In reply to a post by VWGolfman:

Yes that's right and in fact BT are already able to do this.

No way am I going back to having anything to do with BT! Even if we ever get fibre into my rural exchange.

The line from the exchange to you is BT Openreach.

In reply to a post by PaulComs:

We are looking at what options there might be for an service that caters for those users who want to use p2p and similar.

Like pay more money for an unthrottled service like we already had with ADSL24 perhaps? (and already pay a premium for)

The thing that really gets me about coms is that they must have known the situation when they took over adsl24. Why did they think people were prepared to pay the additional premium for their adsl24 service?

I enjoyed my time with adsl24, but how this has been handled, has led me to migrate which is unfortunate.

Whatever the policy is, be nice to know what the throttle rate will be.

Anyone else getting around 20kbps on usenet?

As somebody who really only use the Web, I'm pretty peed off that my priority will be third in the pile. Logic says the majority of users will use the web first...

Sorry Paul, my speeds have got much slower recently for general web browsing. I can go almost anywhere Isp wise and get an unthrottled web service. Why should I pay extra for a fundamental basic service????????

As much as I would prefer to stay with Coms, once fibre comes here in June, I shall be off - as there isnt anything to make me stay is there???

woody

Regarding web traffic i asked him about this at got this reply

No we won't be slowing web traffic but will be boosting voice and gaming.

So maybe it works in the same way that plusnet do, where if you use a streaming service and browse the web at the same time, the streaming stuff will take priority?

I'm getting a blistering 25kB/s.....

....On my supposedly unthrottled 80Mb FTTC connection....


[censored] you very much Coms.

Fair play to Paul who answered my pm about problems today, though I am sad to say that my new bill got messed up, again. The billing department said that I have been "upgraded" to the Coms service. Not the upgrade I had in mind but I will hold on a little longer to see, if it gets sorted. However I am getting tired of sending pms, just for another issue to come up after. Just makes me appreciate now what an excellent service ADSL24 provided and so sad that they are gone. It makes me think how could they provide such an excellent service at the price when a Stocklisted company seemingly can't.

Edited by deleted (Wed 26-Mar-14 20:05:39)

In reply to a post by Cruncher:

I'm getting a blistering 25kB/s.....

....On my supposedly unthrottled 80Mb FTTC connection....


[censored] you very much Coms.

I feel for you