• Sick of BT Broadband - ISP Suggestions?
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I would say Virgin Media, but their customer support and management is absolutely shit, they accidentally cancelled all our tv and internet services for a week. This isnt all...
Entanet, I use UKFSN. [url]http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php[/url]
I'm on BE, switched from BT. You have to ignore EVERYTHING BT tell you over the phone, according to BT 2Mb is the max speed I can handle on my lines. After swapping to BE i'm currently rollin on 16Mb on the same lines :D
[QUOTE=sbradford26;19596697]You think you UKers have slow speeds the US is worse. I have 1.5 meg internet it sucks.[/QUOTE] Our infrastructure sucks :frown:
What's wrong with virgin? I'm on virgin and I'm getting good speed 1mb/s
Everyone says BE, but I can't find their site on google.
[QUOTE=johanz;19630554]Everyone says BE, but I can't find their site on google.[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/homepage[/url] I googled BE internet First link
Im on virgin media, and they're really good. I dont really always get my top speed of 20mbp/s, but they have excellent technical support, they come out to you really fast and have a good service.
Everyone I know says Be. Just stay the hell away from Tiscali.
i went from BT to Sky Best desicion i ever mad
[QUOTE=CammieDee666;19630866]i went from BT to Sky Best desicion i ever mad[/QUOTE] Please tell me this is trolling. :ohdear:
Have different ISPs come out to your house and run line tests. Go with the provider with the greatest speed-to-price ratio.
Only get Virgin Media if it's the XXL package. If not get Be/o2
[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19630767]Just stay the hell away from Tiscali.[/QUOTE] I'm fucked then.
[QUOTE=kill3r;19595093]Virgin Media :smug:[/QUOTE] :krad2:
You guys can complain all you want...But I'm still stuck on 2mb broadband and download at 250kb/s when I should be getting 24mb broadband. God, I hate Karoo :(
Been with NTL/Virgin media for 9-and-a-bit years now and I have never had any serious issues, and I've always got the speed I pay for! Plus, They mirror stuff on their servers, Meaning some things can be had from reliable servers at maximum speed!: [url]http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com/releases/[/url] [url]http://gamefiles.virginmedia.com/blueyondergames/[/url] [url]http://mirrors.virginmedia.com[/url] They really need to appoint a new person to maintain the mirrors though - (The linux ones seem to stay bang up to date though)
Virgin Media is fucking poison. I wouldn't go back to them if they fucking paid me. Their throttling rules for ADSL are horrible, and the executive director has spoken out openly against Net Neutrality. Be broadband is <3
[QUOTE=sbradford26;19596697]You think you UKers have slow speeds the US is worse. I have 1.5 meg internet it sucks.[/QUOTE] US is also a lot larger than the UK both land and population wise and is therefore harder to implement faster internet EDIT: I'm talking about like, better lines and fiber optics, not the speeds themselves
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;19596582]Virgin broadband kills your download speeds if you download more than a set amount during peak hours (it depends on which package you're on, on 10mb broadband I think it's 800 megabytes). Peak hours are between 4 and 9 I think. If you download more than this amount during this time your speeds are reduced to 2.5mb for 5 whole hours. Which makes gaming, watching youtube and iplayer a downright bitch (My Fakefactory Cinematic Mod 10 (I'll delete the Alyx models don't worry) download has been going for about 5 days now because my parents don't like leaving the pc on overnight and I have to download during peak hours). Other than that, the speeds are usually what they advertise, I get between 800 and 1200 kb/s for the most part, and it only occasionally dips below 500, and I live pretty far away from the local exchange. If you don't care about downloading huge files, then go with Virgin.[/QUOTE] I downloaded dod:s gmod hl2:ep2 in 15minutes @ 1.2mb/s then my internet dropped to 50kb/s Fun.
[QUOTE=kill3r;19595093]Virgin Media :smug:[/QUOTE] How was this dumb, I use Virgin media, and they are good
[QUOTE=tanthreecle;19595279]aite, Be it is.[/QUOTE] /end thread
[QUOTE=Robbazking;19635724]Whats the fastest internet connection you can possibly get to your home in uk? :o[/QUOTE] The fastest wide-reach service is Virgin Media's 50Mb XXL Package. [url=http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/virgin-media-200mb-by-2012-280708.html]Virgin have also trialed 200Mb Connections.[/url] The technology used to implement the 50Mb Service can go much faster. Of course you could become your own ISP, I'd love to see someone make that financially feasible though ;)
[QUOTE=EDDY TT;19643206]I'm fucked then.[/QUOTE] Tiscali is Carphone Warehouse now, which also runs TalkTalk and AOL UK (which I'm on) - they're not THAT bad. Also Be is a subdivision of O2 (which is owned by Telefonica), and I have been strongly recommended to change to O2 by the owner of: [IMG]http://imgkk.com/i/mSt.png[/IMG] Who obviously knows his stuff :P
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;19650333]Tiscali is Carphone Warehouse now, which also runs TalkTalk and AOL UK (which I'm on) - they're not THAT bad. Also Be is a subdivision of O2 (which is owned by Telefonica), and I have been strongly recommended to change to O2 by the owner of: [IMG]http://imgkk.com/i/mSt.png[/IMG] Who obviously knows his stuff :P[/QUOTE] O2 isn't owned by Telefónica, it is Telefónica. Also BE isn't a 'subdivision', they were bought by Telefónica, which isn't the same thing
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