Pipex

[Starko]

Now, I've been having trouble with these cunts for the past 6 months (before that everything was fine...150kb/s torrents up and down, insane buffer speeds on youtube and place)... but last night was the worst it has ever been.

I am meant to have an 2meg line.

Last night I was;

Downloading PES6 - Down = 20kb Up = 25kb/s (those figures are stuck, i have no idea why...even though it is set to No Limit in the client and the ports are forwarded perfectly)
on IRC
on MSN
on Xfire
and had the Index of the Forum Open.

everyone can agree that really this is piss all usage in comparrison to play a game online.

I got kicked from IRC 5 times for too high ping...it was infact registering at over 2seconds = 2000ms
The connection dropped out from MSN and Xfire many times
New webpages....even moving between boards on the forum...had to be reloaded a good 4-5 times to make them work properly.

As such I got fucked off and sent them a very angry email, and if i wasn't going to be out for the next two days i'd be constantly on the phone trying to find out what the fuck is up with it.

So yea...question is...does anyone else live around the Reading/Tadley/Basingstoke area and has Pipex...and are you getting the same problem...or do you just have Pipex and have the same problem?

[Firo]

I've been getting the same sort of problems with mine lately, I live around wakefield west yorkshire though and my isp is eclipse... just put it down to bt being absolutely fucking wank.

[Starko]

i would...but everyone else i know around here is fine.

i get the feeling i've been blacklisted or something....but even 6 months ago i was only downloading maybe 5 gigs a month....of torrents that is...gaming and everything probably pushed it upto nearer 10.

must quite honestly thats fucked.

[Zadokk]

Some ISPs limit your download and upload speeds if you exceed your bandwidth allowance.

[Starko]

i don't have one though....

[Marc]

ive somehow exceeded 30 gig a month when i havent even downloaded shit <!-- s:| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_neutral.gif" alt="Neutral" title="Neutral" /><!-- s:| --> i have 1 black mark on my account and think karoo just pissing me off for shits n giggles <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

[Cieto]

[quote=&quot;Marc&quot;:51536]
ive somehow exceeded 30 gig a month when i havent even downloaded shit <!-- s:| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_neutral.gif" alt="Neutral" title="Neutral" /><!-- s:| --> i have 1 black mark on my account and think karoo just pissing me off for shits n giggles <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->
[/quote:51536]

i think you're forgetting about downloading gigs upon gigs of pr0n whilst drunk

[Starko]

[quote=&quot;Cieto&quot;:51ebf]
[quote=&quot;Marc&quot;:51ebf]
ive somehow exceeded 30 gig a month when i havent even downloaded shit <!-- s:| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_neutral.gif" alt="Neutral" title="Neutral" /><!-- s:| --> i have 1 black mark on my account and think karoo just pissing me off for shits n giggles <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->
[/quote:51ebf]

i think you're forgetting about downloading gigs upon gigs of pr0n whilst drunk[/quote:51ebf]

yea...most of it is midgit pr0n.

seriously talking to this guy at 4am on msn is never any good.

[Marc]

[quote=&quot;Starko&quot;:ebe2b]
[quote=&quot;Cieto&quot;:ebe2b]
[quote=&quot;Marc&quot;:ebe2b]
ive somehow exceeded 30 gig a month when i havent even downloaded shit <!-- s:| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_neutral.gif" alt="Neutral" title="Neutral" /><!-- s:| --> i have 1 black mark on my account and think karoo just pissing me off for shits n giggles <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->
[/quote:ebe2b]

i think you're forgetting about downloading gigs upon gigs of pr0n whilst drunk[/quote:ebe2b]

yea...most of it is midgit pr0n.

seriously talking to this guy at 4am on msn is never any good.[/quote:ebe2b]
talking to moi at 4am isnt good? lies! blasphemy! anyway.. i watch alot of streamed videos of the net &gt;.&gt; and also games etc. this month apparently ive raked up 9.8gig so okish so far.

