[quote="Aaron's ISP"]
Dear Customer,

This email contains important information regarding your broadband account.

Your broadband Internet usage has been highlighted as exceptionally high
during peak periods and is affecting the service that we provide to other
customers.

All of our users have the right to an acceptable quality of service, and
to ensure this Tiscali employs a Fair Use Policy
(http://www.tiscali.co.uk/fup). This gives Tiscali
the right to manage customers whose usage adversely affects our network
and the service of other customers. This is referred to in clause 8.4 of
the Terms and Conditions of our Broadband service (note clauses 5.9 in
the old Terms and Conditions if you registered before 2005) and
detailed in our Fair Use Policy (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/fup).

You may upload and download as you wish outside the peak hours;
however we ask that you are considerate when using the internet
during the peak period. Peak hours are from 6pm to 11pm Monday to
Sunday. To avoid any further heavy use warnings
we strongly recommend you adhere to the following guidelines:

o) Do not download large files during the peak periods

o) Do not use Peer-to-Peer file sharing software during peak
periods (e.g. Kazaa, BitTorrent)

o) Try and keep internet use to email and web browsing during these times.


If you do not reduce your usage during these peak times we
will manage your usage. This means that you will share
bandwidth with other heavy users during peak times instead of
sharing bandwidth with normal users. Your service will continue
to be unlimited, but by sharing bandwidth with other heavy users
you are likely to experience slower speeds during peak times.

If you have a query regarding this letter then you can
email [email protected]

Important Note: When emailing please use your Tiscali email
address ([email protected]) and use the following reference
in the subject line "FUP Warning1". It may prove difficult for us
to process any queries or requests without this information.

Yours Sincerely


Tiscali Broadband Team
[/quote]

Heh, nice! My ISP employs a similar policy but we've never had problems with it.

I seriously didn't think that I'd been downloading much data at all! I'll just make sure that I download like a biatch out of those hours, and just play EverQuest 2 during those hours.

LOL, take it all when you can! xP

I would like to know what they consider to be a large file though. Do they mean something of CD size or something of DVD size? To be fair I must have downloaded over 100GB of stuff recently.

It's probably a few GB. Basically anything that uses a lot of the bandwidth for extended periods.

Lol, your ISPs have that.

One thing I noticed in the email, who uses Kazaa anymore? Fair play, that was quite a big PoS.

Wasn't Kazaa some sort of annoying torrent program?

Kazaa Lite was the best P2P program ever invented.

Also, I received a letter from Tiscali today dated 21-Mar-2007 saying that I now share bandwidth with other heavy broadband users. I have a feeling I'm the only one. I don't mind sharing with myself too much.

Lol. That is all that can be said.

Wasn't it full of spyware and stuff.

Kazaa was, but Kazaa Lite wasn't.

Ah, I see, got ya!

apranrltyl; ticcscali are the equifvlnet of wankerzzz ja!?!

I'm gonna switch to Pipex

Nice, are they less limited?

They are truly unlimited and they don't (yet) have a fair use policy.

Aww, nice. Tell me how you get on with them. How much?

It's ?24.99/month for their 8mbps package. ?7/month more expensive than Tiscali.

That's pretty decent.

Had any more 'warnings' from that person?

No more warnings, just actions. I've not noticed any slowdown though. Must be just me sharing with myself, as I expected.

LOL, could mean you get MORE bandwidth, if you're lucky...

[quote="azcn2503"]
just actions
[/quote]

What do you mean?

They've already capped the speed so they won't warn me that they're going to cap it any more, since it's already been done. I guess the worst they could do now is block me during those hours... which I am half expecting.