In reply to a post by orly:

Must be hard to ignore the truth

What part of the truth. ADSL24 to not block ports, do not shape and off-peak IS unlimited.

DrT

In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

In reply to a post by orly:

Must be hard to ignore the truth

What part of the truth. ADSL24 to not block ports, do not shape and off-peak IS unlimited.

Where's the ??

I agree to a large extent with what orly said about Zadek's post. The Anonymous poster made a perfectly sensible comment which should not be ignored.

ADSL24 is of course a perfectly reasonable recommendation by Zadek and yourself.

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Ignore Anonymous. Check out Zen, ADSL24, PlusNet, etc.

Of those ISPs above only plusnets FTTC is cheaper than BT (also traffic managed), the other two are more expensive for less allowance than BT.

Since I don't use P2P BT Infinity is fine for me, nothing else seems to be throttled.

Did you read the OP's post? He uses BitTorrent. PN will remove the shaping if one pays a little extra.

The only problem being that the peak time is 16 hours a day? It's very easy to say it's unshaped when you lock people down to tiny peak time allowances. Sounds like a form of rather aggressive throttling to me. We'll ignore the price too unless you go for the really low usage options.

My post was related to Zadeks telling the original poster to ignore people recommending BT. He keeps reappearing in these sorts of threads from time to time until I correct him on his flawed understanding of how the service works. Then he disappears for a while.

Edited by orly (Sat 10-Dec-11 15:33:08)

Exactly, what they give with one hand they take with the other.

This is why I am having such a hard time working out what ISP is best for me, none of them seem to offer what I am looking for apart from the likes of BT.

In reply to a post by Matt182:

Exactly, what they give with one hand they take with the other.

This is why I am having such a hard time working out what ISP is best for me, none of them seem to offer what I am looking for apart from the likes of BT.

Sounds like you need to start a new thread saying what you want to do on it . See if any of us can help, rather than confuse this one.

That was not my Intention, was just backing up what orly was saying that’s all

Yes I did and it is possible to get around the shaping on bitorrent on BT I believe. Which is probably what the anonymous poster was doing.

In reply to a post by orly:

The only problem being that the peak time is 16 hours a day? It's very easy to say it's unshaped when you lock people down to tiny peak time allowances. Sounds like a form of rather aggressive throttling to me. We'll ignore the price too unless you go for the really low usage options.

My peak time is 12 hrs a day on the Office pro with ADSL 24.

Throttling and shaping are IMHO no way similar or analogous to a full-speed peak time up front allowance. People choose their own peak-time allowances - you make is sound like the ISPs are doing something underhand.

DrT