Best Isp's for file sharing??

Hey all!!

I do not know if this topic has ever been hit on before, but if so, please excuse the repeat here, and feel free to post your thoughts about this subject. I have been file sharing like a madman for years... and with my old ISP received some unhappy letters... I have been with my current provider for several years, and have not had any troubles. I currently use DSL, and the speeds are ok, but I have been thinking of shifting to cable, and going with voip phone that the cable company offers. I know it will be faster, and even cheaper, but I enjoy the fact that I have pretty much had free rain to do as I wish with my internet connection under my current provider, and they have not bothered me at all... My concern of course is that if I go cable, I will also attract more attention to myself, in some ways, defeating my intentions.

So I am appealing to you all for your insites. Please let me know what you think of your current or past ISP, and lets see if there is some consensus as to the best choice for an ISP if you like to engage in file sharing... Thanks in advance for your comments.:01:

My ISP encourages piracy. :)
One of their advertisements is quite impressive.
"You can download a movie in 1 minute!" LOL
Yes, it's 100/100 fiber ad.

What country are you in? Surely best isps are different everywhere.

Well, living in the land of Cheese... Wisconsin.

Hughes Net!

I have the exact same questio and situation. I have been with [omit provider] for years now, DSL, sometimes downloading as much as 800GB in a month, no joke.
I have never heard a word.
Cox cable advertises a service which is cheaper and twice as fast, but will they let me DL like theres no tomorrow?

Bredband2 (Sweden) is probably one of the better ones. They don't say it straight up, but one can assume that they are as pro-filesharing as you can get.

Bredband2 is a part of Labs2. If I remember everything correctly, the CEO of Labs2 has been a guest (together with the CEO of former MP3-player company Jens of Sweden, and some representatives of the Swedish pro-piracy association Piratbyran, who are/were connected to the well known tracker PirateBay) in some live TV-debates about filesharing on Swedish television, where he, more or less, has expressed his support of filesharing.

They are also connected to the anonymity service called Relakks (https://www.relakks.com/?cid=gb).

In the US.. the best you can get is some good DSL or cable.

I know Cox Cable doesn't give a fck whatever you do.. i've downloaded hundreds of gb's with them :)

I'm now with att.com DSL, its pretty good.

I am in the US and used comcast,Quest Communications and Verizon and had no problems. DLd hundreds of GB's from all of them and not a word. None limit at all.

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Originally Posted by Nylan

Cox cable advertises a service which is cheaper and twice as fast, but will they let me DL like theres no tomorrow?

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my parents have a cox cable package similar to that. it's only cheaper b/c we have digital cable and their phone service, too. the internet speeds are so damn fast, though.

Ok, Cox I hear would be great, but unfortunately, it is not offered here in my area. Charter is, but again, I do not know how cool they are with file sharing. Anyone use Charter that can vouch to their coolness? I seem to recall several posts where people mentioned having receiving nasty letters from them... but I could be wrong. PC Mag ran a pretty decent article comparing ISP's. I would have to say, your ISP is probably as important a link in the chain any other component in your system. I am going to attach a picture from the article that rates the avg speeds of all of the major providers here in the US. Hope it sheds some light on the subject.http://lh3.google.com/image/joelfutc...JPG?imgmax=512

People have very few options for broadband ISPs: one ISP and 2 ISPs (local telco and local cable company) are the most common option (and in rural areas 0 broadband options are not infrequent). I suggest you look at Broadband Reports for the ISPs you actually have available. Here, for example, is a discussion of Comcast's invisible caps:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/82786