Telewest may have gone downhill since Virgin took it over, but it still offers unthrottled Internet with no monthly bandwidth allowance – This puts it streets ahead for me.

I once had an ISP which messed with your browsing sessions in an really annoying way. Every time you dialled in, the first page would be redirected to the providers homepage. It regularly broke downloads or saved browsing sessions… THAT sucked.

On a Different note, 75gig WTF…….

I live in Australia and im on what is absurdly referred to as an unlimited service. Which amounts to 14gig off peak (12 midnight to midday) and 7 gig peak time a month for about $55 (there are cheaper, but none as fast or reliable as optus cable).
serious household limits are applied to torrenting and youtubeing. and we count ourselves lucky. Most introduction broadband services range between 250mg and 5 gig a month (techno phobic relatives have to be warned of such plans lest their windows system update breach thier monthly limit on first connection).

Thank goodness Shaw is the king out here in Western Canada. Rogers stands for everything evil in telecom. Their customer service was crap so they had an about face, and all of a sudden their phone staff spoke perfect english (Not broken english like they did before) and asked me how my day was.

It felt more evil…

I’m really not sure what @HUGH_LILLY is complaining about – aside from temporarily high bandwith costs, we have perfectly acceptable internet access.

The service does give an opt-out option, which is cookie-based. If you happen to clean out your cookies on a regular basis, though… Tough luck.

In the less obvious more insidious category, I just today noticed Yahoo branding itself on top of newsfeeds small and large.

THEN I’ll accept you bellyaching about it.

Under US copyright law, you’re not allowed to alter other peoples’ content and present it as their own. Not sure if that’s true in Canada or not, but it’s still highly questionable.

That Yahoo ad button, for instance, might be cause for legal action on Google’s part.

(Of course, this is exactly the same argument I made when Google started altering my Usenet posts by stripping email addresses from them, and it fell on deaf ears.)

That would have quite some security-implications.

Some webpages are official documents, then it would be on the verge of document-forgery. Rogers needs to be very careful doing that…

This ISP is monitoring its users’ http requests. (A violation of its users’ privacy.)

Then, when a user sends a particular http request, in this case to a third-party search engine, this ISP inserts its own content over top of the third party’s content, in the form of a banner ad. (Numerous potential violations including copyright infringement, misrepresentation by the ISP as being endorsed by the third party, and theft of ad revenue from the third party who might otherwise sell that space.)

Also, this ISP unexpectedly includes in its message private account information about its user, regardless of who may be looking at the screen at that moment. (A further violation of its users’ privacy.)

All this comes from an ISP who has already committed practically every abuse possible, from illegal contract terms, secret bandwidth caps and active blocking of URLs for political reasons.

I think I’ll contact Google, and ask them what they think about this…

1. I live in Toronto, Canada and the weather for most of the year is less then ideal so I spend a lot of time inside.

2. I listen to A LOT of music on Youtube and I have it set to never keep a cache due to a severe shortage of disk space.

It’s actually about 50 to 60 hours of music videos a week so I exaggerated a bit, but not by much.

However, I’ve since switched back to Rogers and I gotta say, the fact that they’re upfront with their bandwidth caps makes all the difference. Their most popular package, Rogers Express, grants you 60GB per month (or maybe 75 now as the screenshot above shows), but since my wife and I cancelled our Rogers cable TV (Miro FTW!) we switched to Rogers Extreme which allows 100GB per month. That’s a lot of gigs, and they come down at 8Mb/s.

Rogers has redeemed itself to me. They even offered to reconnect our TV at no charge which was kind, but seriously folks, the content on Miro is a zillion times more fulfilling, poignant, and enjoyable – especially with my super speedy Rogers connection.

http://www.getmiro.com/

You also missed the point as well. I’m saying that Ma Bell distinguishes for some reason. I guess it’s the overhead of torrent traffic that they hate.

There’s going to be a tonne of people who are going to be stunned with their bill. This sort of notification is still a disturbing intrusion. They should send out a mailing warning that their going to begin enforcing.

Personally, I’ve had it with Rogers and Bell. Is Yak any better? There MUST be a good ISP. I’m willing to pay more for better service and no-traffic shaping… and I don’t even use torrents! Just tired of the whole thing and lousy, crippled service.

I trade in a lot of free flac and SHN concerts and I don’t approach that type of traffic size.