If they implement it full time then they are priced way too high against similar offerings from competitors. People are going to migrate en mass.

How many of its thousands of customers use usenet/p2p and know about this throttle? I think people who visit these forums are more tech savvy and more likely to use usenet/p2p, and besides weonly represent a tiny fraction of the overall userbase

Same here on bittorrent.

36mb throttled to 0.5mb. Rather excessive I think a reasonable person would agree?

Agree with what someone said above, seems like a cynical ploy from COMS to get rid of some of the heavy users.

Extracting the Urine is what it is.

If that was the case they would have throttled from the off. Few things havent helped the situation. First being changed of allowance and peak hours, and more people moving to fibre meaning they can transfer alot more data than they ever could on ADSL.

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 24-Mar-14 18:44:23)

Ah ok - I was just migrated last week.

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

First being changed of allowance and peak hours, and more people moving to fibre meaning they can transfer alot more data than they ever could on ADSL.

so why throttle us users on adsl? Or cant they differentiate?

They could just have a throttle at same 8 mbps or something, and who knows after the testing is over lets see what Paul comes back with

Doesnt seem to work like that tho, throttling is throttling, and unacceptable to my mind. I think there is more to it, congestion and all sorts. I have pm`d Vivaciti and they are actively trying to sort these migration issues and putting an inclusive package together. In which case I shall be off.

I have been with ADSL4 almost from the start, and rarely had a problem, But slowdowns started as soon as migrated over to Coms network.
I cannot see things being much different sadly.

All depends how you use the network. Admittedly if you use usenet/p2p are then yes you're like to be screwed to some degree once the testing is over. For others who dont use it as much if at all, then its less of an issue

How many of its thousands of customers use usenet/p2p and know about this throttle? I think people who visit these forums are more tech savvy and more likely to use usenet/p2p, and besides weonly represent a tiny fraction of the overall userbase

ADSL24, and now Coms, were/are more expensive than the usual suspects (Plusnet, Sky, BT, etc). With ADSL24 that was because of the quality of service. Tech savvy users were willing to pay the premium because of that. I'd hazard a guess that a far higher percentage of ADSL24's users are tech savvy than those on Plusnet etc.

I'd say Coms destroying ADSL24's legacy is indeed going to lose them a lot of users if service remains poor and indeed gets even worse.

Regarding Ofcom you raise an important point, the code is voluntary and neither Coms or ADSL24 were signatories to the 2010 code. I will put this right by signing Coms up to the code http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/codes-of-p... as well as ensuring we have measures in place to manage and monitor our compliance to the code.

That's obviously not the point I was making.

Maybe the OFT (Office of Fair Trading) is a better option then; after all, you have promised a level of service that we are paying for and not getting.