Tiscali UK to ban P2P users

slowcoach · 03-09-2005, 00:26

1% of users are consuming 30% of the available bandwidth according to Tiscali UK.

Users will be warned 3 times about using P2P

, if they continue to use P2P their service will be terminated.

Presumably the Tiscali user is typical of most ISP's users in this regard, I wonder if other ISP's will follow suit in future.

03-09-2005, 00:32

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Originally Posted by slowcoach

1% of users are consuming 30% of the available bandwidth according to Tiscali UK.

Users will be warned 3 times about using P2P

, if they continue to use P2P their service will be terminated.

Presumably the Tiscali user is typical of most ISP's users in this regard, I wonder if other ISP's will follow suit in future.

I stopped using p2p along time ago. Us the news groups its far better.

danielf · 03-09-2005, 00:34

Do you have a link for that?

And I presume Tiscali are only interested (for now) in getting rid of this 1%, not all p2p users?

03-09-2005, 00:34

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Originally Posted by slowcoach

1% of users are consuming 30% of the available bandwidth according to Tiscali UK.

Users will be warned 3 times about using P2P

, if they continue to use P2P their service will be terminated.

Presumably the Tiscali user is typical of most ISP's users in this regard, I wonder if other ISP's will follow suit in future.

Scare mongering, Tiscali couldnt afford to lose that amount of subscribers and new customers.

slowcoach · 03-09-2005, 00:54

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Originally Posted by danielf

Do you have a link for that?

www.kenradio.com
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This may be the reason for their decision http://www.edri.org/book/print/318

kronas · 03-09-2005, 00:54

the register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/02/tiscali_fup/

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"This fair usage policy automatically identifies the very small number of extremely heavy users and manages their bandwidth only during peak hours (being 6pm to 11pm Monday to Friday, and 12pm to 4pm on weekends and bank holidays), to protect the service for all our other customers. Outside peak hours, the use of the internet by these heavy users is unaffected."

slowcoach · 03-09-2005, 01:24

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Originally Posted by kronas

the register

Thanks kronas, this link from the page http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/09/tiscali_hogs/ appears to indicate that they booted 500 heavy users earlier in the year and moved others to their own pipe to let them fight it out. It would appear that they are going through a similar routine once again.

nffc · 03-09-2005, 01:36

Ban them, P2P is rubbish, is a gateway for malware, and is mainly used to share illegal material anyway.

Chrysalis · 03-09-2005, 02:56

its only during peak time. Would be different matter if an all day thing.

nffc · 03-09-2005, 08:41

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

its only during peak time. Would be different matter if an all day thing.

No doubt it's illegal off-peak too

Xaccers · 03-09-2005, 09:23

Introduce a p2p tax to pay the movie and record companies

nffc · 03-09-2005, 09:49

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Introduce a p2p tax to pay the movie and record companies

If they treated the customers like people with varied tastes and not sales stats they might find that they got more respect anyway.

I buy CDs/films/etc and use freeware software where I can, but you can see why people download. The prices are pushing it for starters... not that that makes it right by any stretch.

bob_a_builder · 03-09-2005, 11:25

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Introduce a p2p tax to pay the movie and record companies

Indeed, why not, LINK

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Imagine a world where music and movies could be freely exchanged online, where artists are recompensed and the labels don't lose a cent, ...

All that could be yours for less than the price of a subscription to Napster: for less than $6 a month. Harvard University Professor Terry Fisher has completed the first comprehensive examination of various alternative models

nffc · 03-09-2005, 12:07

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Originally Posted by bob_a_builder

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Introduce a p2p tax to pay the movie and record companies

Indeed, why not, LINK

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Imagine a world where music and movies could be freely exchanged online, where artists are recompensed and the labels don't lose a cent, ...

All that could be yours for less than the price of a subscription to Napster: for less than $6 a month. Harvard University Professor Terry Fisher has completed the first comprehensive examination of various alternative models

it's still a crap bitrate though.

bob_a_builder · 03-09-2005, 12:22

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it's still a crap bitrate though

what is ?