It is interesting to see that since Mandys plans, the opposition has now started talking so loudly. In the past few weeks alone we have had ISPs speak out, MPs speak out, musicians are speaking out, etc...
Lets hope the government get the message and give the copyright cartel the middle finger! Perhaps the UK could put itself in a position to lead the way in developing working business models for these industries that don't rely upon fear and criminalising fans.
The reason I have a problem is usually because these traffic shaping issues affect my usage patterns. I recently moved to O2 who had no shaping on their network, however they have recently employed it. I now have been forced into using a VPN most of the time to overcome this - else I find that what used to take 1-2 hours suddenly takes 6.
At the end of the day, if I am paying for an 8Mb connection (and getting pretty close on the line speed) then why should I not be able to use it at its maximum capacity 24/7.
I have also fallen foul of caps that ISP's place on their packages under "fair use policy's" - even without telling you what the cap is. My last provider was 40Gb per month - though they never had that in writing anywhere and would not put it into writing. On an 8Mb line this is under 20 hours usage - what are we supposed to do for the remainder of the month?
OK - a case I experienced over the weekend... I needed a particular diagnostics CD for working on a friends computer. I launched my newsreader using my parents broadband (as they live in the same town as my friend) and managed a rather poor 35Kb/s download speed. I then connected via VPN and using the same newsreader was getting near 600Kb/s. There are no firewall issues etc.. simply the traffic shaping employed by TalkTalk (which didn't affect the encrypted VPN)
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Lets hope the government get the message and give the copyright cartel the middle finger! Perhaps the UK could put itself in a position to lead the way in developing working business models for these industries that don't rely upon fear and criminalising fans.
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At the end of the day, if I am paying for an 8Mb connection (and getting pretty close on the line speed) then why should I not be able to use it at its maximum capacity 24/7.
I have also fallen foul of caps that ISP's place on their packages under "fair use policy's" - even without telling you what the cap is. My last provider was 40Gb per month - though they never had that in writing anywhere and would not put it into writing. On an 8Mb line this is under 20 hours usage - what are we supposed to do for the remainder of the month?
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