Finding BT contract period

dark_hag666

dark_hag666

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After coming to the conclusion that BT are rubbish, and expensive to boot, I now want to migrate.

I've been scowering through various e-mails to try an seen when the 12 month (I assume thats what the contract period is) contract is up.

Is there anywhere else that I can find it out, or should I just ring BT (I shudder at which foreign country I will be forwarded to)

Thanks
 
dark_hag666 said:
After coming to the conclusion that BT are rubbish, and expensive to boot, I now want to migrate.

I've been scowering through various e-mails to try an seen when the 12 month (I assume thats what the contract period is) contract is up.

Is there anywhere else that I can find it out, or should I just ring BT (I shudder at which foreign country I will be forwarded to)

Thanks
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What was your problem with BT? Have a few friends who seemed to be fine? Few dropouts, never really hassled about downloading etc, only thing is neither are gamers - are pings a problem? Have them on my line from Thursday so wouldnt mind knowing what issues you had!
 
They seem to have sorted the issues for some customers! Mostly their traffic shaping has been the problem, people seeing speeds consistently as low as 20-50k and apps such as ventrilo not working, in addition i had packet loss like crazy. Seems to have cleared up in the last week, for me at least, just hope your lucky and get a decent service.
 
Hmmm vent IS an issue downloads etc I get from newgroups so can get the SSL etc to avoid the bulk of the shaping. What are they like for gaming?
 
Mercutio said:
Hmmm vent IS an issue downloads etc I get from newgroups so can get the SSL etc to avoid the bulk of the shaping. What are they like for gaming?
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BT didn't and don't seem to shape newsgroups. They seem to be restricting HTTP to ridiculously slow speeds at weekends, and also weekdays after 5pm.
P2P apparently is also restricted to dial up speeds - although I never used P2P when I was with them - infact I never downloaded anything other than the odd game or demo.

I left BT last month and the service I get with my new ISP is 100 X better. I was on a line syncing at 8128kbps with an IP profile of 7150 when I was with BT, but at weekends was lucky to get 512K speeds. Browsing was absolutely terrible, extremely slow. I couldn't even watch videos on youtube without it buffering over and over again and the video's kept pausing.
That, and the terrible support is the reason why I left.

BT seems fine for gaming. Pings were not effected by the traffic shaping (although since moving my pings have reduced from 45ms to 10ms in BF2! mainly because interleaving was switched off becuase I didn't need it on my line). It was just HTTP that was the main problem. With 4 people in the house all using the net, and all use HTTP, it was HELL. It was sometimes worse than dial-up and there is no way I wanted to pay £26.99 a month for dial-up.

I am never going to make the mistake of going with such a large ISP again, who obviously cant handle all of there customers and have to have call centers abroad and use traffic shaping, etc.
 
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Main reasons that I'm looking to leave BT are, as mentioned by others, packet loss and obscenely slow speeds.

I'm looking at ADSL24 at the moment and I can get better than what I currently have for £10 less. I also fancy having a static IP so I can try my hand at getting a website up.
 
dark_hag666 said:
I also fancy having a static IP so I can try my hand at getting a website up.
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or you could use the 200mb webspace included for free with php/mysql support and 10gb monthly transfer. a little more useful than the geocities crap you get with bt. :D
 
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