[Marc]

[quote=&quot;Starko&quot;:ebe2b]
[quote=&quot;Cieto&quot;:ebe2b]
[quote=&quot;Marc&quot;:ebe2b]
ive somehow exceeded 30 gig a month when i havent even downloaded shit <!-- s:| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_neutral.gif" alt="Neutral" title="Neutral" /><!-- s:| --> i have 1 black mark on my account and think karoo just pissing me off for shits n giggles <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->
[/quote:ebe2b]

i think you're forgetting about downloading gigs upon gigs of pr0n whilst drunk[/quote:ebe2b]

yea...most of it is midgit pr0n.

seriously talking to this guy at 4am on msn is never any good.[/quote:ebe2b]
talking to moi at 4am isnt good? lies! blasphemy! anyway.. i watch alot of streamed videos of the net &gt;.&gt; and also games etc. this month apparently ive raked up 9.8gig so okish so far.

[imported_hinch]

i've just swapped to pipex from plusnet for the reasons of plusnet usage limits and shite network performance.

now pipex have been no better on network performance recently and as someone else said they're on eclipse and its being shite only unifying theory between them all is BT's backbone i'm guessing its starting to get a little overloaded

[Marc]

hinch ur rich make ur own uber fast backbone, go go go go <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

[Malakitin]

well i got the same problems with pipex, from what i hear they throttle the P2P system, im on 8mb Max and get connection speeds of around 500k to 6500k, mostly 500k - 1500k.

Its shit!!!

[Starko]

still 50x faster than mine on a line that is only 4x as fast....grrrrrr <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="Razz" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->

[Starko]

[quote=&quot;Imbaatu&quot;:03391]
Best lay off the midget pr0n for a while then matey
[/quote:03391]

its gonna be a long few months <!-- s:cry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt="Crying or Very sad" title="Crying or Very sad" /><!-- s:cry: -->

[Firo]

Or just get a decent isp that won't mess with your connection. I had that crappy fair use policy for a bit and had to switch to a business connection just to stop it :/

[Dalif]

Does all ISPs in the UK have download limits? Must suck a fair bit tbh.

15G a month is okish, if you're a casual downloader. But it's bound to be shit, if you're even remotely active in any form of p2p community.

Happily I don't have those kinds of problems. Just got upgraded from 2mbit to 5mbit for free, because the fucktards at my ISP kept changing my IP around. An angry letter and threats of suicide bombing their HQ, I was 3mbit the richer.

[Agi'nor]

[b:7faf5]NTL soon to be virgin media &gt; all[/b:7faf5]

[Qula]

Why does no one go with like BTyahoo? it pwns all other ISP's

[Salva]

im with btyahoo but only because its the only connection i can get where i live =/ paying some stupid amount a month also for the best package as its the only package with no dl limits...

[Zadokk]

[quote=&quot;Dalif&quot;:88837]
Does all ISPs in the UK have download limits? Must suck a fair bit tbh.

15G a month is okish, if you're a casual downloader. But it's bound to be shit, if you're even remotely active in any form of p2p community.

Happily I don't have those kinds of problems. Just got upgraded from 2mbit to 5mbit for free, because the fucktards at my ISP kept changing my IP around. An angry letter and threats of suicide bombing their HQ, I was 3mbit the richer.
[/quote:88837]

Unfortunately, England's telephone infrastructure is very old and the laying of new cables here is notoriously slow. All home user accounts offered by ISPs come with either a fair use policy (an unspecified cap) or a bandwidth allowance (a specified cap).

It's funny you should mention writing angry letters because I read a story in the paper a couple of months ago where one man phone up his ISP to cancel and they offered him 25% off his bill to stay. The fact is, ANYONE could call up and make a song and dance and get a discount - especially if you've been with that company for years.

[Smock]

It seems to be going the way dial-up did. usage caps. network monitoring.

Cheap ISP's just aren't worth it if you're a serious internet user.

I'm glad i signed up to zen's home 2000 when I did, it's now no longer available.

100gb cap <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="Cool" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->

[Marc]

i have no download limits they just dont like me downloading alot. last month got 31 gig, month before 27gig. this month meh i have no idea why its so high considering theres only my comp on the network and i stoped downloading 2 weeks ago from lack of hdd space <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

[Dalif]

Somebody is using your comp as a spam server :p

[Marc]

[quote=&quot;Dalif&quot;:29545]
Somebody is using your comp as a spam server :p
[/quote:29545]
my comp is clean, no virus's n spyware.. but meh i do watch alot of stuff on net instead of watching tv so mght be that..