Posts by theloon

Look further than just your Routers line clocked speed before deciding...

The router will tell you the clocked speed, BUT that is not actually the throughput you will have been allocated. It is often the case that you will actually be "squeezed" to half of that. BT has a system that messes with your line all the time, and both physical clock and vlan/pvc level. it is to try and make it stable at layer 1/2, however it forgets that IP can survive occasional loss.. (dear BT broadband designers it's called TCP)..but it is way to aggressive. UDP...well... depends on your apps needs.

In addition at peak time there is zero guarentee you will get anything over 2/4meg depending on your package, if you doubt this call customer service you will get a short and sharp answer on that one. If you have a good tool like wireshark you can see this in detail for yourself.

And...if you are on Option 1 you are gonna get dinged to 800k sinbin if you go over your limit.

http://www.speedtest.net/ works pretty well for checking out what is going on. Run it a few times over a few days to see your average.

Free Ride!

Classic BT comment. "Beeb shouldn’t expect a “free ride” over its network"

Of course BT seems to have forgotten that their own broadband customers have actually paid for bandwidth and access to the Internet.

Just go to Virgin where they actually try and give you want you have paid for, and not pass you off with peak-time guarantee of just 2 meg.

BT does not like you actually using the bandwidth you have paid for....

This is a new one even for MS!

Usually you need a shiny new CPU, 4 x the memory, new Graphics card, more power etc for any MS upgrade... but this time you need less buttons!

Awesome - another good move from MS... Force people to get a new device.

So let me see, do I get the an iPhone (v cool), Blackberry (very solid) or Google phone (cool and niche), so shall I try another Windows (I'm sure this time it will be ok) phone...?

WM5 was still the best OS they even made for Phones...but that was a longggg time ago, in a land far far away....

About damn time.....

Good, and then the Government proposal for DPI'ing us all will also be denied.

If I can't collect info from people without their knowledge then neither can BT..

as If you needed another reason to just use your mobile...

PSTN traffic is dying on it's feet. You want to call the person not the house...

The really scary thing about BT is that they really believe that they can move people away from using the mobile back to landlines.

They believe that the standard usage pattern has changed and 7-7 works better for people. Might be so or might not, but who they hell calls someone's home number if that person has a mobile!

a: costs more to call the mobile FROM a BT landline

b: the mobile is the most likely way to reach anyone these days.

c: your mobile will most likely have all friends and families numbers in anyway. Who want to manage 2 devices, plus does anyone have a home phone that syncs' to their PC/Mac?

d: you have already probably paid for an anytime minutes package on your mobile, why pay for the BT call?

PSTN you have done well, rest in peace...

Hilarious, oh MS how you make me smile.

Another incredible statement from the company laughed at the iPhone and said they are happy with their smartphone strategy.

Enjoy - Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siuKQw6L6Rk

Utterly pointless....

Oh the joy of patent lawyers....money and time not well spent...

Let the Cat and Mouse games behind

It's going to be amusing to watch this one. Having written one of the official responses to the UK Gov telling them this is a giant waste of time, I'm going to have a good time watching this one fail...

If only it was not going to cost the tax payer in the end. That is the real crime here.

Totally a user problem. Doh!

Yep I jailbreak and unlock mine... But leave the ssh passwd at default...ummm no...

RTFM people.

Prepare to get monitored...

This is a huge blow to the rights of individuals to not have all their online activity monitored.

The massive cost to the ISP of implementing very deep DPI is still a barrier to implementing this, (phew) as simply examining the IP port number does nothing, you have to go deeper.

As networks decentralise to push IP services (like content) further out this cost rises.

ISP's are pushing back on the cost and complexity to do this, I know as I work for one and wrote our response for P2P / DPI to the UK gov... ;)

Circumventing all this is pretty easy using encrypted P2P, and this type of P2P will exponentially increase to combat this. So it's all just cat and mouse at some point....

Public awareness is needed to prevent total loss of Internet privacy.

Any suggestions on raising awareness?

Anyone on this thread got friends at BBC?

Good luck - lol

As the ISP's have basically refused to cooperate with this, due factors like, the massive cost of DPI, Storage, power (it's so not green ;) ) and the basic principle that the postman does not get to read your fecking mail before he delivers it.... Good luck getting this done.

Also this is a breach in basic human rights to monitor everyone's activities.

Good going Graeme

Excellent for sticking to your guns dude.

Dear Kaspersky the cold war is over!

Dear Kaspersky

We do not need to return to the world you propose.

We do not need to be controlled as you propose.

We wish to continue to have free and unmonitored access to all the information which has been denied to us for so long.

We wish to make our own decisions on the information or even disinformation we receive.

We like the direction we are going in.

Dear Kaspersky, go fly a kite....

Just for children!! Over 12 and it's ok?

When did being over 12 suddenly remove your rights to not having to have a forced "strip" search at an airport, unless you are a criminal, and even then they have rights.

And what else are they saying looking at only the child issue....Is the airport full of childporn freaks working at security?

Plus if the images are really being destroyed then there is no issue for anyone...ummmm perhaps they are not being destroyed after all. Shocking surprise!

It is an issue for us all.... I will be refusing and they can just waste a load of time pading me down.

Clean underwear folks, in case of "the glove" .....

Sounds like a rental phone to me - lets ask Trading Standards

If it is not yours to use at the end of the contract then it would be classified as a rental surely?

Therefore the upfront payment was a deposit for the lease. Deposits get returned, less wear and tear...

Trading standards anyone?

Sue them for goodness sake!

Dude you need to get some payment out of this.... and the officers need to be dismissed from the force.