ours is good isnt it and we live in the sticks

This refers to a recently introduced 'low cost' 1mb connection for €29,99 per month not the full blown €39,99 service.

This appeared as an editorial on the Typically Spanish web site which is now, unaccountably, no longer available!

This is the full editorial:


The new cheap ADSL service from Telefónica is not all it seems

EDITORIAL COMMENT

We reported in our business news yesterday that Telefónica had launched a new 1MB internet ADSL service, with national phone calls for 29,90 € a month. We even said they had been congratulated by the European Commission for (finally) reducing prices.

It has been the previous policy of Telefónica to provide faster speeds to current clients for the same old price, rather than offering them any price reduction.

So all well and good with the new cheaper prices then? – er, well no.
Despite that there is no information to the effect on the advertising for the new Duo service, we can now tell you that there is a trick.

When you have downloaded more than 20 GB in a single month, Telefónica will automatically reduce the speed of your ADSL connection by 75%, back to 256Kbs in other words. The revelation came on the website www.adslzone.net where a Telefónica spokesman insisted that 90% of clients never use that much bandwidth – it’s about the same as five DVD disks. A company source is quoted as saying ‘To say 20 Gigas or without limit, is practically saying the same thing’. Really?

The slower speed avoids Telefónica having to declare that there is a limit on the download; there is no limit as such, only that things will slow down when you cross the 20 GB level.

Not being up front about that detail, even if it only effects 10% of users, does Telefónica no favours, and the Spanish Association of Internet Users has already said it will start legal action against the company for misleading advertising.

More information, in Spanish at www.adsl.net

Full blown? Blown up more like!

And who's to say that they're not applying the same criteria to others?

I tried doing a speedtest this afternoon, and I couldn't even get the page to load.....let alone do the test.

It has picked up a bit since then, and at the moment I'm tearing up the Information Superhighway at the incredible velocity of 140kbs.
My goddam face is distorted with the G Forces exerted on it. This is me on the webcam....

Update on this! Midas just rung me and they've been told by Telefonica that it´s not possible for them to supply me with any ADSL. Even though others in the town are with them. Go figure!

Well the almighty Telefonica controls all the lines. So if they don’t want you to place your custom elsewhere then you will not be able to! The rules here in Spain are not he same as the U.K.
But never give up try this and see if you can find a supplier.
http://www.adslworld.es/

I get this, can someone explain please.

Now you`ve really upset him.

I don't understand this kind of thing, what's it all about.

What do I do to get a speed test from my computer?

Your tinternet is about 20 times faster than xtremes.

Click on this link, then click the yellow triangle.

http://www.speedtest.net/

This is mine.

http://www.speedtest.net/

It didnt let me copy it to here.

Yes it does, where it says compare it to others, then I think it asks you to share

After it has finished, it shows the result and just under that it says share, click the copy button on the forum one, then paste it on the post.

Keep UP!!!! :-))