ISP for large usenet downloads

nordberg

I'm on F2S too. They were good up until about 1 month ago when Pipex started governing things a bit more proactively. They are now shaping big time. My Usenet downloads used to be a nice steady 235 KB/s. Now I'm lucky if I get 1/3 that. I'll be moving to Zen when I return from my hols.

mrcol

mjfusent wrote:

do you (or anyone) know how the retention is on their own usenet servers??

About a week when things are working ok. Its been a little flakey just recently, they had some problem or other but usually its ok.
Its better than your old isp at three days, if its the isp i think it is, i left too for Zen three months ago.

wolfman

wonderfullife wrote:

Its the Connect Plus package @ 24.99 now it use to be unlimited, but I've heard they've put a fair usage policy on of 100gb a month, although I have never been made aware of this by f2s.

Yeah...you'll get an email if you download that much... basically telling you you're a heavy user and to cut down on the usage. It was implemented a while back, but I can't remember it being mentioned publicly, I think they just snuck it into the t's and c's somewhere.

Also F2S have said they're implementing traffic shaping. Basically gives less priority to downloads and more for general browsing, so may effect you download speed.

charlieheard

Tisali have unlimited broadband with a pretty good Fair Usage Policy

Tiscali_Fair_Usage_Policy wrote:

This fair usage policy automatically identifies the very small number of extremely heavy users and manages their bandwidth only during peak hours (6pm to 11pm Monday to Sunday), to protect the service for all our other customers. Outside peak hours, the use of the internet by these heavy users is unaffected...

...If you are affected, we will contact you by email ...

...During peak hours, customers affected by the fair usage policy will share bandwidth with each other and will be separated from other customers. The amount of bandwidth available for affected customers to share, will be at least as much as for those customers unaffected by the policy.

So you just run at full throttle, and you'll be constrained during peak hours. £14.99 for 1Mb, if you can live wih their service levels... :think:

mr_fishbulb

UKonline have a limit of 500Gig/month apparently.