Would you care to link us to a post, say within the last month or two, from an "Entanet Fanboy" claiming the ALT doesn't exist?

When Entanet's throttling was first introduced - Entanet didn't even tell it's customers (i.e. Entanet didn't even inform their own resellers such as ADSL24) for about 3 days after they introduced it.

It could have been worse....They could have throttled http down to a fraction of the connection speed, and spent the next month claiming it was "a fault"!

Sky doesn't throttle their customers at all.

Cannot comment on Sky.
On the other LLU company you're always recommending (even to people that can't get LLU)....BE There......They do throttle.
This afternoon, I tried a speedtest on our 10.5Mbps connection.....5.7Mbps.
A few hours later.....8.2Mbps.
Both below the maximum throughput from a 10.5Mbps sync.

So, BE are by your definition (by the nature of their network, not making maximum speed available)....Throttling.
Best you stop recommending them, and put them onto the S**T pile, along with Entanet

I was reminding the poster of his own words.

OK . I didn't realise that.

Can't see where on a quick look though. And they don't - so wherever he said it he was incorrect.

I never said it actually but we all make mistakes.

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Sky doesn't throttle their customers at all

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I was under the impression they did on the BTW connect product.

Regarding Entanet not advising customers/resellers about the ALT. I remember this. I was annoyed at the time, as were other users & resellers. Enta said they had to test the equipment under real load conditions and that letting the cat out of the bag may have put this plan into jeopardy. You know what, I think it was quite a valid point and the ALT turned out to be a good thing, not a bad thing like a lot of us feared.

In any case right or wrong, I think I could forgive Enta this one communication blip. They have to be about the most open ISP there is in regard to the performance/capacity of their network. Did BT et al give advance warning of their throttling plans?

The "Fan Boy" tag you are slapping on posters is getting a bit tiresome incidentally. It does not take a genius to figure out ISPs tend to have "fan boys" when they are good. I remember when Plusnet was the fan boy ISP. The fan boys soon stopped praising them when they were no longer a good ISP. I have no doubt if Entanet ever turn bad a similar thing will happen. I certainly wouldn't praise an ISP if there was no good reason to do so, and I'm sure I wouldn't be alone.

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I was waiting for him to link to where I said it to back up his silliness.

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TK - you will have noticed in general I am backing you up on this subject all over the place.

However, I have great respect for John, and you should also if you read his excellent helpful posts to many people.

A simple mistake just not justify even the mildest personal abuse of this kind. You could have pointed out his error politely just as I did.

Edited by RobertoS (Thu 02-Aug-07 23:25:32)

a qualified constuctive reply - thanks for some sanity

kind of defines the differences between the respondants
one one hand we have hostile criticism, on the other we have a considered opinion
stated in an earnest attempt to support and resolve an issue raised