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UPC Broadband (move away from Magnet?)

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  • 09-07-2010 3:15pm
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    B0rG
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭


    Got a phone call from UPC sales rep today about their new broadband package 30M/3M, cosing EUR 42. All sounds nice, however:

    * I asked him what type of IP address: static or dynamic? He spoke to somebody else and said - definitely static. Hard to believe they give residential customers static IP addresses.

    * I asked him about download limits he said "Unlimited". Then I asked about fair usage policy, then he said - somewhere about 300 or 400Gbytes a month.

    Didn't ask him the following may be someone here can help me:

    * do they throttle traffic? Restrict certain ports etc?
    * what about incoming traffic? I.e. if I open an FTP for a friend to use or setup a small web site for a bunch of friends? Will the incoming 80 and 21 go through?
    * what's with Torrents and Emule? I'm not really heavy downloader recently, but sometimes I like to get few hundred gigs.

    May be if all is that good I should finally move away from Magnet...
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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,300 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    B0rG wrote: »
    Got a phone call from UPC sales rep today about their new broadband package 30M/3M, cosing EUR 42. All sounds nice, however:

    * I asked him what type of IP address: static or dynamic? He spoke to somebody else and said - definitely static. Hard to believe they give residential customers static IP addresses.

    Their dynamic, but sticky, you'll have the some one for quite a while normally.
    * I asked him about download limits he said "Unlimited". Then I asked about fair usage policy, then he said - somewhere about 300 or 400Gbytes a month.

    It's 250 gigs. Go over that repeatedly and they move you to the unlisted and more expensive ultra package.
    Didn't ask him the following may be someone here can help me:

    * do they throttle traffic? Restrict certain ports etc?
    * what about incoming traffic? I.e. if I open an FTP for a friend to use or setup a small web site for a bunch of friends? Will the incoming 80 and 21 go through?
    * what's with Torrents and Emule? I'm not really heavy downloader recently, but sometimes I like to get few hundred gigs.

    May be if all is that good I should finally move away from Magnet...

    There's long been claims that they port throttle, but there's also been claims that it's done by region and not universal. All I know is my torrents run fine. I've never seen any mention of blocking port 80 or 21.


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