Virgin Broadband restriction

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I would love to see those Terms & Conditions. I suspect that either your mate is pulling your leg, or that what he means is the Ts & Cs state they can inspect the traffic on your link at any time they want.

There is absolutely no way on God's green Earth that they would ever be able to get a contract past their legal department which, basically, gave them the signed authority to do what amounts to hacking you whenever they feel like it.

If you can get a copy of those terms & conditions and post them on this site I'd believe it. until then, it sounds like a good pub yarn - but nothing more than that.

For what its worth, I wouldn't consider TalkTalk because, in common with Sky BB, everyone I know who has switched to them has said they are utter toss.

I'm still on SmellyWest/Virgin, the throttling doesn't affect me greatly because I don't download loads of films or music, and yesterday I downloaded the latest release of BackTrack at 8:00 in the evening and got the exact same speed I always get. branson might be a turd, but until I start seeing a serious decrease in service, I'll stick with Virgin. I can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of service outages I've had with Telewest over the past three years - that is an absolutely unheard of uptime rate for any other ISP I've used in the past.

They even let me run my own SMTP server...

 

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Maybe it is just inspecting traffic, but from what I have seen they have actually sent him a message saying that where he had downloaded a file to on his pc would be better to go else where on his pc, so was this just telepathy or did they see what he was downloading and where he had put it

 

Tell him to stop downloading illegal torrents.

Just kidding... unless he IS downloading them, in which case, he SHOULD stop!

 

Nah he doesnt do stuff like that, I know someone who does though. And he does it a lot

Not me btw