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he should be toning down

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Is that pun intentional?

he,he,he, best read ive had in ages, still playing that same old tune on that broken fiddle,if they tell this many lies over an argument they can`t possibly win....what will they be like when youve got a problem!

Err....What "lies"? I see no lies (well, not on my part, or Entanet, anyway).

Apart from when Entanet first switched on the ALT (for live testing), when they didn't give prior warning (they've explained it needed "real life" testing, and if they'd have given everybody advance warning, the usage patterns may well have changed - most Entanet customers accepted this explanation, and it's still better than BT's "there is a fault", when BT tried to explain why http was being throttled to a few hundred kbps).

Care to elaborate further on these "lies"?

I would rather be able to download at 4.6 mbit/s than have the speed on certain protocols restricted all the time as is the wont of some ISPs

Exactly why I've stayed put for over a year (never done that before).
For an ISP (using IPstream) which such high usage allowances, it's nice to be able to download faster than 2Mbps 24/7 (and mostly at the full speed of my line, 3500kbps profile).
Until switching to Entanet, I've never managed to get more than 400-800kbps between 6pm - midnight.
So, you're right, 4.6Mbps, across all protocols, with Entanet, is still a hell of a lot better than all but the most expensive ISPs, or those with low allowances.

Although I don't do much online gaming, Entanet's method of preserving pings (pretty much the same 24/7) is a real bonus (especially when you're playing against someone on a BT or AOL connection, and their ping has just gone through the roof).
It's good for VOIP, too.

The only reason they will have the activation fee is because they offer a one months contract.

The ISP will still get charged

Is this argument ever going to end? I was with Nildram for over 4 years & recently they started throttling P2P & Newsgroup, they only owned up to doing it after complaints on these forums by disgusted customers. Now they only throttle when capacity is reaching its limits. I migrated to UKFSN after it became almost certain that Pipex/Nildram etc were going to be part of Tiscali at least I can see the loading on the centrals & see which one I'm on... never had that with an ISP before. The ALT/throttling tool whatever you want to call it works fine for me, I get the fastest P2P or Newsgroup downloads I have ever seen even when ALT kicks in & Nildram was not by any means slow. I have a great gaming connection at any time of day, last night I was running a server from 8.00pm-10.45pm & you certainly could not tell when the 'ALT' kicked in at 10pm (when the off peak downloading frenzy starts)

You can argue all you like about ALT, I don't really care as my connection does exactly what I want it to do, If things change then I will look around for something better but hopefully I will be here for a long time.

Good evening Tony,

Long time no speak

So we can all agree that Entanet Do throttle. Are we all happy with this?



Ta,

Mark

Hi mark - trust you are keeping well?

I think we can now all agree that Enatnet do throttle.

Yep, they do

ps. must add in a way that ensures "ALL" users get the same speed if there are issues with the centrals etc.

Don't call me Fan Boy here Tony - but in all honestly I've never seen under 2 Meg and only after 10pm on a weeknight

Edited by deleted (Fri 03-Aug-07 23:46:53)

God. You've done Entanet to death and now you're starting on this new company Enatnet - what have Enatnet done to you?