In reply to a post by Neil_A:

Timico already sort of own Coms Telecom

So Timco is sort of responsible for the whole mess.

I am very happy to report that I have now received an excellent response from the first man supposedly to walk on the moon (still not entirely sure about that one Neil) and it does seem that Timico is from a totally different planet than Coms (the moon I guess). So I'm going to stick with these guys for now and see how things pan out.

I hope he didn't Strongarm you.

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow the bulk of Coms broadband customers with TalkTalk SMPF and MPF lines will move across onto the Timico network.

This will happen in 11 batches (according to realm) starting 10am and continuing until 3pm.
Customer usernames and passwords will remain the same.
We're expecting connections to drop for a max of 5 mins and then re-authenticate automatically but we'll be keeping a close eye on things.

If you have problems please contact us by email or phone - details here> http://www.timico.co.uk/contact-us and make sure you say you're a Coms broadband customer.

We'll be keeping a very close eye on things....

Take it this isnt like a normal migration then from 1 provider to another, as the time they happen are usually outside the control of the ISP and up to BTw when they get around to it in the day?

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 03-Aug-15 15:54:45)

Indeed. We're doing a realm shift where all users and all traffic on each realm will move at once. Basically TalkTalk just update their databases and push the new config to the switches and point traffic at Timico instead of Coms. 11 different realms to shift, each one being done in turn.

Neil, can I ask you this. In your 'Network Management Policy' it states that "certain non-business applications such as peer-to-peer (P2P) may be deprioritised. This allows us to maintain quality of service for business applications such as VoIP, email and web browsing."

Bit worried about that. I do a fair bit of data swapping between computers using Dropbox and a fair bit of web 'scraping' into Excel as well. I also have a live feed updating prices at a rate of 20 updates/sec. Will these be under threat?

Edited by deleted (Tue 04-Aug-15 09:36:02)

LOL

Certainly under less threat than they are/were with COMS.

Your usage is possibly http (classified as web browsing) anyway. I admit I haven't checked what RSS feeds use.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 04-Aug-15 10:51:32)

Coms as a communication company used to block voice chat if it used p2p protocols. The irony

Well the live feed is a direct link to a website API so don't know what that counts as.