Bob, my off peak was always 20:00-08:00 , I was quite happy to pay nearly £30 a month for my Fibre because of the quality I got from ADSL24 and the option if I wanted to to be able to download what ever I wanted at off peak times as I work night time and I am not even at home but thundering around the country in my truck. Of my 30GB allowance I was lucky some months to use a max of 10-12 gb and pretty much in the daytime would only use it to surf the www or read and send email.

Like I said this has been done really sneaky and I find it a little condescending of Paul to say that the customer does not have to be informed of everything they are planning, Duh we pay their wages and for their service and yes I DO expect to be informed of any such critical change of usage that may or not affect me!!

regards

Steve

Edited by stevepressman (Wed 19-Mar-14 23:08:59)

My peak with ADSL24 was 8am - 8pm, Mon - Fri (fibre 30 ultra) never got near my allowance, In fact i don't actually download that much, so to find I'm getting [censored] because someone want's to download all the 4k pron they can find is kind of annoying to say the least....

Edited by Cruncher (Wed 19-Mar-14 23:07:45)

I agree with communication. Its amazing how a little bit of info from a company can calm people down and helps keep everyone in the loop (not just talking an ISP either)

Thanks, got it working properly now!

Gaming just fine again. Not sure exactly when it starts but it clearly doesn't last as long as the quoted times for traffic management. Paul if you're reading this, please do look into this problem with Xbox Live assuming it is your side because while I can sympathize with what you're saying about the need for traffic management, having it stop me online gaming at such a critical time frame (8pm-10pm from what I have noticed so far) is simply unacceptable.

Send him a PM, he will see it then

Cruncher, I agree with you, however when we were with ADSL24 was your service the same as it is now or better than now? Because back then the same people as now were downloading the www off peak too and the odd occasion when I was at home during the evening when I had a night off I can honestly say hand on heart from 8pm until I would fall into bed about 2am time I never ever noticed any degrading of speed at all, so their argument doesn't really stack up does it, unless by some magic they suddenly found an extra few thousand extreme customers overnight when they took over ADSL24.

Regards

Steve

Edited by stevepressman (Wed 19-Mar-14 23:18:35)

All of ADSL24 customers peak usage was split (some had 8-8 others 8-12), now everyone of those are on 8-8 peak usage, so everyone has offpeak at the same time. And guess what, the packloss starts at 8.

So more are downloading during the busy time for the network than on adsl24

Oh thx for the heads up Bob I wan't aware of that difference in off peak times, I stand corrected then even so after midnight if and when these other off peakers came on line I never noticed any difference then though!

Steve

Think home users peak was 8- midnight and office was 8-8. I was on 8-midnight anway

Thing is at midnight its a quiet time for the network. Alot will be in bed, or wont be streaming much tv so the network has more capacity for the heavy downloaders. Trouble we see with coms is they allow heavy downloading off peak just as everyone has got home from work, had something to eat and is browsing/gaming/streaming. So something has to give

Edited by bobble_bob (Wed 19-Mar-14 23:38:10)

Thats a good website in that link, not heard of them before but seems good to know if you want to see if your isp traffic shapes

Or is it some software?

Edited by bobble_bob (Wed 19-Mar-14 23:44:52)