Tiscali + FUP + VoIP?

Hi All,

Now we all know Tiscali have their Fair Use Policy (FUP) in place between
6pm and 11pm every evening, but does anyone know if the FUP disallows the
use of VoIP telephone calls? I ask because recently we had VoIP installed
on the LAN and I am now wondering if Tiscali will be targetting us for using
VoIP in the evenings? Can anyone comment if you know that the FUP means you
cannot use VoIP between 6pm and 11pm?

Thanks

Tony

I have tried using voip during the times mentioned.

Because of the very poor service that I get from tiscali, Voip has been
unusable, apart from early in the day.

In fact, I'm thinking of paying tiscali for the remainder of my 12 months
just to get rid of them.


John DH



"Tony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi All,
>
> Now we all know Tiscali have their Fair Use Policy (FUP) in place between
> 6pm and 11pm every evening, but does anyone know if the FUP disallows the
> use of VoIP telephone calls? I ask because recently we had VoIP installed
> on the LAN and I am now wondering if Tiscali will be targetting us for
using
> VoIP in the evenings? Can anyone comment if you know that the FUP means
you
> cannot use VoIP between 6pm and 11pm?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>
>
>

"John DH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:43c62679$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have tried using voip during the times mentioned.
>
> Because of the very poor service that I get from tiscali, Voip has been
> unusable, apart from early in the day.
>
> In fact, I'm thinking of paying tiscali for the remainder of my 12 months
> just to get rid of them.
>
>
> John DH
>

Yes but do they ban the use of Vo-IP as part of the Fair Use Policy? If
they do, then you wouldn't be able to use Vo-IP in the evenings, which would
basically make Vo-IP not an option with this ISP. Comments anyone?

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:06:37 -0000, "Mike Hunt" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Yes but do they ban the use of Vo-IP as part of the Fair Use Policy? If
>they do, then you wouldn't be able to use Vo-IP in the evenings, which would
>basically make Vo-IP not an option with this ISP. Comments anyone?

The FUP refers only to file sharing AFAICS

Phil
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Phil Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The FUP refers only to file sharing AFAICS

VOIP is p2p in the striktest sense

cu

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Markus G. Klötzer" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> Phil Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> The FUP refers only to file sharing AFAICS
>
> VOIP is p2p in the striktest sense

Skype certainly is.
Real VoIP would be a little more debatable.

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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:56:51 +0000, "Markus G. Klötzer"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>VOIP is p2p in the striktest sense

but not "file sharing" in any sense

"Tiscali's Fair Usage Policy is designed to make sure your broadband
service is quick and reliable whenever you use it. A very small number
of customers use Peer to Peer or file sharing software, which
constantly sends and receives video and other very large files,
throughout the day. This type of activity uses a lot of bandwidth and
can significantly reduce the speed at which other customers can access
the internet during peak hours. Approximately 1% of customers use more
than 30% of the available bandwidth during peak hours. We don't
believe this is fair to the vast majority of our customers. 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. "

Phil
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AOL - the unlimited ISP of choice for heavy downloaders.

Markus G. Klötzer wrote:

> Phil Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> The FUP refers only to file sharing AFAICS
>
> VOIP is p2p in the striktest sense

Yes, but VoIP is so fashionable at the moment, I very much doubt that
Tiscali would want to be seen to be banning it.

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> Yes, but VoIP is so fashionable at the moment, I very much doubt that
> Tiscali would want to be seen to be banning it.

Can't see why not. Email is fashionable and they balls that up!

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:45:14 +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:06:37 -0000, "Mike Hunt" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Yes but do they ban the use of Vo-IP as part of the Fair Use Policy? If
>>they do, then you wouldn't be able to use Vo-IP in the evenings, which
>>would basically make Vo-IP not an option with this ISP. Comments
>>anyone?
>
> The FUP refers only to file sharing AFAICS

No it does not. I've been warned twice despite doing no file sharing *at
all* during the FUP hours.