Guest jimp Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 Talktalk have recently started to offer "free" broadband with one of their phone packages. What they do not make clear, however, when you are signing up for their 18 month contract, is that certain ports are either blocked entirely or restricted. For gamers, this means that Steam - the most popular online game content delivery system in the world - doesn't work. It also means you can't use bittorrent etc. They advertise themselves as "gaming friendly" and proceed to disable the most popular single player games (Half Life, Half Life 2) and the most popular multi player games (Counter Strike, Day of Defeat etc.). The games may work if your Steam account is up to date, but Steam cannot update and so, if you use Steam then it *will* stop working with Talktalk. Moral: you get what you pay for and anyone interested in using their PC for games or (legal) file sharing should not use Talktalk. I am contacting trading standards next week re: their "gamerfriendly" false claims.
ROCKAPE Posted November 22, 2010 Member ID: 4 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 172 Topic Count: 1107 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 5185 Content Per Day: 0.90 Reputation: 3128 Achievement Points: 43910 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 15 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 06:20 PM Birthday: 08/16/1967 Device: Windows Posted November 22, 2010 Shocking news good luck with your complaint. Awards
NightmareXI Posted November 22, 2010 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Posted November 22, 2010 good to know if you live in the UK.... it shows me again no provider is gonna make a present for free.... we have some provider here in germany who ask you to switch to other providers if you are causing too much data traffic Awards
Guest jimp Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 Chinese-style Great Firewall of Britain.
Guest jimp Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 There are several ISPs which block ports required for the proper operation of Steam and Steam games: 012.net (Steam traffic blocked) Bluewin (Firewall blocks Steam from provider side - must be disabled through provider's service portal) Dutch Telecom (Steam traffic blocked) ISPFree (Steam traffic blocked) Micronet Broadband (Steam traffic blocked) TalkTalk (bandwidth throttling reduces download speeds) There are connection issues with certain ISPs that can be avoided depending on what type of cable/DSL modem and router you have.
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 22, 2010 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.10 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted November 22, 2010 For all its faults, PlusNet (www.plus.net), an independent subsidiary of British Telecom, is transparent about its services and tells potential users what they can expect from their packages. The description of an Internet connection as "up to 8 Meg" or "up to 20 Meg" is simplistic. Depending on the time of day, it is likely that many services will be throttled back. Fortunately, if one chooses the right package, this does not include gaming or streaming which are provided at "line speed" 24/7. Having had to deal with TalkTalk to get a disabled relative's line fixed, I can't say that I would ever consider signing up with them, personally... Awards
Ricko Posted November 22, 2010 Member ID: 138 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 63 Topic Count: 476 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4472 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2925 Achievement Points: 30771 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Birthday: 07/01/1974 Device: Android Posted November 22, 2010 virgin media all the way baby 50 meg woot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awards
baldie Posted November 22, 2010 Member ID: 607 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 76 Topic Count: 246 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3367 Content Per Day: 0.59 Reputation: 2718 Achievement Points: 34252 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/21/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 08:04 PM Birthday: 09/16/1966 Device: Windows Posted November 22, 2010 Ricko virgin media all the way baby 50 meg woot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here here mate me too and 100 meg coming at christmas yeah baby Awards
Dark Asylumn Posted November 22, 2010 Member ID: 809 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 41 Topic Count: 252 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2840 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 1032 Achievement Points: 20424 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/29/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Birthday: 06/25/1979 Device: Windows Posted November 22, 2010 baldiemeat Ricko virgin media all the way baby 50 meg woot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here here mate me too and 100 meg coming at christmas yeah baby congrats and eat me we just got 10 meg woot woot Awards
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