Oz A2Kers: Broadband advice needed rather urgently.

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I rather must the wee Felix, too! Smile

Must get onto it!

My IP company threatened to throttle me today!!!

A rather unnerving email arrived:

Subject: Throttle Warning

The body of the message was less alarming:

Quote:

Dear Customer,

Re: Customer xxxxx dlowan

Thank you for your continued interest in our Chariot Internet service.

This is an automatically generated email to advise you that you
have 20% or less of your peak download limit left until the
end of your monthly billing period (27/08/2009)

At the end of your allocation your peak service
will be throttled to 64 kbps.

Yours faithfully,
Chariot Internet

25/08/2009

I appreciate the warning....but is there not a more gentle way to put it?

Is throttle the general term?

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@dlowan,

well Debbie, that sounds better than being throttled by a snake.

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@dyslexia,

Indeed....but nonetheless a rather alarming term!!

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@dlowan,

well Debbie, I have read posts by another fellow on this forum that seems to think that being throttled can be a sexually exciting event. perhaps you and i are just exhibiting our puritanical heritage along with freudian suppression. actually with my COPD I feel throttled pretty much 24/7.

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@dyslexia,

If you keep calling me Debbie, you WILL be throttled.

I think throttling to heighten orgasm is a fairly well known technique.

I doubt if it much resembles being crushed and eaten alive by a python, or having COPD (though I am very sorry to hear you feel that way.)

I find its use in the ISP business odd.

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@msolga,

Are the 20 days about up yet? hamburgboy and I have been getting fretful without our MsOlga.

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@ehBeth,

Aw, really? Surprised

That's so nice, ehBeth.

After 7 days with no internet & no phone I'm happy to announce I'm back! WOOHOO!

Just spent something like half an hour on my cell phone with a very patient fellow, ironing out the the final glitches.

Now I'll untangle myself from all these cords around my ankles & go make a coffee to celebrate. Phew.

Ms Broadband, that's me!!! Very Happy