BT Internet Sucks

Stop going over the cap, or pay for an ISP that offers higher caps?

I'm on ADSL24, and the 300GB cap costs £19.99 :)
 
Surely if BT Internet are annoying someone that much, then change. Though of course the OP's house would have to start paying for their extravagant bandwidth usage.

Personally, I've used BT Broadband since 2004 and found them to be reliable enough, my speed has dropped ever so slightly in the last year, but not enough to make me look elsewhere. Yet.

But the words 'unlimited' and 'up to 8mbps' when used in conjunction with broadband are almost scandalous.
 
Get Bethere.co.uk best ISP period :D No caps ADSL2+ service all for £19 unlimited usage and no throttling or the like.

Ill echo somebodys reply above is that you get what you pay for, if it’s free you really don’t have a right to complain, move somewhere else.
 
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[FnG]magnolia;11834924 said:
How do you find them? They connect me on Wednesday :-)
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Amazing, the user control panel is very very detailed and the support is great.
 
daz said:
With BBC iPlayer, 4OD, Youtube, Gametap, Sky On Demand - it's very very easy these days to run up a lot of data transfer.
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Exactly. I love how people assume that people with large monthly usage are automatically pirates.

Each iPlayer download is like 900MB, and add 4oD and ITV Catch up so on.

Now imagine if there is more than one person in the house.
 
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markyp23 said:
They are the same as all Entanet retailers - good. Except at weekends and at 10pm-midnight.
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Depends what you class as good.

When I was with Pipex, gaming was affected by the peak time rush. With UKFSN, the anti-loss tool on the Enta network means that only very rarely is gaming/voip affected, but your leeching speed will drop at peak times.
 
EVH said:
Stop going over the cap, or pay for an ISP that offers higher caps?

I'm on ADSL24, and the 300GB cap costs £19.99 :)
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Bt still shape like mad regardless of whether you go over the cap or not. I wouldn't be suprised if they shape their uncontended services as well as they love doing it so much.
 
My BT is good, but when downloading my speeds are pretty miserable most of the time. Its strange because my brother was downloading a patch via torrent and getting 300kb/s, I tried and only got 13kb/s :(
 
seek said:
I'm on Tiscalli, which is worse than BT in my experience.
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Not really had many problems with Tiscali.

Unless you're talking about them blocking P2P ports... and they do throttle the connection... quite a lot... sometimes.
 
markyp23 said:
Each iplayer download is nowhere near 900MB.
Just started an hour download of "Child of Our Time" to check. It claims 600MB, infact it is 492MB.
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My family of three can hit 50GB a month easy without resorting to Torrents and it's only me who is the real serious Internet user.

So I was out by a couple of hundred MB on the iPlayer file size? A family watching a lot of Internet TV can rack up a serious amount of data.

Stop being pedantic and grasp the concept that in the current media heavy Internet it is easy to breach bandwidth caps and not everybody who does is a "pirate"
 
We never had any problems with BT apart from the price - must have got through at least 80GB of transfer one month and they never complained. Now we're with Sky and although it's cheaper and slightly faster, we have the 40GB bandwidth limit :(

It's easy to run up 25GB in a month - that's really nothing if you watch lots of video, etc. There are plenty of legal ways to be using that much bandwidth - iPlayer, game demos, ISOs, legal music, podcast and movie downloads. Besides, how is it relevant if you're a pirate? The discussion is about ISPs who brand their service as 'unlimited' when it isn't, whatever you choose to download on it.
 
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