Dougal Wrote: > Hi, > It was just a process of elimination really as I at first thought it > may be the router so bought another, result just the same and then > googling for clues before I spend an hour on the telephone to the help > line, when I got through the chap on the line wasnt able to give me a > satisfactory answer. > While googling I found this, and yes this is (soon to be was) my ISP. > ************************************************************** > Radio Netherlands reports that Italian-owned ISP Tiscali has blocked > ADSL access to webcasts from some of Holland's most popular commercial > broadcasters: Radio 538, Radio Veronica, Sky Radio and Classic FM. > Apparently their digital audio streams had become too popular, > consuming more bandwidth than Tiscali thought was appropriate. What's > next - limits on the number of queries that Tiscali customers can send > to search engines? > > http://tinyurl.com/k74zt > > ************************************************************* > They are really cheap, but if they do not want their customers > streaming they should point this out in the contract instead of > advertising it as an unlimited always on connection. > Regards, > Doug.
Yes, you could have them charged with false advertising. "Unlimited" doesn't mean "Unlimited except for certain traffic on certain ports, in which case it's limited". -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24388 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
