h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It fluctuates a fair amount. Having had a chronicly slow dial-up, I guess it's more tolerable than I'd feared.

Might it depend on the time of day you use it? Perhaps other users clog up the whatsit, the line or whatever.

I haven't used it much in recent days but at the time there didn't seem to be a real pattern to it, in that it wasn't necessarily limited at what are generally refered to as peak hours, but was limit at others. or seemed to be.

It's not as bad as I had feared, not as good as I might have hoped. I wouldn't recommend toucan, but I'm not tearing my hair out in frustration.

So yeah, these n*nces are limiting my bandwidth outside of peak hours, in violation of the fair usage agreement. Coprophiles!

Oh yeah the other thing is that since I went to them for broadband the quality of my phoneline [when I'm not connected to the internet] is extremely poor - crackling on the line, everyone seems very far away and sometime I can't make out what on the other end at all.

I'm fecked-off I wanna slap somebody!
I wanna take the entire IDT Telecom group to a hostel in Slovakia and show them just how much fun I can have with a meat-cleaver!

Might this mean you can terminate your agreement with them?

Although what they did the other day was pretty much out of order...
I am at this precise moment planning to download about 3gigs worth of documentry from democracy player, so, now may not be the best time to make fuss.

One documentry I can't get because of 'server error', and the other after 8 hours of dowloading I just canceled by accident, an easy thing the way the active download pane is designed. You try to cancel one download, nothing happens you click to cancel it again and instantly you've canceled two downloads.

This post has been removed.

What was the point in hiding that?! You might as well hide the entire thread retrospectively because of the title doesn't pass the profanity filter.

Yeah... What I said was that I need to find a new broadband provider because Toucan is ing me off! Any recommendations?

I'm looking at http://www.newnet.co.uk/broadband/home.php

I asked Gothly a while back for a recommendation, but apparently the deals are different for different areas.