Re: [Sheflug] E-Petition for Unusual ADSL Business Practices

["Morris, David \(Allvac, UK\)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Ibbotson
> Sent: 27 March 2007 10:38
> To: sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Sheflug] E-Petition for Unusual ADSL Business Practices
> 
> Hi
> 
> Some of you might not know about this but a lot of ISPs out 
> there including Plusnet have the practice of throttling back 
> your bandwidth of you do something like download a DVD.  

<off topic>

Personally, I'm in favour of capping and restrictions (ducks incoming
muck and bullets), especially on what are designated 'domestic' lines.
I'm a fairly low user at home. We hit our leased line at work hard, but
that's what it's there for, and I pay a (big) premium for having a
leased line with a SLA.

If the issue is with 'hiding' the restrictions in the small print, then
OK, I'm for it. If the issue is with caps and restrictions, then no,
bring them on, at least until the worldwide infrastructure is
demonstrably capable of supporting everyone that wants to hitting it
with a 2mb (or better) bandwidth connection (...of course it might
already be, but if it is, why do we need caps and throttles in the first
place?)

</off topic>

...and dragging on topic...

I've been playing with Beryl recently (don't tell the wife!) on
openSuSE10.2 (despite saying I wasn't going to install it) and it's
really nice. I love the desktop cube, and it runs quite nicely on my
Dell Latitude 410 with a bog-standard Intel graphics chip. Hit does seem
to kill video playback though.

-- 
David

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