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Throttling

From that Zen account of FUPs:

For persistent heavy users the ISPs may try to make their service seem so unattractive that the customer chooses to leave of their own accord. This is hardly surprising when you consider that only a small percentage (often less than 10%) of a provider’s customer base can be responsible for using the majority of its overall network capacity. It often makes more economic sense to squeeze the heaviest users and thus free up performance over a wider selection of subscribers.

Some providers can also abuse it as a means to fit more customers onto a dwindling supply of capacity, which saves money but can also lead to a detriment in service quality for everybody. This kind of irresponsible behaviour is little more than a patch to mask the need for further investment in capacity and the provider’s failure to advertise and design its packages with greater honesty in mind.

When Talk Talk took over AOL and screwed my service and lost all my emails without a by your leave, they had an hideous reputation.

Obviously the above ploy was to make sure they only kept hold of people who were cheap to keep.
Since then the srvice got better, as well as could be expected from a BT reseller.

But they were doing something immoral.

The thing is that we lusers never find out what until years later. I'd love to be able to sue them but they wouldn't get as badly hurt by it as I would. So...

What can you do but just move over.
It smacks of an article I just read about rebadged USB memory.

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.comp.os.linux/browse_frm/thread/fc83561e5f7937dc/7d39795d1399b6b1

Apparantly Kingston sticks are sold to non wholesalers because the actual manufacturers are shielding the company and their own production by permitting rebadging right down to out and out scammers.

The actual manufacturers are Sandis and Toshiba:
Significantly, Kingston is revealed as simply a vendor that re-marks other people’s chips in its own packaging . Every Kingston card surprisingly had a Sandisk or Toshiba memory chip inside, and the only variance or “value add” that could be found is in the selection of the controller chip. Oddly enough, of all the vendors, Kingston quoted with the best lead times and pricing — better than SanDisk or Samsung, despite the competition making all their own silicon and thereby having a lower inherent cost structure.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
 
I am sorry but I am lost, are you complaining about something? What is 'immoral' and what has it to do with Kingston?
 
I'm confused other than this seems to be a post about general moaning :D.

RE: Usage caps and throttling.
Yep.. if you don't read the small print or keep up with T&C changes with your provider.. or your provider fails to capacity manage correctly you could end up with terrible service. Research.. move on, move away. There are better providers out there but they often come at a higher price.

RE: memory sticks. Almost every memory stick manufacturer will be like that.
Dell laptops don't contain Dell hard disks. - Even more entertainingly Samsung laptops probably don't contain Samsung hard disks! Toshiba laptops probably don't contain Toshiba hard disks.
Crucial RAM won't have chips made by crucial on them. - I've been corrected on this one, Micron own Crucial. Crucial RAM has Micron chips! (Thanks butler)
Kingston or Sony memory sticks won't contain chips made by Kingston, Sony etc.
Belkin wireless cards don't contain wireless chips made by Belkin.
Many, many end user products are like this. Manufacturer of a chipset is not interested in seeing the product all the way through to end users. Easier to sell in bulk to another company who assembles them and does all the marketing and end user support.

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
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