Tag Archives: ISP

Music industry still don’t get it.

The manager of rock band U2 has urged internet service providers (ISPs) to help end illegal music downloads, according to The Hollywood Reporter. -via BBC News We should really make the life and times of the music industry into a book, specifically that of fiction. They still don’t seem to understand that there getting wrong, [...]

BTs Top Ten Causes For Slowness

I have been experiencing some heavy packet shaping by my usually pretty good ISP BT, when I emailed them to ask what was with the excessive packet shaping I got this reply. If there is an EMI then the connection may drop or you may experience slow browsing. Please make sure that the modem is [...]

BBC Clogging the Tubes

Senior executives, including BT Retail’s Ian Livingston, The Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone and Tiscali UK’s chief Mary Turner have held informal talks amid growing anger over the BBC’s hitching a ‘free ride’ with its new iPlayer system for downloading TV programmes over the web. Link Oh no the ISPs don’t like there bandwidth being [...]