Damn traffic management

[Mullan]

I live in the UK so americans probably wont be able to help here. I got a letter from BT the other day about my internet usage, they want to charge me a pound for every gigabyte i go over 40GB. Considering i use about 120GB a month thata price is insane, so i went looking for another ISP. Every ISP i find with an unlimited connection looks fine until i read the fine print. They all use "traffic management" which basically takes away all your bandwidth if you attempt to download a lot of files or use P2P. Does anyone know of an ISP that will give me unlimited broadband that is actually unlimited?

[Auggie2k]

Check out this link. They can't all use traffic management in the ways you speak of...

http://www.solwise.co.uk/isp_list.htm

[charlesmelissa]

I agree "Damn traffic management." I am thinking about going to an encripted server and ISP called "FindNot." Everything is encripted entering the country so your local ISP won't know what the traffic is. They can't throttle you back if they don't know what it is.

Does anyone on ZP have any information about FindNot?

[thepuzzler]

Mullen. I'm with blueyonder, It's unlimited access and they've recently doubled their 2 meg customers to 4 meg for free. I get good bit torrent speeds and they have a pretty decent news server too (aways max out my connection) for binaries files too. I don't think they're packet shaping yet (but I havent checked or noticed either)

[Govern_cannonball]

zen broadband have a good reputation and
offer "truly unlimited" broadband.

I have not heard of NTL hassling anyone for high use on their unlimited packages.
You have to be in an ntl area to get their broadband service.

Andrews and Arnold offer unlimited downloads outside weekday office hours
that might suit you if you can schedule your downloads eg if you use
newsgroups.

They can't throttle you back if they don't know what it is

Wrong, it is still data passing over their network.

Does anyone on ZP have any information about FindNot?

Engage your brain. Next time start a new thread instead of hijacking
someone elses thread. Learn to use a search engine. Put "findnot"
into google and their website is the first result. There are several
other similar services.