- IPStream or Datastream?
- Posted by DB. on January 13th, 2005
A friend is considering signing-up for ADSL service using an ISP
that provides using DataStream. Should he be advised against that? Is
an ISP that uses IPStream to be preferred?
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- Posted by Paul King on January 13th, 2005
DB. wrote:
Perhaps this will answer your question 
http://www.proweb.net/proweb_ipstream.html
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- Posted by Tom Warner on January 13th, 2005
Paul King <paul.g.king@theobviousdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
Is there a list or easy way to find out who does what as far as IP or
DataStream is concerned?
All the best,
Tom
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- Posted by David G on January 13th, 2005
DB. wrote:
From what I have seen of Datastream you should run very fast in the
opposite direction. V21 in particular have suffered since converting to
Telefonica. See their forums
http://www.v21.co.uk/forum/display_f...asp?ForumID=29
There is a thread here on ISPreview
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/show...0&page=1&pp=10
and have a look here
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/new/complain/complain.shtml
for the most complained about ISP's. All to my knowledge use datastream.
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- Posted by Peter M on January 13th, 2005
On 13 Jan 2005 in uk.telecom.broadband, David G wrote:
While I, as a user, of Tiscali's Datastream service, via another ISP for
billing, have no complaints and can run my 1000 kbps at full capacity if
I need to, for hours at a time. Not one for peer-to-peer, but streaming
films, webcams, audio/'radio' and binary news. Indeed, there've been a
few times when this PC has been "pulling" the full 1500 kbps available
(using both network connections I have).
If he wasn't too busy, perhaps Jason Clifford (who runs UKFSN) would be
happy to comment about the service reliability - he's the 'customer' of
Tiscali's "ISP to ISP" product and presumably would be losing customers
if there were significant/noticeable problems with the DataStream links
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- Posted by ian on January 13th, 2005
DB. wrote:
IPstream it comes via a bt home-gateway router into the isp's network
Data-stream is delivered via ATM (in our case) which gives an isp more
control over contention bandwidth etc. I would also have thought that most
isp's use the same upstream bandwidth for both .
The most important question is one you cant answer until you have DSL. That
it how many people on your VP spend all day downloading and hogging the
pipe.
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