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will13 said:
Will the traffic management affect gaming at all though or just downloading?
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It doesnt affect gaming. (BT Infinity)

BE are a good ISP. But I switched to BT, becuase it was overall cheaper and I was more than doubling my speed.

When BE get a fibre solution of their own, then I may be tempted to switch back.
 
opethdisciple said:
It doesnt affect gaming. (BT Infinity)

BE are a good ISP. But I switched to BT, becuase it was overall cheaper and I was more than doubling my speed.

When BE get a fibre solution of their own, then I may be tempted to switch back.
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Ah that's good then
MissChief said:
I love that no one has read anything the OP has said and has recommended anything and everything he can't get.
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Haha its fine :)

Anyway narrowed it down to BT or Plusnet with the Pro addon

Leaning towards Plusnet since they seem better suited, and they have no cap from 12-8am for not much more
 
If you want something a bit off the wall maybe consider an entanet reseller as they are very stable for gaming and let you disable interleaving. I'm with Vivaciti and have found their tech support pretty rapid (and UK based). If you take a Business package it is unlimited 8pm-8am and all weekend, one of the better bog standard <8mbit ADSL packages on the market IMO.

Obviously depends a bit on how much you are swayed by cost, personally paying £23/month doesn't bother me at all, I was one of the very early adopters of 2mbit ADSL around 8-9 years ago and it cost me £58/month :). If something like BT Infinity was available here I'd happily pay say £80/month.
 
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HangTime said:
If you want something a bit off the wall maybe consider an entanet reseller as they are very stable for gaming and let you disable interleaving. I'm with Vivaciti and have found their tech support pretty rapid (and UK based). If you take a Business package it is unlimited 8pm-8am and all weekend, one of the better bog standard <8mbit ADSL packages on the market IMO.

Obviously depends a bit on how much you are swayed by cost, personally paying £23/month doesn't bother me at all, I was one of the very early adopters of 2mbit ADSL around 8-9 years ago and it cost me £58/month :). If something like BT Infinity was available here I'd happily pay say £80/month.
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Thanks HangTime, that sounds good, and no £20-25 is fine for me, I'll take a look at them
 
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I'm on a rural exchange and only get ADSL Max (up to 8MB). But regading ISP i have been with Zen for about seven years now, but in that seven years i have never known them to go down and they have been honest and reliable.
None of this traffic shaping malarky either, you get a set amount of GB to do what you want with.
They are expensive but you pay for what you get.

Anyway just throwing another ISP in the hat and sharing my experience, good luck!!
 
billyboyd said:
I'm on a rural exchange and only get ADSL Max (up to 8MB). But regading ISP i have been with Zen for about seven years now, but in that seven years i have never known them to go down and they have been honest and reliable.
None of this traffic shaping malarky either, you get a set amount of GB to do what you want with.
They are expensive but you pay for what you get.

Anyway just throwing another ISP in the hat and sharing my experience, good luck!!
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Hmm this is getting a tough choice, at first Plusnet seemed to be the best overall, but both Vivaciti and Zen look good

One quick question about Zen, is it unlimited usage in off peak times?, didn't see any mention of it on there website
 
billyboyd said:
I'm on a rural exchange and only get ADSL Max (up to 8MB). But regading ISP i have been with Zen for about seven years now, but in that seven years i have never known them to go down and they have been honest and reliable.
None of this traffic shaping malarky either, you get a set amount of GB to do what you want with.
They are expensive but you pay for what you get.

Anyway just throwing another ISP in the hat and sharing my experience, good luck!!
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I've been with Zen for around the same period and I have never really had a problem other than with a faulty HWIC card which messed up the BRAS on my line but this problem was quickly resolved by them. In terms of latency I have always had a sub 11ms response time, please see the below as a example.

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.91] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.246.91: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.58.246.91: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.58.246.91: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.58.246.91: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 212.58.246.91:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 10ms
 
Jay794 said:
Sky (reliablity)

Plusnet (price)

Virgin (speed)
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Implying he can get Sky and Virgin :rolleyes:.


Zen, IDNet and ADSL24 are very good and very stable but they cost a lot. From what I've heard they have brilliant customer support too.

It depends on how much your parents feel like paying, but I'm guessing they'll prefer the cheaper Plusnet option.
 
I've also been with zen for ages but I have experienced downtime, 99% of the time it's been down to BT. Most recent incident was also BTs fault, but Zen were OK - not great handing it, considering how much extra they charge compared to the low cost ISPs.
 
Orcvader said:
Implying he can get Sky and Virgin :rolleyes:.


Zen, IDNet and ADSL24 are very good and very stable but they cost a lot. From what I've heard they have brilliant customer support too.

It depends on how much your parents feel like paying, but I'm guessing they'll prefer the cheaper Plusnet option.
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It‘ll be me that's paying since I'm the one that wants a good ISP (there not really bothered about ping times and such :p)
 
Zen do have unlimited uploads on all their packages but downloads wise it is a set amount to do what you want with. You can *ahem* download a torrent at 7 in the evening and go as fast as your little line can carry you and if it does slow down you can bet it is down to congestion at the exchange and not traffic shaping.

The pro package is the most common with 100GB usage and at £35.74 (inc vat). I am on the medium business package and pay around £53. If you want unlimited or as good as ( 1TB ) then you are looking at close to £90.

Only ever had to use support once and that was to ask about my credit card, used the web talk chat box thingy and it was resolved quickly and politely.
 
Here's a vote for Plusnet, I have been with them for years and never felt the need to move away, price is not the issue either.
I can only get ADSL, nothing else as we are too rural, I'm lucky though as the exchange is only 800 metres away so I get 8mb. Plusnet CS is brilliant.
 
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