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[rawsondsr]

 

[HerefordElite]

[metalhip]

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[metalhip]

oops  

[dispondent 1]

 

[dbug]

[Mr Skrunts]

Bit quicker for me during Peak usage time.

[RichB]

Virgin 10MB connection, can't fault it!  Always get a constant 10MB and downloading off Giganews it flies down at full speed any time of the day

[hp7166]

This is the best i can ever hope for living where i am. I used to have 512kbs untill 6 months ago when the few of us in the street complained to bt. We live right at the edge of the bt exchange which is around 10 miles away. It sucks!!!! I used to live in Cardiff and get 8mbs no problem but now live in the countryside with the sheep!!!!

[stuart30]

Looks like im lucky today on my 3G dongle.

[gwa]

Thats supposed to be a 16meg connection! the exchange is roughly 50 yards away! Sky are w@ank3rs!!

If my experience is anything to go by, it could well be more to do with bt than sky who rent the line from bt. The line in our road is 3.5km from the exchange, but has so much noise it sometimes drops to 500kbs which is worse than pants. This level of service has been the same with 3 different providers. Bt themselves who we left for oranges free service. They could not mach the speed to the level the line could take so all we got was errors and no service. So we left them for sky who now deliver the same level of service as bt, with the phone and tv we pay 36 a month. £4 a month less than we where paying bt for just the phone and broadband.
A total saving of £59 a month now that we dont pay bt's £25 broadband and £30 monthly phone bills.


But that still leaves us with a crap broadband connection due to the phone line, or rather bts crap exchange on the end of it as i understand it. So question is, what sp do we try next?... as the Mrs needs better service for work and they will pay for it. My thinking so far,

Virgin, quickest probably, but cant face their customer service.
O2, allegedly have their own, equipment in bt's exchange and is probably favourite but how to prove the service before the install?
Talk talk as 02
3G via the mobile phone network, im told this can be set up to work for all devices in the house, 2 wifi phones, 360, ps3, 2 lap tops and a pc we rarely use.

Anybody got any thoughts..? Tia.

Have you considered 'mobile broadband'? As your landline BB is cr@p it may worth considering but you'll have to be shrewd with your usage.

Just athought  

Edit: Sorry, just seen the other posting Re: your BB problems

[TheBoy]

Please remember that some ISPs ensure that popular speedtesters give them good results, and that real world will be different.

In the case of your ISP, Skruntie, they are king of the traffic shapers.

Evenings will cause slowdowns for most, due to the amount of contention on the backhauls.

As speeds increased accros the net I understand they all have enforced bandwith rules.

My limit is 15GB between 4 pm and Midnight.  I just hit 11.03 GB peak usage yesterday.  But my monthly access restarts tomoorw so I will hit the full 15 GB today.

Off peak they leave me alone, for that reason I am 100% with them, that is of course unless they change.

My speed test actually reported a slower speed then I was downloading at when I did the test this morning.

Plusnet are renown for the amount of traffic shaping they do, far worse than any other big ISP. Not knocking them for it, thats their model, and it protects the customer they want to keep (low users), and hurts the ones they want to drop (heavy users). Plusnet's problem has been shown time and time again, they have insufficient Central capacity (these puppies are over £1m per year), hence the extreme shaping.

If it works for you, brilliant

But my point remains, the speedtest means jack schmit (and ain't that great either)

[Mr Skrunts]

Please remember that some ISPs ensure that popular speedtesters give them good results, and that real world will be different.

In the case of your ISP, Skruntie, they are king of the traffic shapers.

Evenings will cause slowdowns for most, due to the amount of contention on the backhauls.

As speeds increased accros the net I understand they all have enforced bandwith rules.

My limit is 15GB between 4 pm and Midnight.  I just hit 11.03 GB peak usage yesterday.  But my monthly access restarts tomoorw so I will hit the full 15 GB today.

Off peak they leave me alone, for that reason I am 100% with them, that is of course unless they change.

My speed test actually reported a slower speed then I was downloading at when I did the test this morning.

Plusnet are renown for the amount of traffic shaping they do, far worse than any other big ISP. Not knocking them for it, thats their model, and it protects the customer they want to keep (low users), and hurts the ones they want to drop (heavy users). Plusnet's problem has been shown time and time again, they have insufficient Central capacity (these puppies are over £1m per year), hence the extreme shaping.

If it works for you, brilliant

But my point remains, the speedtest means jack schmit (and ain't that great either)

Hence no complaints from me, but as said before, I do pay extra for the Premier service, and in all honesty they would love me to leave.  But I aint.  

[TheBoy]

Hence no complaints from me, but as said before, I do pay extra for the Premier service, and in all honesty they would love me to leave.  But I aint.  

I know a few premier PN customers, I'm not a fan of the service.  To get the best, unmolested service from PN, go for the PAYG (but obviously if you are a big hitter, will get crippled financially)

[Mr Skrunts]

Hence no complaints from me, but as said before, I do pay extra for the Premier service, and in all honesty they would love me to leave.  But I aint.  

I know a few premier PN customers, I'm not a fan of the service.  To get the best, unmolested service from PN, go for the PAYG (but obviously if you are a big hitter, will get crippled financially)

I downloaded 1.05TB in my last period ending yesterday, so they would make a fortune from me.