BT ‘cut of’ my broadband yesterday for not paying bills (lolwut?) To reactivate I’d need to do X, Y and Z for them. I got a raging e-mail saying how pissed off they are etc. But for some reason they only blocked browser based apps because I could still play online games, torrent things (and get e-mails.)

Anyhow, in a pissed off state I phone BT asking wtf is going on. They tell me I don’t have Internet with them, and that I switched to sky 6 months ago. So I phone sky who tell me that they don’t provide it either

Defiantly, I resume all my inactive downloads and leave the PC on overnight. I’ve now broken my monthly download limit by 64GB and climbing. One of the files contained a link in the readme which actually worked when I clicked it this morning!? i check a few other site and it seems that my internet is now working perfectly again no idea why.

I doubt it will stay this way for long so I could disappear at anytime. may not be able to post here for who knows how long
Just thought I’d let you all know incase i bugger off for a month >_<

well good luck and sorry to hear BT have giving you a hard time.

I want my willy back.

@Helly, I said you'd regret that operation, but that's kinda off topic.

Hope you sort it soon, McWill!

Hope everything sorts it out Will. Obviously they've made a huge <LOOK MA, I AM SWEARING> up of it all which you can't do anything about.

Surprisingly I've never had any problems with AOL despite it's reputation, if you're considering any new operators.

Just give them a big FUUUUU on the phone then go to Australia for new internets!

AOL is rubbish

Get like Talk Talk or Tiscali or something lol

AOL isn't rubbish! xD. I've never had any trouble with them D:

Apart from you cant play RA3 online?

Well, I guess that would be a problem yes xD

I left UK Online because I thought I was getting a poor service.

I moved to Tiscali.

Worst mistake I have ever made in my entire life.

Promptly switched back to UK Online who are fantastic, by the way. Brilliant in fact. Wait, probably the best. I know many people who swear by UK Online for their reliability.

BT are shite, "unlimited broadband" (option 3)

In their TOS it states that if they deem that I/my household, are downloading an abnormal amount, they have the right to limit the amount I/my household can download.


so if I download too much on my "unlimited" broadband, it becomes limited . . . WTF!?

I'm guessing there's a fairuse policy

It stops me playing openTTD between 4 and 12, I dont like it

is there anyway to get off a fairuse policy once you're on it?

don't think so

They are shite. They stop me playing a few games all together, and the games i can play must be hosted by someone without an evil/enemy ISP >_<

When i signed up i was promised unlimited downloads. i found an old email today from a few month ago that wasn’t addressed to me (don’t ask.) it says due to excessive use i am now limited to 10gb per month and every gig over that costs £1. I’ve downloaded over 200gb in the last 2 month, joy.
The service randomly cuts out all the time, support is really poor and every time I phone them I’m told the problem is that I haven’t plugged everything in correctly.

Was supposed to have switch to sky 6 month ago because it came with a faster connection and sky+ HD but they’ve clearly <LOOK MA, I AM SWEARING> that up. So I’m now considering switching again

DEATH TO BT


also the home hub is piece of shite arsed donkey wank

I swear by Virgin Media. 7 years later they're still my broadband provider.

Firenet. It works.

i like that in an ISP

and yes nannal the hub is aweful

AOL all my life since dialup .

Hah.

We've been PlusNet for our entire BB life, not too shabby. Going O2 next year, I have heard lots of goodness about them.

We're shifting to 02 pretty soonish