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Teki187

Teki187

Teki187

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11pm at night, and my internet is crawling to a halt.

The disconnection the other day for the entire day, the proposed changes to off peak / on peak.

Is it time to move to o2? Are they any better?
 
Teki187 said:
Is it time to move to o2? Are they any better?
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They're having a few problems at the moment but if you can get LLU then it would be worth trying as they have a 30 day money back guarantee anyway.
The o2 Access isn't so good - currently getting 100-200ms pings in games.
 
GSDog said:
They're having a few problems at the moment but if you can get LLU then it would be worth trying as they have a 30 day money back guarantee anyway.
The o2 Access isn't so good - currently getting 100-200ms pings in games.
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Sadly the LLU/21cn wont be enabled on my exchange until 2010...... So unless i move i'm stuck with 8mb.
 
I used several Broadband providers and the last was Entanet through VivaCiti and I would say that the service was the best I received. But due to slow downs I moved on to cable with Virgin Media about 9 months ago and have never looked back. 19000 kb/s day or night and low latency.
 
I think enta have said over at think broadband that the new IPSC platform will be fully stabilised within a week but i would be careful if moving to another provider as they will all be moving to this new platform soon ish
 
daveyp said:
I think enta have said over at think broadband that the new IPSC platform will be fully stabilised within a week but i would be careful if moving to another provider as they will all be moving to this new platform soon ish
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What is IPSC? And whats so different?
 


The joys of Virgin Cable! Only complaint is upload is a little shoddy compared to d/l but that seems normal.

It's about £17 a month atm I think.

Downloads are constant throughout the day and night, doesn't seem to throttle.

Back at home my parents are using BT broadband, can vary from 7mbps when it was installed (many years ago), to 4mbps max now, and normal about 2.4mbps with lows of 1.2mbps. Pretty bad. None of the customer service of either BT or Virgin were any good though, neither seem to have any idea what they're talking about.
 
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alexhull24 said:


The joys of Virgin Cable! Only complaint is upload is a little shoddy compared to d/l but that seems normal.

It's about £17 a month atm I think.

Downloads are constant throughout the day and night, doesn't seem to throttle.

Back at home my parents are using BT broadband, can vary from 7mbps when it was installed (many years ago), to 4mbps max now, and normal about 2.4mbps with lows of 1.2mbps. Pretty bad. None of the customer service of either BT or Virgin were any good though, neither seem to have any idea what they're talking about.
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The problem with Virgin is their Traffic Management.
http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

So does this not affect you?
 
Demon said:
The problem with Virgin is their Traffic Management.
http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

So does this not affect you?
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Yeah, interesting you should bring that up, I looked into it a lot when applying for the contract.

I don't download more than say, 2GB at a time, and when I do it's usually past 10-11pm anywaym so I don't have a problem at all with that. The connection is used for browsing, work, occassional iplayer. I do download some big things, but not often. Last thing was Fear 2 demo, and Windows 7 BETA.

Not too worried about losing download speed either, i'm used to much slower, so even if I did go over it'd be ok. It's only temporary.

All in all, a good package for people who don't torrent/usenet stuff all day long, nice and fast when you need it to be.

EDIT: I'm on L btw. I wouldn't consider not using cable BB if I was in a cabled area, it seems much more reliable than ADSL too in my experience. Shame that my parents are not in a cable area.

I whole-heartedly recommend this to anyone with access on the condition that you don't torrent a lot like probably most people on here. Even if you did, you could probably take the speed hit, it's really only small.
 
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i also have virgin 20mbs cable and web pages take ages to load no matter what dns i use and i max out the full 20mbs line but using bittorrent doesnt want to play ball either but my enta connection is superb.
 
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I guess it effects different people in different ways. Im in Maidenhead as well. My daily & evening browsing is fine, never noticed any issues. By 10pm my torrent pc starts it scheduled downloads when the offpeak cap comes into play & I dont really use the pc much after that so never notice any slowdown.
I went enta mainly because of their generous limits, I think 60gb peak & 300+gb off peak & the static ip /29 subnet for free.
As for NTL, well I had them 8 years ago and never never never again will I have their hopless internet/tv/phone package in my house again. Not under any circamstances :mad: ever.
 
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