purple rain

I have installed expat sheild so I can watch UK programs on BBC I payer.
All was going well but for the last week it won't let me watch any programs and comes up with a message 'insufficent bandwidth'
Any suggestions??????

derf

Have you been capped? If slowed then you may not have the bandwidth needed to view the programs. No more TV till the start of the next billing cycle.

purple rain

I will have to call our provider to check, I thought we had unlimited

derf

There is unlimited and unlimited. There a a few real unlimited deals about but they are very uncommon now. The usual unlimited deal will slow you down after a fixed amount of data has been downloaded. They will not cut you off, so in theory you can continue downloading all you want, hence your deal is unlmited, just very slow.


Who is your ISP?

purple rain

Big pond, we are supposed to have an unlimited package with them!!!

deb68

Take a butchers at this old but still relevant info...http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/...roud-of-it.ars

mulben

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/articl...ed_unlimited_/

From the above article

You forgot Bigpond's "Unlimited" plans. $89.95 a month for "unlimited" downloads, except you get capped to 64kbps (a whisper faster than dialup!) after 24gb.

derf

In the last few months bigpond have improved thir plans a lot. They have just forgotten to tell those on the old poor plans.

If you have your land line with bigpond you save $10 on the monthly bill and another $10 if you have your mobiles with them.

They offer a adsl2+ 50g plans for 69.95 ( minus the land line and mobile reductions). Or a 100g plan ( but I cannot remember the costs.


So get on to them and tell them they either give you the better plan or you will churn to TPG or IINET.

Loch Lomond

With Bigpond you can just go online and change your plan. i did this recently the plan I was on was ADSL 25gb at $79.95 month, and I changed to ADSL2 50 gb month for $69.95 month.

purple rain

I shall Bigpond tomorrpw, cheers for the comments