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Hellfire - 19/8/08 at 12:43 AM

I occasionally download from the website Rapidshare of which I am a premium member. It seems at the moment that I cannot access this website any longer - or download from it.

Anyone else feeling the big clampdown is coming... still, at least I have 40GB of download limit, amazing... any idea what to download and from where? Arses.... glad my contract runs out in November - move to Virgin maybe?

Oh - I think I just bypassed their blocking by altering some settings... yep... downloading.

Oh well, here we go again!

dhutch - 19/8/08 at 01:45 AM

quote:

Anyone else feeling the big clampdown is coming...

I know what you mean, its a bit big brother.
- I mean, AOL have been screening masses of emails for years. (Not just filtering into junk boxes, total screening)
- But as you say, fair-usage policy or not, you have paid for a service and i would certainly not want my surfing limited like that.

But as you say, i deffonatly feel somthing happening.

Certianly the music industry/film deffonatly want that to be the case.

The sad thing is there so little insentive or alternative option.
- Theres such a big gab between free and avilable films and music on P2P/Torrent and any leigal form of gaining the material.
- If there was somewhere i could buy suitably priced, unresticted audio files, for a reasonable price, i'd buy lots.
- As it is, iTunes is a horrable program, and half there stuff wont play on my MP3player, other options are poor, and buying a CD and ripping it to MP3 is a timeconsuming and backwards way of doing anything.

Minor rant over.....

Daniel

BenB - 19/8/08 at 07:32 AM

Don't go to Virgin if you download frequently. Their "fair use" policy kicks in if you upload more than about 100Mb which is virtually impossible not to do if you use 4OD or BBC Iplayer... Then your broadband slows down to a crawl for the next five hours......

tegwin - 19/8/08 at 07:48 AM

Look at some of the less obvious Broadband suppliers!

I am with Demon (Thus PLC) and cant praise them enough!!

I would imagine the companies like demon that are targeted at industry are less likley to start fecking people around....

britishtrident - 19/8/08 at 07:58 AM

Try O2 very good bundle deals.

stevebubs - 19/8/08 at 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by tegwin
Look at some of the less obvious Broadband suppliers!

I am with Demon (Thus PLC) and cant praise them enough!!

I would imagine the companies like demon that are targeted at industry are less likley to start fecking people around....


They're in the process of being bought by Cable & Wireless so expect them to go the way of Bulldog.....

tegwin - 19/8/08 at 11:02 AM

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They're in the process of being bought by Cable & Wireless so expect them to go the way of Bulldog.....


Enlighten me....what happened to bulldog?

madmandegge - 19/8/08 at 11:39 AM

I wouldn't go with Virgin Media at the moment, they seriously need to reform their policies with regards to download capping, really makes using it a pain!
Having said that I can't see many people standing for it with HD content online becoming more commonplace

stevebubs - 19/8/08 at 12:50 PM

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Originally posted by tegwin
quote:

They're in the process of being bought by Cable & Wireless so expect them to go the way of Bulldog.....


Enlighten me....what happened to bulldog?


Bulldog....management team replaced. No direction given to the business. Core infrastructure retained but userbase sold off to Pipex.

chrism - 19/8/08 at 01:26 PM

As far as I am aware the virgin capping only kicks in during certain time periods of the day.

Mostly the busy times, ie 1st thing in morning and early evening when people are getting home and want to check emails, etc.

If you upload/download too much during these periods then you will get capped, doing it at off peak times doesnt seem to count.

Remember reading it on the virgin site but cant seem to find the page anymore will have a good look for it later.

Edit. Heres the link to the page.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

[Edited on 19/8/08 by chrism]