God, not another BT internet thread...

Just helped my neighbour shift from BT to Sky (who I'm with) and things have improved about 1000% since he did.

He was getting around 0.7mpbs at peak times with pings going through the roof and random disconnects and he was paying £37 p/m for the privelage.

Its now a tenner p/m and he's getting 15.5mb, low pings and a stable connection.

How BT even dare advertise that they offer ADSL is beyond me, the QOS is an absolute joke and the customer services are even worse...
 
Im with BT atm and apart from download limit (14gb per month that im struggling to stay under) ive been happy. Ive seen 3mb/s at peak times which is enough for me to browse, play games and download, to my satifiaction. Im trying to convince my dad to upgrade to unlimited with any company, but the problem I see is if I move from BT where do I go. I live near Belfast so most providers if not all should offer a decent service but which is the best? Without trying each one ive no true way of knowing what Actual speeds are.
 
What makes me really mad about BT is all the adverts for their upcoming ADSL2+ Upto 24M service. I know for a fact my local exchange won't see this anytime soon* And if they did, if they feel the need to restrict my upto 8M bandwidth every night, then ADSL2+ would be no better.

*It's Cambridge Science park exchange, there's far to much money being milked from dedicated lines in the exchange to offer a consumer service that some company's might jump at the chance of switching to. And no it's not LLU'd.
 
And while on the subject of moaning at BT...

Tonight they've decided that my normal reading->ealing->www should be sheffield->ealing->www... when I'm in Somerset... adding an extra 25ms to my ping and making web browsing quite sluggish :( sheesh
 
Pea0n said:
People have it in for big companies but I see far more threads about people complaining about other ISPs.
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uh-huh. i was on BT for 7 years before i got fed-up and left them, because i was tired of their crap.

at one point, shortly before i left them, they throttled me down to less than 1Kb/s for a period of THREE DAYS. i informed them that this was a violation of my contract and if i didn't receive my MAC code then I'd see them in court.

before i cancelled with them, my downlink bandwidth fluctuated between 5Mb and .25Mb on a daily basis.

you may say "well, the network can't handle the traffic volume", but you must remember that BT has a legal monopoly on the physical telecoms network in the UK, and they have a legal duty to ensure that the network is maintained to a modern and acceptable standard. which they've FAILED.

BT are currently trying to roll out "21cn" which stands for (in their words) "Twenty-First Century Network" which basically means upgrading everyone to ADSL2+... which is already outdated by far, just compare that to mainland Europe or Asia, where a consumer can EASILY get 100Mb fibre direct to the home, and the countries ALSO have the network capability to handle it.

BT, on the other hand, are content to sit on their fat asses while slurping down on the royalties that their legal monopoly brings them, charging exorbitant prices to rent their shoddy network to other companies and their paltry bandwidth to consumers.
 
Going off topic here but I thought BT decided against fibre optics in preference to buying a 3G licence early 2000, for billions when they first went on sale.

It would be interesting to know which out of fibre and 3G would have created more income for BT.
 
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