Spec me an ISP for 5 Studens 1 House

Meloco · 21 Sep 2008 at 14:48

As title says, price isn't an issue and it seems like the exchange can only take around 5mbps.

many thanks,

daveyp · 21 Sep 2008 at 16:04

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php

Metalface Mark · 21 Sep 2008 at 16:08

I just changed from virgin to titanadsl, service so far has been fantastic, we usually have 3 or 4 connections at once, and its been very solid. £19.99 a month for 30gb on peak, 300gb off peak, off peak being 10pm to 8am and all weekend.

Dave · 21 Sep 2008 at 16:44

We're currently with Be There - 24 meg, £18/month for unlimited access, and we get the full 24mb. Be do a 8mb service for £14/month (apparantly £8/month for this year) as well. No problems or downtime at all so far

Meloco · 21 Sep 2008 at 20:11

Dave said:
We're currently with Be There - 24 meg, £18/month for unlimited access, and we get the full 24mb. Be do a 8mb service for £14/month (apparantly £8/month for this year) as well. No problems or downtime at all so far

Yer we looked at BE, seems like a good deal atm!

dave-lew99 · 21 Sep 2008 at 22:45

Couple of Be*/O2 lines, or one virgin 20meg and one O2, as unfortunatly Virgin won't install more than one line in a property.

squawkBOX · 21 Sep 2008 at 23:52

Remember to check on samknows.com to see if your local exchange in your student house is o2 / BE LLU enabled.

Burnsy2023 · 21 Sep 2008 at 23:59

dave-lew99 said:
Couple of Be*/O2 lines, or one virgin 20meg and one O2, as unfortunatly Virgin won't install more than one line in a property.

For normal stuff, you don't need more than one line. We have 7 people on a 5meg line and as long as large downloads are scheduled for off peak times, there's no problem at all.

dave-lew99 · 22 Sep 2008 at 18:43

I don't agree, we have 2 meg between 4 at the moment and it's awful - we all have voip phones, we all do remote admin/access stuff including RDP and VNC and we all game online - it just falls over after one person starts using the phone.

Burnsy2023 · 22 Sep 2008 at 18:45

dave-lew99 said:
I don't agree, we have 2 meg between 4 at the moment and it's awful - we all have voip phones, we all do remote admin/access stuff including RDP and VNC and we all game online - it just falls over after one person starts using the phone.

We do all the same with 7 people except for the VOIP without issue.

Sp00n · 22 Sep 2008 at 19:22

I think upload is critical in just such a situation, I have 4 people on a 4down/1up line and its absoutely fine.

dave-lew99 · 22 Sep 2008 at 20:33

Yeah, don't go with virgin at anything other than 20meg.