to fix the cable along a small wall i have out the front. |
Awesome! just ready for someone you upset one day to come along and cut that fucker with ease lol. |
Yeah, that could be a problem. I know its £99 to get fixed if its your fault and the cable is severed, not sure about vandalism.
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| Posted: Sat, 11th Apr 2009 19:12 Post subject: |
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The ISP will probably show up if you go to www.speedtest.net
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Apr 2009 03:32 Post subject: |
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Im with sky broadband, with the tv package thrown in. 16mb which im getting maxxed out as im like 2 mins down the road from the telephone exchange, unlimited usage (and i download shit loads) and been using it for about a year now and not had a single problem.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Apr 2009 19:18 Post subject: |
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im on sky where im living atm, get 12Mbps all the time.
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