Highlander,

I do totally agree with you, and suspect many others are just as peed off, not totally due to the changes, but the very poor communication over them. I have written privately to Paul in the past and said how important it was to keep up the comms on here.

I have also written and said how poor it is to keep giving dates or saying we'll hear "tomorrow" and then yet again we here nothing.

I will not divulge his replies, and I am grateful for him stepping in to try and improve my own stats - which to a point has worked, but sadly I must admit I get more dissalussioned every day especially not knowing where we are and what is happening.

Woody

Just thought I'd check the throttle speeds... 6kbps!!!
Yep,a blistering 6kbps!

So, what, dial up would be 5 -6 times *faster* than what Coms has us locked down to. Unbelievable!

Just when you thought it can't get any worse from this shower of incompetent fools...

You alone can fix this problem. Why you have not is a mystery.

It will be fixed come next week, you can be sure of that!

Well now we really are gimped to dial up speeds. No open communication on here, no emails, nothing clearly visible on their main website, nothing on their twitter account and now we find out that they are sending passwords in plain text? What an absolute joke of a company, they should be ashamed of themselves for taking over and ruining the legacy of such a great ISP like ADSL24.

Heh ... good luck ... and I'm glad that you weren't stuck on a 12 month contract, that would be pretty tough in the current situation.

Well, first post on here for many years. Luckily i got my MAC over the weekend and, along with many others I jumped ship, only another week of this.

Our speed is capped at an unbelievable 5kb/ps. If I hadn't seen it myself I would never have believed it possible in 2014.

H

In reply to a post by Hamster1962:

Our speed is capped at an unbelievable 5kb/ps. If I hadn't seen it myself I would never have believed it possible in 2014.

I am not a P2P'er (not at the moment at least, though I did a lot with ADSL24 and it was always fulll speed) but I do sympathise with you who do as from what I can see the level of throttling is far too excessive. It might as well be stated that p2p is blocked given the neglible bandwidth it is allocated.

It could be of course, that Coms do not have the capacity and are not willing to spend any more to increaase it. What very limited bandwidth is left over for p2p would suggest that their pipes are at full capacity.

On the other side of the coin though, I am a gamer, I voip and skype, I stream FLAC at 1Mb/s, use iplayer... and they all work fine.

Paul told me that coms have over 5000 customers. Of that 50 are heavy p2p/usenet users, and 150 use it now and again. So im sure they dont mind if they lost those 50 or so heavy users

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

Paul told me that coms have over 5000 customers. Of that 50 are heavy p2p/usenet users, and 150 use it now and again. So im sure they dont mind if they lost those 50 or so heavy users

Yeah I agree with that Bob. However don't they realise that they are seriously pi**ing off
the lower useage users that they would like to keep due to their actions.
I probably do one P2P download a month and that's only likely to be 200 MB but the way they are implementing this still riles me.

James what have you done?