Dsl problems

[Grall]

I think I'm spotting some Z-fighting where the roof tiles overlap.

 

[Malo]

Nice skybox though

 

[hoom]

Not a fan of the art direction

So did you get onto your ISP yet Davros?
If you don't tell them there is still a problem they're going to assume that its working OK.

 

[Davros]

not at the moment ive beeen watching a lot of streaming videos and gone way over my usage limits so I dont want them looking at my usage just now

 

[Grall]

You have useage limits? Why? Is the UK technologically backwards, outdated IR infrastructure or something? I thought this was 2011, and not like... 1999.

I'd suggest you switch ISP. Data caps on broadband connections aren't acceptable in this day and age.

 

[Davros]

I cant, most isp's want payment via direct debit

 

[Malo]

You have useage limits? Why? Is the UK technologically backwards, outdated IR infrastructure or something? I thought this was 2011, and not like... 1999.

I'd suggest you switch ISP. Data caps on broadband connections aren't acceptable in this day and age.

It depends on where you live. Australia had draconian usage caps 6 years ago when I lived there (don't believe it's massively different today), the average connection giving you 10-30gig usage before slowing you down to 56k modem speeds. It doesn't help when a majority of their traffic came via the US, and the US charges Australia per gb of data. The only free traffic is within your ISPs own data network or storage servers, and sometimes alliances of networks.

 

[Simon F]

You have useage limits? Why? Is the UK technologically backwards, outdated IR infrastructure or something? I thought this was 2011, and not like... 1999.

I'd suggest you switch ISP. Data caps on broadband connections aren't acceptable in this day and age.

But what are you paying per month? If a capped connection were significantly cheaper and you never (or rarely) hit the cap, then why be concerned about the cap?

FWIW, the service I'm on has a "cap" (well actually it's a prepaid limit after which you get basically get charged (at the same rate) for each additional "block" of data) during peak-hours, but off-peak is unlimited.

 

[hoom]

Over here 80% of traffic goes international & we have the longest cables to get international -> expensive cables -> expensive bandwidth -> can't practically do uncapped plans.

We did try it about 2006-7 but a high proportion of users were costing about 6* what they were paying -> no more.

ISPs pay fixed bandwidth not per GB though so when cable company upgrades their lasers/makes bandwidth cheaper then data plans can go up.