What internet do you use for gaming ?

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Virgin 20Mb.

Originally had Blueyonder 512Kb when it came out. This was fantastic for a few years. I stuck with them after Virgin took over as I wanted cable internet.

Pros : Good throughput, ping and responsiveness 99% of the time.

Cons : Price and over the past year or so they seem to be fiddling about with things in the early hours (this might be due to all the upgrades going on mind).
 
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For gaming Virgin Media is the way to go. They're the best in my opinion and lots of people seem to be complementing them.

I'm currently stuck on a 10Mb download and barely 1Mb upload. Really frustrating but looking forward to May to lower my TV package so that I can afford a broadband upgrade :)
 
Living in a village, I'm stuck with 8 meg. Not that fast for downloading stuff, but is pretty stable and the pings are solid.
 
Had VM for years, turns out they'd been overcharging us for the best part of a year, couldn't explain why and were a total ball ache to get a refund from. Was a pain not being able to download games through origin/steam until after 9pm because of the cap as well.

BT Infinity now and it's been great so far :).
 
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Virgin media is alright but now they've started STM on 100Mb and that makes me a sad panda

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ADSL24 here, been brilliant for gaming with Pings of <30 in most games. We don't have ADSL2 on our exchange and no cable in my area so it's just standard old broadband. Use them for about 5 years now.
 
I am in a rural area so no LLU around here, the max I can get is 8MB.

I have Zen's office package which is very good with stable pings and has never let me down. It cost's though but they have never given me a headache unlike *cough* Plusnet.
Have been with them for about six years and can't see myself going anywhere anytime soon.
 
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I am in a rural area so no LLU around here, the max I can get is 8MB.

I have Zen's office package which is very good with stable pings and has never let me down. It cost's though but they have never given me a headache unlike *cough* Plusnet.
Have been with them for about six years and can't see myself going anywhere anytime soon.
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We use them at work, brilliant ISP and I've only needed to call them once in about 5 years (and the service I got was amazing!!) Pings are slightly higher than ADSL24 which is the only reason I don't use them for my home broadband as well.
 
I used to use Xilo Pro 16 Home. They are fantastic but I am quite a distance from the exchange so when Sky fibre was activated I couldn't refuse :p
 
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Standard BT adsl - it literally is the best I can get around here. At my old place I was with BEthere but max my line supported was 2mb, downloads were about 250 kb/s download, 20 kb/s upload max.

Here is not much better, 5mb - 550 kb/s download, 40kb/s upload.

We are supposedly getting BT Infinity in 2013 but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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Standard BT adsl - it literally is the best I can get around here. At my old place I was with BEthere but max my line supported was 2mb, downloads were about 250 kb/s download, 20 kb/s upload max.

Here is not much better, 5mb - 550 kb/s download, 40kb/s upload.

We are supposedly getting BT Infinity in 2013 but I'm not holding my breath.
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VM is much better than sky, fast, but unreliable, when I had sky they said 20mb I got 2mb on speedtest.net
VM does 30mb for cheaper and I get arond 25mb on speedtest
VM for me,
if you can go to extremes, get tiscally or AOL
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This is the difference between MB (Megabyte) and Mb (Megabit). Obviously sounds rubbish if ISPs offer 'the latest 2MB connection!!', so they say the latest '20Mb connection!!' which is roughy the same speed. yes its a con but one that seems well established.

I Have VM here, 10Mb connection (around 1.2MB download) which is good for gaming and pretty much suits my needs for all else. Will get 'upgraded' to 20Mb at some point but really I find it adequate as I dont download a terrible amount and only get slowed down a couple of times a month.
 
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This is the difference between MB (Megabyte) and Mb (Megabit). Obviously sounds rubbish if ISPs offer 'the latest 2MB connection!!', so they say the latest '20Mb connection!!' which is roughy the same speed. yes its a con but one that seems well established.

I Have VM here, 10Mb connection (around 1.2MB download) which is good for gaming and pretty much suits my needs for all else. Will get 'upgraded' to 20Mb at some point but really I find it adequate as I dont download a terrible amount and only get slowed down a couple of times a month.
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I'm fully aware of this, just making a point that I can't get decent broadband round here ;)

Annoyingly when I moved from my old property the year after they upgraded the lines and everyone gets BT Infinity now.


The other other service I can get around here is O2 access broadband which is the worst broadband I've ever experienced anywhere. Full of drop outs, stupidly slow speeds at peak times (I could barely check emails) let alone game. In the end I got out of the contract by emailing Ofcom who got O2 to cancel it.

 
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Well my dad pays for sky plus 20 Mb unlimited broadband, and all I ever get on Sky is around 2 Meg.

But now on T mobile I'm getting up to around this much:

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Its 7.2 Mbps download, and 512 kb upload, for some reason my upload is capped, it should be 2 meg but I've had enough of wasting time with their customer service :(

Full Monty on T Mobile and One Plan on 3 seem to be a lot better for online gaming to me, my T mobile connection rarely disconnects and is fast enough to play MMOs, and now with the full monty I have no limits, other than my 512 kb upload cap.
 
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