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matt_fsr

matt_fsr

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2 days ago I phoned Tesco technical support, to see if they could explain why my pings have gone utterly dire over the past couple of weeks.

Following an "upgrade" to our local exchange, my line sync rate has gone up from 2Mb/s to 3Mb/s - not a lot of use, given the 1Mb/s speed cap from my ISP (Tesco)

This has also wrecked my ping, from an average of around 60-65, to a typical 120-200 now, which is pretty much as bad as the bad old days of dial-up. (Using the same servers as before, everyone else getting around 60-80 pings)

So having spoken to tech support and found that they won't log this as a fault ticket I've requested a MAC code and im jumping ship.

Anyone got any good recommendations? Cable isnt an option, neither is BT, or Tiscali and crew.

I've been looking at ADSL24 and their home 30Gb package, for £18.90 a month - anyone else using this?
http://adsl24.co.uk/broadband/home/

I'm not too fussed on getting the cheapest Broadband or anything, I just want a decent connection and a good size transfer limit, or ideally none at all. £20 per month approx budget, can be flexible.
 
Go with either Sky or UK Online (they run on the sky network) as they are both excellent providers.

UK Online do unlimited 8mb (I used to be with them and they never capped anyone) for £20 a month and I got 14ms pings to UK servers aswell :)
 
Seconded, Go with Sky, they do a good broadband, phone, TV package too if you're interested in that.
 
I have to agree with the rest Sky is the best option also your current connect may of had interleaved enabled thats why you got more speed but a lot slower pings.
 
Problem with sky is they only give bb to people taking their tv. From a marketing viewpoint i can understand this, in fact the isps you listed are the only llu ones on my exchange, there are 210 houses in my street and 9 sky dishes, so how does restricting bb in areas where it's easily he fastest, make them more pennies? :P

If you're exchange is getting be in the next couple months then adsl24s 1 month contract is almost certainly you're best bet.
 
Azuse05 said:
Problem with sky is they only give bb to people taking their tv. From a marketing viewpoint i can understand this, in fact the isps you listed are the only llu ones on my exchange, there are 210 houses in my street and 9 sky dishes, so how does restricting bb in areas where it's easily he fastest, make them more pennies? :P
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Because the money for them is in their TV services, which generate way more revenue and are likely to be much more profitable than broadband alone. If you do just want the broadband, though not well publicised you can go via UKonline, which is the consumer arm of Easynet, the company Sky bought to provide their broadband services.
 
02 arent in the local exchange sadly, but I could still get their standard ADSL package for £17ish as I am an 02 customer.

I'm thinking of trying the ADSL24 and seeing how the bandwidth usage goes. I dont have Sky, but it might be worth a look into as I quite like some of the channels, though I dont watch a lot of telly.
 
matt_fsr said:
02 arent in the local exchange sadly, but I could still get their standard ADSL package for £17ish as I am an 02 customer.

I'm thinking of trying the ADSL24 and seeing how the bandwidth usage goes. I dont have Sky, but it might be worth a look into as I quite like some of the channels, though I dont watch a lot of telly.
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They're doing an offer atm, free Sky+ box, £30 install then £36.50 a month and that includes line rental (remember you still pay that on top of your DSL at the moment).
 
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