Switching from Aol, Possibly to BT, Need advice on the wireless

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Hey, ok we have had enough with the terribel service of AOL. I suggested BT because id like to have wireless. But i have my doubts. I cant find the specification of the BT home hub anywhere and therefore have no idea how fast it is, eg 54 mb/s .

Do any of you guys know? Is it really bad etc?


And is the achual internet connection of BT good and reliable?


Also, if i had to replace it. What would be good networking hardware for an xbox 360 and two pcs? (need pc network cards as well, dont worry about the xbox)

thanks.
 
it comes with wireless i see?

Is it any good? and what is the connection like?


I resently found out all these internet providers are a con.

It said in small print:

8megabits . So when they say 8meg they mean bits not bytes.

There is 8megabits to a byte. So in otherwords. 8Mb (megabits) = 1MB (megabyte broad band).

That is such a con!
 
I know that they wont be the best. But you see i cant afford to buy a new wireless right now. Which is why i need an acceptable one to hook just 1 pc up for now. Later ill upgrade.

The reason i say its a con is because they advertise saying 8meg broadband. Besides, most people wont know the difference between Mb and MB, when there is a significant difference of 8million bits. Untill reading that i never relised you get bits and not bytes. neither did my friends. They dont achuly make it obious. You gota read the small print.
 
Snapshot said:
To be very blunt, your ignorance of industry standards does not make them a con. Network speeds have always been expressed in bits per second (probably because a transmitted character isn't always 8 bits) so for the broadband industry to do anything else would be ridiculous.
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ignorance which would most probably include the majority of the world who have broadband.

To me saying 8meg does not state Bits or Bytes and therefore is wrong. Why should you have to presume somthing without them giving any clue as to which they are other then that its to do with networking. Which how many people know about networks?

I dont have a network, why should i know anything about them? If i had a network, i wouldn't be asking the questions i did!
 
Zildjian said:
Don't bother with BT.

I just left them because recently they have really gone downhill.
Since they changed their option 3 to "Unlimited", they have started using traffic managment. I am syncing at 8128kbps with an IP profile of 7150 - with BT I was lucky to get 200-300kbps on weekends, and weekdays after 4pm I was lucky to get over 500kbps. I couldn't even watch streaming videos on Youtube - their technical support kept blaming viruses, spyware, poor house wiring, etc - their support is laughable.
I moved ISP's 10 days ago and since moving now have rock solid speeds of 6900kbps +.
You can read reviews of BT here: http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php#

I wouldn't go near them ever again. IIRC, they have 18 month contracts too!

You would be much better off going with an ISP who have a fixed download cap, there are not many ISP's on ADSL that can provide true unlimited, unless you pay £70+. Those who claim to have unlimited usually use some kind of traffic managment.
I was only downloading 20-30GB on BT, but was being capped to less than 512K speeds.
Also go for an ISP with less than a 3 month contract, it will probably save you a hell of a lot of pain if you ever have problems.
Entanet resellers like ADSL24 or UKFSN get my vote - or if you don't need huge download caps, then Zen, IDNet and Newnet are all pretty good, but more expensive that Entanet resellers.
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What ISP are you currently using now?
 
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