Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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This time last year aol doubled the connection speed free of charge, am I right in hearing that it might be happening again soon?
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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hang your head in shame and never mention AOL again
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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AOL
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Wash your mouth out Jase  Not used AOL for about 10 years, if its anything like it was back then, then i suggest you change your ISP and browser
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drax
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Registered: 5th Feb 05
Location: Sittingbourne, Kent
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Good old cached internet, I bet you love being 2-3 hours behind the rest of the planet huh?
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Jas
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quote:
Originally posted by drax
Good old cached internet, I bet you love being 2-3 hours behind the rest of the planet huh?
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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Originally posted by drunkenfool
Wash your mouth out Jase Not used AOL for about 10 years, if its anything like it was back then, then i suggest you change your ISP and browser
It's awful but i dont pay the bills 
we're gonna change in april when the contract runs out...
any suggestions? under£20
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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The cheeky bastards always come installed on new pc's. They're a bastard to get off 
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topshot_2k
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: Northampton Drives: Pug GTi-6
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tesco. very good service, never had a prob.
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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free food with it?
how much for a 2mb connection
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Nildram do 2mb down, 448k up for £19.99/month. It includes 25GB transfer during peaktimes, and 100% unlimited offpeak. The good thing about Nildram is it actually works, so if you leave stuff going overnight its always done by the morning Plus 25gig a month is still enough to download a film a day if you really wanted to, we get 50 gig a month allowance with the 8meg service (only £25.99, may be worth the extra if you can afford it) and ive never once gone over it even though im always downloading.
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topshot_2k
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quote:
Originally posted by Jas16v
free food with it?
how much for a 2mb connection
https://register.tesco.net/online it is superb 
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
Nildram do 2mb down, 448k up for £19.99/month. It includes 25GB transfer during peaktimes, and 100% unlimited offpeak. The good thing about Nildram is it actually works, so if you leave stuff going overnight its always done by the morning Plus 25gig a month is still enough to download a film a day if you really wanted to, we get 50 gig a month allowance with the 8meg service (only £25.99, may be worth the extra if you can afford it) and ive never once gone over it even though im always downloading.
Im with Nildram and they've gone pete tong since being bought by The Hoff
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
we get 50 gig a month allowance with the 8meg service (only £25.99, may be worth the extra if you can afford it) and ive never once gone over it even though im always downloading.
Aye, great thing is that the 50gb rolls over for what you dont use and it only applied 8am - 8pm 
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
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I need one thats unlimited...
touch wood aol has been fine really its not that bad, unlimted is handy..
but if i can get a 2meg for £20 unlimted elsewhere il take it
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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Well it will prolly be news to you that AOL now has a limited fair usage policy... its not unlimited
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
Location: Mid Wales
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oh shit? really? best calm down on the torrents  surely they cant change that for me seeing as though i have signed up for the contract for unlimited
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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AOL introduces Fair Use Policy
Tuesday 02 January 2007 09 6:22 by Sebastien Lahtinen
Even before New Year celebrations had started, AOL announced a raft of changes to its Conditions of Service including a new Fair Use Policy (FUP). AOL has been one of the few broadband service providers which has been offering an 'unlimited' service whilst other providers have started introducing usage based charges or some kinds of FUP to slow down the increasing bandwidth needs users are placing on providers. Only last week, NewNet, another ISP which has attracted a significant number of high usage customers, announced a series of prices covering most of their broadband services.
The new AOL Conditions of Service outline the company's strategy to protect their network:
"As part of our ongoing commitment to provide reliable and high-quality broadband services, AOL has decided to introduce a Fair Use policy. This enables us to manage the network better and ensure we can continue to deliver the best possible service to our entire subscriber base.
A Fair Use policy means, for example, that we may introduce some form of network management if we feel that specific individuals are abusing their broadband usage beyond a level that would be considered reasonable. For example, using AOL Broadband 24 hours a day, every day, to continuously download large files is not a reasonable use for a residential service.
As another example, we might also manage the AOL Broadband service at peak times to ensure everyone is getting a stable, reliable connection across the whole network. We believe that this policy will help us continue to deliver a high-quality broadband experience and that the vast majority of our broadband subscribers will benefit from the existence of a Fair Use policy."
AOL Statement
AOL has not set out clearly what it considers 'fair' usage and some existing users within contract claim they have been advised this change only affects new users although this is unclear [see update for clarification below]. We would suggest you read any notices sent to you carefully and contact AOL if you have any doubts as to how it will affect you. AOL have also updated their Privacy Policy to prepare for the split between web content and access in relation to the restructuring of the service provisioning.
There will no doubt be speculation as to the timing of the policy change on unlimited usage versus a Fair Use Policy and its relationship to the sale of AOL's UK service to Carphone Warehouse, however it is clear that if the large bandwidth users shift to any group of service providers, they will not be able to maintain an unlimited service without asking other users to subsidise it.
Update 04/01/07 07:26 - AOL have confirmed that this change will affect existing customers from February 1st.
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
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Originally posted by drunkenfool
Nildram do 2mb down, 448k up for £19.99/month. It includes 25GB transfer during peaktimes, and 100% unlimited offpeak. The good thing about Nildram is it actually works, so if you leave stuff going overnight its always done by the morning Plus 25gig a month is still enough to download a film a day if you really wanted to, we get 50 gig a month allowance with the 8meg service (only £25.99, may be worth the extra if you can afford it) and ive never once gone over it even though im always downloading.
Im with Nildram and they've gone pete tong since being bought by The Hoff
I've not had one problem with them since September, the internet hasn't gone down once, im constantly syncing at 7.2mbps and getting 880kB/s ish on downloads and up to 800ish on torrents, can't fault them at all!
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Oh and Jase, a lot of the "unlimited" ones restrict bittorrent and other P2P traffic too and slow it right down, so watch out for that too
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Jas
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Registered: 13th Oct 04
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that's maybe why mines kinda slow then matt
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
hang your head in shame and never mention AOL again
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Originally posted by Jas16v
AOL
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