retired_superpenners

I would stay with AOL tbh if you think Virgin are any better.

Its 7pm and on my 20mb connection the best I can get is less than 1mb. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Are you saying that you get 1mb+ download rates outside of peak hours? :o </BLOCKQUOTE>

If I get up at 4am and do my internetting I can usually hit the full speed. If I try and do anything between 4pm and 11pm I get usually the same speed as dial-up and I'm paying £37 a month for it too.

retired_el_chanclas

Australia has already had the big fight over "Unlimited*".

Here you cannot use the word unlimited if you speed limit it in anyway.

However, there is a new looming problem for users, that being the new wave of ISP's counting uploads, when previously only the biggest ISP "Telstra" (because their userbase are technologically retarded and basically see the saturation TV ads for "broadband" and get stuck on a 256k 200mb plan for 2 years), and the ultra-ripoff Dodo company, now we have the other major ISP (Optus), as well as other smaller companies.

The 2nd lot is "peer to peer" shaping. This has also heavily increased, very few companies had even thought of this last year, but I had to leave both the ISP's I was with, the first because they shaped p2p speeds to unacceptable speeds, and the second because they decided to put the price up $40 into the 2nd month I was with them.

I'm now with an ISP on ADSL2+ that neither counts uploads, or shapes p2p. I get 40gb peak (7am-1am) and a big 110gb between 1am and 7am for $70 (30gpb).

The drawback is a slightly less reliable network, and offshore based tech support (which I don't use much).

retired_eddyloin

whs. I assume that they have a FUP if you're a heavy downloader, but I've not had it yet. Very cheap, too. Their provided modem does seem to hang every couple of days, though, but that's a minor problem.

retired_dawn12302

I'm with prong on this.

retired_dawn12302

I believe so, yes.