An ISP that doesn't throttle/cut out?

[Tonester0011]

Looking to change my ISP.
Currently got BE, they've been pretty much spot on for the last 2 years with 1 or 2 cut outs during peak times.....a year. They've since been taken over by Sky, the last couple of weeks have got progressively worse with cut outs/throttling happening several times in the space of a few hours.

They've reduced my bill what's good? Although i dont care for a few quid a month i'd very much rather a stable connection. I've checked FTTC and it reckons it's in my area and my cabinet is connected though the speeds are only marginally faster than ADSL. I'm content with those speeds if truth be told, what i want is stability, will switching to fiber get what i'm after or is it more to do with the actual ISP i buy from?

Any help much appreciated.

 

[233]

Sky

Never had a problem with them

In fact my connection has pulled down 800 gigs at max speed this week without a hiccup

 

[Tonester0011]

Sky

Never had a problem with them

In fact my connection has pulled down 800 gigs at max speed this week without a hiccup

Guessing that's sky fiber then
I'm technically using their ADSL package and getting a lot of drop outs, well. More than i would like.

 

[mhvcbv]

virginmedia here don't throttle.
Had for for about 4yrs and no problems with the 4 kids on it aswell

 

[On Holiday]

 

[SkodaMart]

Sky ADSL

Been great for me - hours and hours online playing WoT.

 

[Caged]

You need to work out what the drop outs are - if they are a sync loss then you've got a dodgy line which will exist regardless of your ISP choice.

 

[Tonester0011]

You need to work out what the drop outs are - if they are a sync loss then you've got a dodgy line which will exist regardless of your ISP choice.

How do i find that out?

 

[Rroff]

As caged said.

TBH BT are about as good as anyone and better than most when it comes to reliability or speeds even though they are lacking in other areas. I think I've had a total of 2 times with BT in over 15 years of having ADSL->FTTC where the line has gone down for any amount of time at all and even brief disconnects have been very rare other than the odd time line stability has changed.

 

[Christmas themed thank]

I'm going to be hated for saying this but...TalkTalk have been good for us.

 

[Caged]

How do i find that out?

Your router stats will tell you. You'll have an uptime for the router itself which should be months, one for the line and another for the actual connection.

 

[xb8browney]

Sky ADSL or Fiber

 

[Tonester0011]

Your router stats will tell you. You'll have an uptime for the router itself which should be months, one for the line and another for the actual connection.

I think you're right about my dodgy line, as others in this thread have the same ISP but getting no drop outs.

Spoiler

 

[86JR]

Zen Fibre Unlimited.

No RIAA/MPAA blocks either.

 

[_lecro_]

Never had a problem with sky.

 

[Awahwah]

BT, one fault which was the Open reach modem falling over. That was sorted within two days, even with the Indian call centre dealing with it.

Just signed up for another 12 months.

 

[Tony Williams]

Virgin media I get 2.5-3mB/s when 7.5 should be max. 60mb

on Newsgroups - I have now a VPN >100meg server and SSL

 

[jkb]

No throttling for me with BT fibre. I was with BE for years on ADSL until SKY bought them. I didn't see any degradation of service although I moved house to a fibre enabled area a couple of months after

 

[Devrij]

Sky have a policy of never intentionally throttling your line (just slow downs due to heavy use through the exchange if you are in a heavily subscribed area). Their CS is excellent (especially compared to Virgin and their overseas call centres I had to deal with years ago).