Looking into a new ISP for gaming.

BenJ

BenJ

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Ok, at the moment we're on AOL 2meg unlimted, which does the job fine apart from when me and my bro are both on vent and Counterstrike, then we lag when we speak.

So im looking at a new ISP with 8meg download and pref at least 400+upload.

Its for Counterstrike source and a low ping is desirable at all times of the day.

We cannot get cable in our area.

I've come up with a short list from http://www.dslzoneuk.net/, so give me your opinions on them below:

1) UK Online, 8Meg down, 786K upload, Unlimited downloads, 33:1 Contention ratio, £24.99, http://www.ukonline.net/broadband/upto8Mb.php?sso_auth=0

2) Demon, 8Meg down, 448K upload, Unlimited downloads, £19.99, http://www.demon.net/demon/products/internetaccess/broadband/home

3) ndo, 8Meg down, 448K upload, 60gig Cap, 50:1 Contention ratio, £24.95, http://www.ndo.com/home_broadband.html

4) Orange, 8Meg down, Not sure upload, Unlimited downloads, £19.99, http://www.orange.co.uk/time/broadbandunlimited/

 
UKFSN is far too expensive, most im looking at is £25 a month, also leetzor, as i said when me and my bro are on vent, so its double the usage i guess, we have 288upload atm and we lag so how can 256k be "fine"...

IDNet has a 30Gb monthly usage cap (Seems quite low). Since we're on unlimited ive no idea how much bandwith we use, but im guessing quite a bit, as AOL class us as a heavy user.
 
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Have i checked them out....i asked people for help...if someone recommends an isp then of course im going to "check them out" and as i said before "Home MAX 60 60 GB 330 GB £29.99 " that is out of my price range.

However lookingat the lower package "Home MAX 30 30 GB 300 GB £19.99"

im not sure quite how much bandwidth we would use, but as a family of 5 with 4 pcs in the house im guessing quite a lot..

"**Peak hours are defined as Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00
***Off-peak is defined as Monday to Thursday 22:00 to 08:00 and Friday 22:00 through to Monday 08:00."

But since they have quite generous off peak and peak hours compared to the other companies it looks like quite a lot of the use will be from the 300gb limit and not the 30gb. So looks like i may try these guys out, thanks.
 
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i was wondering if that was the case, the 10pm isnt really a problem but weekend high pings would put me off buying. I want to find someone who is with UK Online because they look like a good buy, with unlimited access and quick upload speeds.
 
cheers, what is "BTw" ? ive really no idea how much we use. and im guessing a 30gig cap would be ample. All i want is a stable low ping at all times and a decent upload speed so me and my bro can use vent at the same time.

And most importantly to avoid companies such as Tsicali and Pipex, because the CSS forums are littered with people having ping problems with these companies.
 
i know btw is by the way , but he put "BTw" in this context "the biggest factor is the BTw element that's between you and the ISP which" so i guessed it must mean somthing else?
 
that does sound a perfect package, only problem is, i know my parents wont pay more than £25, the argument will be "we're only paying £20 atm, so why do we need to pay £25+vat blahblahblah" as you can imagine >_<
 
hyper could you dos prompt ping "ammobox.net" and "invisiongaming.co.uk" for me? cheers.
 
im not familiar with QoS, however i do know that the ventrilo and cs:s times 2 is saturating our upload, because when we join a vent with a lower quality codec it reduces the lag. So i am confident a higher upload speed will cure the problem.
 
ok pretty sure im going to go for UKFSN, but i was wondering how the whole process of switching takes place. E.g When i ring up AOL and ask for a MAC code, then ring up UKFSN and order the ADSL with them. Do AOL immediately disconnect their feed and then it takes a few days for UKFSN to stat theirs? so basically will there be down time and around how much if there is any?

Also we still have 1month of the AOL 12month contract left, will we have to pay the remaining month to switch?

Hyper at the moment i get

Pinging ammobox.net [82.136.25.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.136.25.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.136.25.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.136.25.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.136.25.1: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=54

Pinging invisiongaming.co.uk [87.117.224.200] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 87.117.224.200: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=54
Reply from 87.117.224.200: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=54
Reply from 87.117.224.200: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=54
Reply from 87.117.224.200: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=54

Would i be able to get interleaving removed if i got UKFSN, and if so what implications would there be?

Edit: I cannot get BE* in my area cow.
 
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