Yes, so I understand.
It's all over for me, though - by this time next week Titan & Vispa will be history.
Maybe they'll make it work (and I hope they do, for the sake of the other subscribers) but I'm afraid I won't be around to know about it.
I feel confident that I've made the right decision - and that has to be my last word about the subject.
Life is just too short to be worrying about pings, and latency, and caps, and all the other techno-baggage that seems to have popped up since the transfer to Vispa.
I don't find myself having to telephone my electricity supplier because the voltage is low, or the amperage insufficient - and I don't want to have to keep chasing a BB supplier because the speed is slow, etc
My final observation is that the government's dream of 'Broadband Britain' seems as far away as ever - and the reality is of people constantly roaming around in herds, all looking for an ISP who can offer a decent reliable service on a regular basis.
Until such provision is the norm, the digital utopia just isn't going to happen!
That's it from me, anyway - and thanks to ispreview for help given.
Cheers.
Ahem! - 'last comment', notwithstanding, I thought it might be useful to post some 'real life' stats on this miserable excuse for an internet service.
What I've noticed is that after midnight (which is the start of the unmetered period) the speed all but vanishes.
Speedtests still show a decent average - but, in reality, the service (sic) is as dead as Monty Python's parrot.
I don't do P2P, so I don't know if it's a case of regular users being sacrificed to keep the P2P crowd happy, or whether Titan/Vispa simply make the entire service unusable for downloads during the unmetered period.
I've been using a driver download from HP as a test file - it's 311 MB, from a reputable mainstream source.
After 12 pm, without fail, the download crawls along at speeds ranging from 2.185 KB/S (which estimates a whopping 44 hours to get the file!) to a less than sprightly 11.2 KB/S (*only* 8 hours!)
Come the morning, however, and things perk up - 411 KB/S today - only a 12 minute download.
These aren't 'one off' results - *everything* (well, everything that I use) goes to sleep at 12 midnight. You Tube is unwatchable, downloads simply die - and as for i-player, well, that's just having a laugh, innit?
As I said, I don't know if the P2P boys are rip-roaring along, but I do know that any 'ordinary' users effectively have no service between the hours of 12 midnight & 8 am!
This is. imo. tantamount to deception - 'Yep, we give you unmetered periods of access - but, Nope, you can't actually download anything, or watch anything, during that time"
BOY!! - am I glad that my own ordeal with Titan/Vispa is nearly at an end! If this goes on, I'll be surprised if they have a single customer to bless themselves with in six months time!