I run a modified newznab indexer and pull compressed headers from astra from teevee & etc.
Not exactly a huge amount of data.

I'm fed up of evening updates not connecting/socket errors/etc.

You're right, this isn't throttling, it's blocking... and I'm out.

5kb/sec on p2p tonight.

I wonder if I can find an old 56k modem to use.

I'm currently at 2kb/s Coms will you please look into your hearts, find your compassion and bump me back up to 5kb/s? That way my download will be complete in 1 day and 20 hours instead of the estimated 3 and a half days.

mines is certainly constricted but not as bad as you lot getting 500kB/s got about 1mb/s back on adsl24, hope it gets fixed, pain in the ass to change all my email

At the moment, I'm just (trying to) retrieve headers from my subscribed newsgroups.

I'm getting less than 1KB/sec.

I built my first PC in 1997 and had a 56K modem. Needless to say, my download speeds then were faster than what I am experiencing now... 17 years later.

Lol I just started downloading Kali Linux via torrent to see how bad things were and estimated time to download is 1 week and 1 day... Coms sure do spoil us with their "robust" service.

Edited by deleted (Sat 12-Apr-14 12:56:52)

Having been an ADSL24 customer for over 5 years, when the service & speed went down hill recently I happened to stumble on this forum & COMS related threads.

ADSL24 has been brilliant but now as per a lot of other people on here I'm no looking around at other available ISP's (I'm completely out of touch having been so satisfied with ADSL24!).

In any case, I opened a new case via the COMS user control panel and got the following response:

Good Morning,
A basic policy set was deployed to:
� Prioritise real-time traffic during peak time (18:00-00:00 weekdays; 10:00-00:00 weekends) e.g. VoIP, gaming, video etc. to ensure a consistent user experience
� De-prioritise peer-to-peer traffic outside of off-peak (00:00-07:00 daily)
� Ultimately reduce to peer-to-peer traffic during peak time to reduce 95th percentile bandwidth consumption.

This seems to be more information that I've seen posted on here so I thought I would share. Plus, I'm not sure how they can change the terms of the contract without some kind of notification...?

Makes you wonder why they had to start putzing about when ADSL 24 was so perfect. I left just after the takeover as I was not happy about reding about it here.

I can throughly recommend Xilo to the ex-ADSL24-ers that wish to move. I have my web hosing with them too. Support via ticket is like IM. I am a difficult so-and-so to please too.

If Xilo get bought out by the shower that is Coms, I'll probably join Zen. I always plan ahead.

Yeah I'm going with Xilo, sent a few different ISPs an email to test the waters and the response from Xilo was lightning fast. It's good to hear Zen are still up there, I remember back when I first looked for a broadband provider 10 or so years ago and Zen were considered one of the best back then too.

Thanks I've seen Xilo mentioned a few times. I assume they are on a par with the old ADSL24 (in terms of not throttling or shaping etc)?