List of adsl isps that throttle (ellacoya)

1. Plusnet

> 1. Plusnet
2. Tiscali

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3. Pipex

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1. Plusnet
2. Tiscali
3. Pipex
4. Eclipse

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> 1. Plusnet

Is it 'throttling' if they offer a service that isnt throttled???

I remember many many years ago when broadband was pretty new, and BT were
charging £39.99 a month for a 512k service.
They claimed the service had no throttling, they swore blind, their staff
said, absolutely without doubt, no throttling at all. The guy in charge of
managing the openworld said there was no throttling.

It was only when someone developed a website which measured the throughput
on different ports, that BT changed their mind and came clean.

I dont like companies i do business with lying to me. I use BT for my phone
line because i have to, i dont enjoy it, and they have no customer loyalty
whatsoever.

Gaz

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> Is it 'throttling' if they offer a service that isnt throttled???
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> I remember many many years ago when broadband was pretty new, and BT were
> charging £39.99 a month for a 512k service.
> They claimed the service had no throttling, they swore blind, their staff
> said, absolutely without doubt, no throttling at all. The guy in charge of
> managing the openworld said there was no throttling.
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> It was only when someone developed a website which measured the throughput
> on different ports, that BT changed their mind and came clean.
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> I dont like companies i do business with lying to me. I use BT for my
> phone line because i have to, i dont enjoy it, and they have no customer
> loyalty whatsoever.

I was, at the time, one of the many who questioned BT's insistence that
they were not throttling ports, and I also recall the excellent website
which measured throughput which served to force BT to come clean.

I wonder if that site is still there?

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>1. Plusnet
>2. Tiscali
>3. Pipex
>4. Eclipse

5. Nildram
6. Freedom2Surf
7. Demon (during busy periods)

pipex, nildram & freedom2surf are all the same company anyway.

>>1. Plusnet
>>2. Tiscali
>>3. Pipex
>>4. Eclipse
> 5. Nildram
> 6. Freedom2Surf
> 7. Demon (during busy periods)
8. BT

"nick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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I think we need to draw a distinction between those ISP's that throttle all
the time for commercial reasons and those who might throttle in order to
prevent major network congestion occurring (e.g. during peak times).

Similarly any congested network will effectively throttle, since the
provisioning is inadequate to handle more load.

Of course I agree with other respondents in other threads that the worst
ISP's are those who lie to your face. As a classic example BT in its 'Loose
Interpretation of English and Standards' has maintained for many years that
it is not technically possible to run ISDN and ADSL over the same
connection. I am still waiting for the explanation as to why this has been
provided all over Germany for many years, but will not work a few hundred
kilometres away in the UK.

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> 1. Plusnet

Unless you're on their Broadband Pay-As-You-Go tariff, like me, which is
(allegedly) un-throttled.

George