Best ISP for gaming?

Completely depends on what you have available on your local exchange. If you have it, Be (whether from Be themselves or a reseller such as Xilo) will probably be your best bet.

If you can get it, of course Virgin would be even better.
 
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Would probably say sky over be atm, at least until they've done their badly needed network upgrade. On the other hand sky love forcing you to use their router, from which extracting your name and pwrd can be a royal pain.

If it's low pings over bandwidth you need then zen or related companies. Also consider business broadband. It's not that much more expensive, sometimes not even a fiver, you get less subscribers, far better support - usually with guaranteed fix time etc.
 




Sadly though the superhub is by far the worst piece of kit i have had the misfortune of being given >.> can't use in modem mode as i don't have another router for the other people in the house. But i've never had issues with VM for gaming
 
MilanoChris said:
I wouldn't touch Virgin media with a bargepole unless you're in a congestion free area.
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I'd agree but i'm sure people around my area don't care about the faster packadges, Got a mate who never get's higher than 32mb on his 60mb line as he lives near a lot of students XD
 
+1 for ADSL 24, they are not supplied by entanet any more as they were strating to flag heavy users and reduce connections, now with Murphex (or similar spelling). The thing I like is that you can manually choose your interleaving setting from your user controll pannel. Turn off for better pings or turn on for stability. I keep mine on as I like to play with the SNR for better speeds but even with it on most of my CSS servers come in 25-30 ms
 
Manchester M20 - example of a **** area for VM. My post below shows the differences between BeThere and VM 100mbit running at the same address.

FrenchTart said:
My new internet was installed yesterday. First graph is VM, 2nd graph is Be.
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The VM Graph is looking a bit better than it has done for a while (perhaps they're actually improving things) but it is still unusable for gaming. On the other hand, Be is absolutely awesome for browsing and gaming...and their CS is light years ahead of VM.
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Thought I would add to this thread rather than starting a new one.

Currently with vm 60mb package but suffering from very bad peak time ping issues and lag/rubber banding when playing bf3.
After a few phone calls to vm cs they finally agreed there is a problem with over utilisation.
They can't give a fix date and I've been waiting a week and still haven't been given a date for whenever in the future this may be fixed so I'm thinking I may have to change ISP.

I'm able to get bt and sky's fibre options in my area and as I have sky tv it would be easier to package it all together and would like to know others opinions on ISP especially anyone who has experience of the sky fibre broadband.

Many thanks.
 
Orcvader said:
Sky Fibre is one of the best packages so considering you already have their TV, go for it.
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BT is actually a tenner cheaper pm, for the "top-of-the-range" service and the only advantage Sky have is that they don't throttle P2P (I don't use P2P anyways! ;) )
 
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