Permanet broadband

watty

Everyone should have to quote:
Off peak average (3am .. 5am)
Office hours average (9am .. 11am)
Peak Time home Average (7pm .. 9pm)

Specs quoted should be (for each of these times)

• Upload speed
• Download speed
• Average latency and % Latency Jitter average
• % Packet loss Upload
• % Packet loss Download
• Type of IP (Static, Dynamic, Shared)
• Explicit Fair Use Policies, no "hidden" caps should be allowed. All caps and throttle schemes should be explicit and transparent. Caps should be rolling 30 days and separate for upload and download.

It should be explicit if self hosting at all or specific services are not allowed (Torrents, Video Stream(VLC, Media Encoder, Orb, Slingbox & etc), Web, FTP, VPN, POP, SMTP, IMAP ) "servers", not clients. Or even VOIP (SIP, Skype etc which is also a kind of self hosting/Service).

Security:
MS dangerous ports should be blocked (137 etc) but NO other port blocking, unless totally obvious as part of "Fair Use Policy".

Anti-Spam Engine:
SMTP port (in or out) by default should only work with the ISP's own server (which should demand user name & password), but be unblocked to Internet by request from user.


Packages should be rated as
Casual Browser / Email: Can use shared IP and almost all port blocking. No self hosting. SMTP & MS port limitations as above. Explicit Traffic cap.

Power User/Home Office/Small Business: Never a shared IP, but can be Dynamic IP. Only MS dangerous ports blocked by default. May have self hosting limitations in FUP. SMTP limitation as above. May have traffic cap.

Corporate: No ports at all blocked by default, not even the dangerous MS port. No Fair use policy. No Traffic Cap. Static IP. No self hosting limitations. No SMTP limitation.

It shouldn't be allowed to be called Broadband unless Latency < 70ms, Upload > 200kbps and Download > 500kbps and 100% ability to have a connection for all these at all 3 times periods.
(Thus EDGE/HSDPA/3G fails on Latency and Connectivity, Satellite fails on Latency).

(Latency and speed all measured to same agreed Irish server such as heanet as it can be much worse to arbitrary UK, US or Irish servers even for a very good connection)

barnicles

Can you run torrents on their home packages?

No, well not properly anyway since you're on a private IP. Even their business packages are private IPs unless you specifically ask for a static IP.