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ISP Reviews by Abysmal Monkey

 Firefly (Broadband Fixed Line)
Posted: 08th Mar, 2010    By: Abysmal Monkey
Half Star Empty Star Empty Star Empty Star Empty Star
I'm another TitanADSL customer who was swapped over from Entanet, despite having absolutely no problems with them at all. My speeds with Vispa during the day have been reasonably competent, but certainly worse than they were and far, far more variable. The speeds after midnight are always pitiful, however.

P2P is certainly being throttled, despite claims that this would never happen. The speeds are shockingly low at all times and rarely get above 5kb/s during off-peak. Youtube has also been badly affected and can never, ever be watched in real-time even on the lowest quality setting.

If I have the sheer audacity to enter an online game, it starts out OK, but then after a few minutes the ping shoots up to 150+ and the constant packet losses ensures I lose connection/get kicked very quickly.

My major problem, however, has been the shifting of off-peak times from 10pm to midnight. This is has rendered off-peak pretty much worthless. I'm not a heavy P2P user and kept the vast majority of it off-peak with Entanet, but that will be impossible now.

So, even if all of these problems were sorted out, the useless off-peak times ensure this unwanted shift to "a more efficient service and product" will cost Titan my custom. If this were completely free I still wouldn't use it, but on top of it all, Vispa saw fit to double bill me for this abysmal service.

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