O2, Sky or BE?

RollerBall

RollerBall

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I'm changing my ADSL from Virgin to an LLU. The above three are the major hitters are my interchange I think. Sick of virgins dodgy BAM routes and drop outs.

It'll be in a student house (6 people with streaming/torrenting/gaming/etc) so it'll have to be unlimited. Will probably take out line rental with the company as well as it's easier. There's some impressive deals on sky atm (6 months free) and some with O2 (3 months free). BE I've only heard good things but it's quite a bit more expensive and there are no deals about.

O2 I've heard throttle p2p/torrents 24/7 rather badly? Is this true? Leaning towards sky atm.

Most important things are unlimited DLs, preferable no throttling at all and general speed.
 
I'm with O2 in my student flat and I have no throttling at all, although this is on an old package.

I would go with Sky though, they are truly unlimited and no throttling at all. It was £22.25 a month last time I checked, including line rental, but without Sky TV.
 
Sky has no FUP and no STM.
I can max my connection at any time of the day and theyve also said nothing about the amount of data useage up or down.
Been happy with them as my supplier.

You can also get £75 M&S Vouchers if a current user recommends you :)
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
Sky has no FUP and no STM.
I can max my connection at any time of the day and theyve also said nothing about the amount of data useage up or down.
Been happy with them as my supplier.

You can also get £75 M&S Vouchers if a current user recommends you :)
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Do you know if the £75 M&S voucher is valid with a Sky Broadband and Line Rental Package? Also that we would get the six months free?
If so fancy recommending us?
 
Not to worry Divine, found out you need the TV package aswell.
Glad to see the back of BT Infinity. Flipping £30+ quid a month for less than 5mb download speeds, plus countless hours and four appointments awaiting for their engineers to fix it. Who eventually told us we were too far from the box to get better speeds and said we shouldn't of been sold it in the first place.
Joined up with Sky and for the first six months it is £20 cheaper than BT and £10 cheaper there after.


Care to expand Leeroy?
 
I've been with O2 for three years now and they've been great. They're cheap, service is usually very reliable, never had any issue with throttling, P2P restrictions etc or letters about "fair usage".

My only complaint is the O2 Wireless Box, they can get a bit rubbish as soon as you start adding lots of devices to them, and the wi-fi signal is rather poor even on the newest box. Their support guys are pretty good though and I don't imagine it's any different with other ISPs, none of them appear to supply particularly good quality equipment.
 
Apparently I can get BT infinity in my area. No idea how as I didn't think we had fiber optic (can't get virgin optic). Have they screwed it up or are there areas you can get BT infinity (estimated us 76mb odd DL) but not virgin?

EDIT: I see they throttle P2P in peak times. How much throttling and what do they class as P2P? I don't want to be stuck having to wait til after 12pm to download a patch for a game.
 
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Torrenting is the only P2P they throttle. If you hardly do that then don't worry about it. For me though, the throttling is not that bad, I still get a good speed even during peak times.

BT Fibre is a completely seperate fibre network from Virgin's, while Virgin uses a cable to finish off the last part from the cabinet to your home, BT (and any others that uses BT's network) will still use the phoneline.

You could check Sky FTTC? They use BT's FTTC network so it should also be avaliable to you, and they don't throttle anything.
 
RollerBall said:
Apparently I can get BT infinity in my area. No idea how as I didn't think we had fiber optic (can't get virgin optic). Have they screwed it up or are there areas you can get BT infinity (estimated us 76mb odd DL) but not virgin?

EDIT: I see they throttle P2P in peak times. How much throttling and what do they class as P2P? I don't want to be stuck having to wait til after 12pm to download a patch for a game.
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I download more than 200 gig a day most days, ive never been throttled in 3 months. But i don't use torrent sites.
 
RollerBall said:
Apparently I can get BT infinity in my area. No idea how as I didn't think we had fiber optic (can't get virgin optic). Have they screwed it up or are there areas you can get BT infinity (estimated us 76mb odd DL) but not virgin?
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Neither of them are fibre. It's just a marketing term.

See if you can get Sky FTTC.
 
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