Author Topic: sky wireless broadband (Read 1718 times)

grandpoop · « **on:** March 10, 2007, 07:22:39 pm »

hi,i hope someone can help me,i have just gone over to sky from tiscali,where i had a broadband modem.this is the first time i have been wireless,i have been on winmx for several years with no problems whatsoever,but since going wireless ,my speeds have disapeared and i can rarley dl or ul to others ,i have triied forward ports and things but i may have done it wrong cause it made no differance at all.does anyone know if there is a problem with sky and winmx???.i tried to call sky about this but the young fella ( specialist expert )on the other end knew less than me ( and i know next to nothing)i hope someone can help me!
many thanks
:lol:grandpoop

J a M e S · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:11:29 pm »

this is prollly cuz of ur wirreless... wireles isnt ueful for much... try a WIRED connecction!

nylly444 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:32:18 pm »

topic moved to the help section so it can be found by more people

KM · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2007, 12:09:49 am »

sky also fuck with p2p traffic...

if you're going to leave an ISP that blocks p2p, it's a good idea to check first that you don't go to another one that does the same... heh

]-[êll.Ôñ.ËÀR'][']-[. · « **Reply #4 on:** March 11, 2007, 12:44:56 am »

yup sorry grandpoop but sky are even worse than tiscali for capping blocking and throttling p2p and i have been searching high and low for a decent isp at a respectable price for p2p without success so far a few have been mentioned but there not nationwide in the uk or are extortionately priced so just not worth it

J a M e S · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2007, 01:17:31 am »

blueyonder (now known as virginmedia) dont have aby caps or BW limits/filter ports/traffic.. allthough the new takeover i can see some of this changing... BY allways treated us well tho.. worth a try

www.virginmedia.com

KM · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2007, 02:37:24 pm »

the good thing is they are investigating throttling etc... and yes, that's a good thing

most other ISPs simply said "p2p is costing us money" and installed devices and just blocked it

NTL/Telewest/Virgin/whatever you call them have said "hmm, this p2p thing is costing us money... let's investigate the best ways to do something about it"

the bigest problem with it is people doing a lot of downloading during peak times (that's why some ISPs only block p2p during peak time), they have a solution there and are simply reducing users download speeds to half during peak time. I think this is a good idea, because it meand during peak time things will still work fine and nobody will have problems, and you'll still have plenty more download bandwidth than you need - then you can do your heavy downloading off peak when it doesn't matter.

A lot of traffic goes via peering connections but the rest is transit, I should imagine that it probably works out to around £20 per Mbit of bandwidth for them, that's without paying for any of the equipment and cabling etc and actually running the network. with ADSL providers over BT lines the costs are even greater (because they not only have that cost, but they also have the costs of getting the ADSL connection from BT)... the biggest problem is those people who think they pay £35/month or something silly and that means they can perfectly reasonably max it out 24/7, do they not give a damn that it's a contended service sharing oversold capacity with other users? they can't pay oversold prices and get dedicated service, it just doesn't work. you want 10Mbit all to yourself then go pay for a 10Mbit connection, going rate is about £300/month (provide your own cabling to get it to your house).

There are people who literally download 100GB/day, those handful of people are the ones that cause ISPs to block p2p, and why? simply because they can, there is no way they even open most of the files they download, they just download it and delete it purely because they don't give a damn and insist they want everything because they can - it's like a little kid demanding they want chocolate purely because someone else was going to have some even if they don't actually want any themselves.

grandpoop · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2007, 06:12:04 pm »

Thanks to you all for the replys,so it looks like i need a new isp,had i known that i would have stayed with tiscali.as i was already a sky tv customer I was tempted with the cheap £5 a month deal offered by sky,it said i could have 40gig a month dl but if you cant dl from who you want ,whats the point???.the speed might be fast but only for browsing.at least this can make others aware of the problem,as the old adage goes "if its sounds to good to be true! ....it probably is!
thanks again guys

KM · « **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2007, 08:31:11 pm »

tiscali not only mess with uploads and downloads on winmx, they actually completely block it connecting at all during certain times (so you can't even use the chat rooms)... they are the only ones that go quite that far, the others just break transfers... tiscali are the worst, but then all those that do the normal blocking like sky etc are almost as bad