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My isp is totally blocking P2P...what can i do???
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spliffman
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8. January 2006 @ 16:21 |
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Hi at first my isp was great (talktalk) but slowly they started bring in fair usage rules. But now they have totally stopped all people using P2P, is there anything i can do to get around it as its gonna cost me £70 to end my contract and get my MAC code..
thanks
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8. January 2006 @ 17:49 |
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Spliffman,
Unfortunately, youre probably gonna have to take the 70 dollar hit, and live and learn...
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spliffman
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8. January 2006 @ 18:08 |
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ok m8 thats what i thought.
The bad thing is there website advertises 2mb unlimited connection. It actually states perfect for Music, Pictures , Movies. But not only do there blocks affect P2P but also effect yahoo , online games , video confrencing.. sorry getting into a rant agian
Thanks for the reply
*NB anyone in the u.k , please read all small print before signing up for broadband as %90 of uk isp's are now using fairusage policy.
And before anyone says serves you right hoggin all the bandwith, it dosent just effect P2P / but other LEGAL activities.The only thing it dont effect is mIRC dunno why.
Peace all and happy easter
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kinel
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19. February 2006 @ 23:18 |
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have you switched isp if so could u tell me what isp your using one that alows p2p
as i also have talk talk but cant download from any of my p2p clients any more or use torrents there blocking every one i think vy the way you can still download at certain times of the night from 3 am til 7 am they let u use p2p clients and torrents but torrents are well slow p2p speeds are ok then but problem is ime harldy ever awake then so its hard to download any thing
you mentioned you can download from mIRC that is true but problem is i dont know any web sites to get files from irc from if you could tell us some that would be great ide like a site for xbox stuff
neo 2.2 ar2 v2 ask i might know
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19. February 2006 @ 23:27 |
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AOL is garbage, but it allows me to max out on P2P/Bittorrent. There are no fair-usage rules thus far, so you may want to consider it.. :-)
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spliffman
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20. February 2006 @ 01:51 |
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@ kinel
I migrated over to ZEN on there 2 mbs service . It is costly at £34.99 per month , but im maxing out on news groups at all hours of the day. Plus its only a monthly contract, and there customer service is superb , as is there help on the ADSL guide web site.
They have got there own news server but that seems to be a bit hit and miss, so im also using giga news. Newsgroups seems a bit complex at first bud, but i would never go back to P2P now.
Iv'e been with zen for 2 months and i can honestly say i haven't had 1 problem. Hope this helps
One last thing , MAKE SURE YOU CANCEL YOUR DIRECT DEBIT because the robbers down the carphone warehouse will keep taking your money.
If at first you don't succeed give up and move on
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welshguy
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19. March 2006 @ 15:51 |
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look guys stay away from talktalk. because at first you think theres nothing rong when using BitTornado because your speeds are ok .then after a bit they your speeds realy slow down or evean stop.your isp is capping your download speeds .then you manege to get around it buy using diffront bittorent client one that might be using a java based p2p download then your isp is capping your download speed .your seing plenty of seeds and peers but nothing evan getting green light.so you go looking for ansers looking at your firewall and port conecting.try using port and tracker chekers and you see that everything is ok after the test.so you go looking again then p2p downloading and get load of ansers saying open ports for this that and everything.look il get to the point
first talktalk capped my download speed
then they block my p2p port (ie)
bt client
bittornado
abc
and loads more other ones i have tried.
im going to take splifmans adva and change to zen net i have looket around after him saying that. And they dont capp you but i have gota
wait for that bastard talktalk contrackt to run out so anyone thing of using torrents stay away from talktalk so called unlimitted broadband
false advertising or what . anyway hope this helpt you
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metrixxx
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21. March 2006 @ 13:48 |
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spiffman, try OneTel. As far, as I now they do not have fair usage policy.
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Nutkin
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24. March 2006 @ 02:22 |
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Go for Pipex, ive been with them for 2 years at home and they were fantastic. Good customer support. and good speeds. They are also one of the cheapest ive seen. they have seperate contracts for fair use and full use.
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24. March 2006 @ 11:35 |
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I'm with Toucan and because I'm classed as a "heavy user" my bandwidth is managed at peak times but at least they haven't blocked p2p.
For those with ISP's actually blocking p2p does the Protocol Encryption on uTorrent, BitComet or Azureus have any effect or haven't you tried it.
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sweethemp
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28. March 2006 @ 07:42 |
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im with toucan and as above i have f*kd about with firewalls adaware port scans the lot i gave in and accepted 2mb unlimited means f*ck all even when u ask somebody from the company if it is UNLIMITED they tell u it is then hit u with all sorts of s*it allways read the small print boys and girls and i found that BT Broadband was pricy but no probs with downloading
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