BT Upto 8mb Unlimited.

ZeMole55 · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:22

I'm considering getting BT Unlimited, but I was just wondering how people already on this service would rate the speeds and the latency of pings while gaming?

I have been checking and I'm currently less than 3km from my exchange, which means my line will be roughly 3.5mbs (quoted from BT).

I'm just looking for a decent ISP with a decent connection for bits and bobs of downloading, but decent for gaming.

Cable is not a suggestion, as the congestion around my area is terrible, from 3pm - 12am speeds go from 4mb to <1mb and loads of packetloss, high pings and poor speeds.

WotDa · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:47

Not useful, apparently.

ZeMole55 · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:53

LLU xDSL - Tiscali and Sky/Easynet.

Currently talking about going to Sky from Virgin Media, but was thinking about BT broadband and not Sky.

I dunno, i need some information!

Thanks.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:57

Funnily enough I'm waiting for this very BT upgrade to kick in either today or tomorrow. If the thread's still ticking along I'll spam my opinion of it.

Not happy that they transfer the broadband monthly charge on to the phone bill though... It'll be a nasty surprise in three months time.

WotDa · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:01

Not useful, apparently.

Jabbs · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:12

I would read into the bt unlimited thing as it won't be it will have a fup of some kind for sure, there is no true unlimited adsl connections now unless you pay a premium and go for business line.

ZeMole55 · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:13

All this looking for a new ISP around my area is stressing my brain.

Sky seems to look good, but so does BT.

Can anyone with either of these connections give me some info please?

ZeMole55 · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:15

Jabbs said:
I would read into the bt unlimited thing as it won't be it will have a fup of some kind for sure, there is no true unlimited adsl connections now unless you pay a premium and go for business line.

Well considering all I do is mainly game, and occasional download files, mostly MP3 files, Unlimited seems a good option.

But more to the point, latency is the most important. Been reading up that BT users get a good pings.

WotDa · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:20

Move to Sweden is my next option.

ZeMole55 · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:23

I'm sorry, but if you're not going to post anything usefull, please refrain from posting at all.

Thanks.

Tombo · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:24

What are people's experiences with NTL ? I've been using them for 4 years and their 4MB is unlimited and I always get the max speed possible. Am I lucky ?

ZeMole55 · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:28

Tombo said:
What are people's experiences with NTL ? I've been using them for 4 years and their 4MB is unlimited and I always get the max speed possible. Am I lucky ?

Yes you are. From 12am - 3pm, I get no problems at all, speed is always at 4mb, pings low and no packetloss.

between 3pm - 12am, <1mb speeds, high pings and bad packetloss. Had endless phonecalls with them, and they seems to blame it on my PC all the time.

I know it's a bandwidth problem, but it makes the internet impossible to use at the times I can only use it.

WotDa · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:31

ZeMole55 said:
I'm sorry, but if you're not going to post anything usefull, please refrain from posting at all.

Thanks.

Oh I'm sorry, enjoy your FUP'd, throttled BT Broadband.

ZeMole55 · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:36

WotDa said:
Oh I'm sorry, enjoy your FUP'd, throttled BT Broadband.

Well if you have any useful information regarding the matter of my question, then all the help will be appreciated.

But you're not really helping when you say "move to sweeden".

JaFFa · 27 Mar 2007 at 19:38

nah forget it - im confused.

Tony Williams · 27 Mar 2007 at 20:02

Look HERE at the differnet ISPs that are rated. If you don't download that much I would go for something cheap even if it means a cap since gaming doesn't eat up that much bandwidth.