Freeola stop unlimited broadband!

[Harrison]

There is some good news regarding my Freeola connection. When they switched me from the uncapped service to the capped service they switched it from the older fixed speed service to the newer Broadband Max service. As I am so far from the exchange it has only increased the download speed from about 1.5Mbit when it was running on the older 2Mbit maximum speed broadband, to just under 3Mbit/s, but at least the upload speed has gone up from the old 256Kbit/s to 448Kbit/s which is about 56KB/s, which will definitely help out with my ratios when seeding torrents on private trackers

I've decided now that I am going to wait until the 10 day period when the final line speed of the MAX connection has settled down and then I will know what the actual line speed can handle so can get a package from a different ISP for only what the line can handle and hopefully can save some money that way. After all, there is no point paying for an 8Mbit Broadband MAX package when my line might only manage a maximum of 3Mbit.

[Harrison]

I've now read on a few different websites that to get the fastest speed allocated to a Broadband MAX line during the first 10 day period where the exchange adjusts the line speed to get the best results you need to try and maintain a maximum download speed for as much of those 10 days as you can. This is going to be such a hardship needing to max out my downloads.

[Submeg]

Lol, thats pretty funny. Hmm...so you want me to download? Ok..

[Harrison]

Well I'm going quite well so far. Have downloaded 30GB since the 1st March.

I've not yet seen much adjustment in the download rate though as it is still around 3Mbit. Not that great considering the fastest possible speed is 8Mbit, but it's not bad considering how far I live from my exchange and it is still roughly double the speed I was getting before.

[Submeg]

Thats alright, I wish when Im at my gf is was constantly high...