Im sure there is something wrong with your line Steve. Looking at my graph hardly any packet loss and hasnt been since the traffic management came in place. I know you use P2P which will probably will cause abit, but 75-100% packet loss ive not seen on my logs for weeks now

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 31-Mar-14 23:13:36)

You might be right Bob. I showed it to Paul Coms in a Pm and he even says there is something not right and will have it investigated. Wait and see wait he comes back with. It is bad is all I know and renders my service useless like that!!

Steve

Let me know if you get it sorted.

Woops forgot that Rob duly corrected

Steve

Hm, why do I find myself saying ' I told you so'? It's the same old same old in this country I'm afraid, we have all sorts of consumer regulations and bodies to 'regulate' them and it means squit, companies change the game as they go along and the poor consumer gets slapped and finds they can't do anything about it. Ripoff UK is alive and well. I've just been trying to get the OFT to do something about enforcing the Distance Selling Regs, just as well bash my head against a wall as unless one is amongst the snoots they don't wanna know. Abide by contracts? Give people what they pay for? No chance.

So having had a great ISP we're now on one with a service that is being throttled and is unreliable. We've gone from being told that we can download what we want off-peak as it's not metered to now being told that a fair use policy is in place that er means we can't actually download what we want at all. Just waiting now then for the 'personal emails' to all heavy users threatening them with eviction for downloading during unmetered hours and then of course who wants to bet the price is going to be put up to? Oh happy days, have I been here (many times) before.

+1

On a bigger picture, it comes back to the haves and have nots, the 1% who own and control everything and the 99% who don't.
But that will change soon... Either the 99% will institute a change where its common sense and fair for all or... well.. have your surfboard handy!

Must confess the throttling doesn't affect me at all, BUT ordinary browsing is slower, real DNS problems, but the biggest single thing for me is the total lack of public communication, changing dates and details, and smoke and mirror answers. I really feel that all trust has gone in Coms.
As somebody who has always stayed with the little ISPs, I'm just not used to it nor do I like it!

Woody

When you say slow browsing, do you mean the web page serms to hang for a few seconds before loading?

Thanks Paul, I hope this means Netflix and iPlayer will now work reliably again!

In reply to a post by My_brain_hurts:

I've just been trying to get the OFT to do something about enforcing the Distance Selling Regs, just as well bash my head against a wall as unless one is amongst the snoots they don't wanna know.

That's not too surprising. It ceased to exist yesterday.

So they wouldn't have been able to follow up, and everyone still there would be more bothered about getting a job and/or clearing their desk.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 01-Apr-14 12:00:55)