Re: Virgin net - What is a contract


"Ed" <ed@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Brian" <bj[hyphen]edwards[at]tiscali[dot]co[dot]uk> wrote:
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> > "... we do reserve the right to apply a £50 cancellation charge if your
> > service is cancelled within 12 months of activation. "
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> Believe me, you won't want to cancel. Because Virgin has hard caps
> (3 GB, 6 GB and 20 GB) it doesn't attract the PPPoA (Peer to Peer
> Parasites of ADSL) crowd, thus maintaining a fast service at all times.
> I get a full 60 KB/sec on binary groups, which is as fast as my 512 kbps
> connection will allow. I used to use Tiscali on dial-up and their Usenet
> feed was utter garbage.
>

Firstly what on earth does PPPoA have to do with Peer to Peer?
Secondly, why is a P2P downloader a parasite whilst a binary downloader
presumably is not?
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