IPStream or Datastream?

A friend is considering signing-up for ADSL service using an ISP
that provides using DataStream. Should he be advised against that? Is
an ISP that uses IPStream to be preferred?

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DB. wrote:
> A friend is considering signing-up for ADSL service using an ISP
> that provides using DataStream. Should he be advised against that?
> Is an ISP that uses IPStream to be preferred?

Perhaps this will answer your question

http://www.proweb.net/proweb_ipstream.html

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Paul King <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Perhaps this will answer your question
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> http://www.proweb.net/proweb_ipstream.html

Is there a list or easy way to find out who does what as far as IP or
DataStream is concerned?

All the best,
Tom
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DB. wrote:
> A friend is considering signing-up for ADSL service using an ISP
> that provides using DataStream. Should he be advised against that? Is
> an ISP that uses IPStream to be preferred?
>

From what I have seen of Datastream you should run very fast in the
opposite direction. V21 in particular have suffered since converting to
Telefonica. See their forums
http://www.v21.co.uk/forum/display_f...asp?ForumID=29

There is a thread here on ISPreview
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/show...0&page=1&pp=10

and have a look here
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/new/complain/complain.shtml

for the most complained about ISP's. All to my knowledge use datastream.

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On 13 Jan 2005 in uk.telecom.broadband, David G wrote:

>From what I have seen of Datastream you should run very fast in the
>opposite direction.

While I, as a user, of Tiscali's Datastream service, via another ISP for
billing, have no complaints and can run my 1000 kbps at full capacity if
I need to, for hours at a time. Not one for peer-to-peer, but streaming
films, webcams, audio/'radio' and binary news. Indeed, there've been a
few times when this PC has been "pulling" the full 1500 kbps available
(using both network connections I have).

If he wasn't too busy, perhaps Jason Clifford (who runs UKFSN) would be
happy to comment about the service reliability - he's the 'customer' of
Tiscali's "ISP to ISP" product and presumably would be losing customers
if there were significant/noticeable problems with the DataStream links



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DB. wrote:

> A friend is considering signing-up for ADSL service using an ISP
> that provides using DataStream. Should he be advised against that? Is
> an ISP that uses IPStream to be preferred?
>
The only difference is the way the adsl is delivered to the isp .With
IPstream it comes via a bt home-gateway router into the isp's network

Data-stream is delivered via ATM (in our case) which gives an isp more
control over contention bandwidth etc. I would also have thought that most
isp's use the same upstream bandwidth for both .

The most important question is one you cant answer until you have DSL. That
it how many people on your VP spend all day downloading and hogging the
pipe.
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