My one is awful. At the best days I can run a game without too much trouble, but they are normally bad days where I get lots of lagspikes and can't get into a damn game.
I don't live in Britain but everyone seems to bitch about BT constantly, so I'd say you're not alone.
Mine was so shit they cut us off accidently and wouldn't reconnect us for 4 weeks, we now have Sky Phone instead of BT, even though some goes to BT for the line rental etc :@
As for the internet, get Plusnet, no problems what so ever, the pro package anyway.
Mine's OK. A lot of the time they cap me to 1mbit during peak times, which is a major annoyance, but ping couldn't be better.
The BT Home Hub, however..
I don't know what BT is.
Bad but they're the best available at my location unfortunately they enjoy capping us because of fair use policy
I love it when people use abbreviation and never explains what they mean.
[QUOTE=Abmaktslave;23829910]I love it when people use abbreviation and never explains what they mean.[/QUOTE]
British Telecom.
[QUOTE=Leg of Doom;23829769]Bad but they're the best available at my location unfortunately they enjoy capping us because of fair use policy[/QUOTE]
Plusnet my friend, plusnet
Hardly any downtime, but they throttle like hell 6pm-12.
Their home hub keeps on cutting out if i (for example) open a page where there are a lot of pictures. It's very annoying.
It's okay. It's not hugely fast - best download speed would probably be something like 700KB/s (kilobytes, not bits) - but for the most part, it has been very stable and fine for stuff like gaming.
There was one period where it was constantly fucking up, and that was kind of a nightmare, but it turned out to be a fault with a piece of hardware on our end. The trick is convincing them to send an engineer out to fix it.
It's pretty good for my family/area, we've been with BT for ages and the worst we've had was a Homehub that kept shutting off (They sent us the new model since which is much better) and throttled speeds for a few months after I repeatedly crossed the 100gb "Fair Usage Policy" limit.
Download speeds are around 7-800kbps but at peak times can be right down to 1-200 :( Best I ever got was at 1am Morning, 1.2mbps :D
It's average. I wouldn't recommend it any more than I would recommend any other one - But I haven't tried any of the others, so that doesn't count for much.
It's the only local service I have, though, and I don't fancy paying to have optic fibre laid.
I haven't noticed anything wrong with my service in the past. I switched to it from Tiscali - and comparing them both: BT is much better.
I have a BT home hub. It makes me [b]RAGGGGE[/b], it's like:
Oh hey? Playing Tf2? NOT ANYMORE *Click* disconnect. Then it has epilipsy and refuses to connect to the internet for ~10 minutes.
My home hub works fine, mind you my PC uses Wifi N and also our internet speed is at the max.
I get 2Mb/s down and 0.15Mb/s up. Others in my area get anything from 2 to 10 Mb/s down and they are on lower packages that us (we managed to get a free upgrade to 8Mb/s somehow). My latency is usually fine and the line quality is always good on speedtests, but the speed is atrocious for this day and age. They haven't touched our Exchange in ages, so the only other providers we get through it have to piggyback BTs line, making their prices higher for the same connection.
It's a joke sometimes, I swear.
My range is 900kb-2MB.
But hey it loads at a moderate speed and i can play games online with a ping of 30-50.
So it's bearable.
Horrible. We've had to get two new homehubs.
[i]In two weeks.[/i]
However, we're getting the service for free so you get what you pay for I suppose.
This thread is depressing :saddowns:
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