Soldato
Who offers best FTTC
- Thread starter brightside229
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You don't have to change your phone number. You're probably thinking of line rental. Check availability at the Sky website or call them.
Soldato
Am I right in thinking sky's FTTC is 40 MB down and only 1MB up where as BT's is 38 down and 9.5MB up? Plus sky want £50 activation fee whereas BT want £25?
When did Sky become so expensive for what on paper is an inferior offering! Is BT's throttling really that bad.
When did Sky become so expensive for what on paper is an inferior offering! Is BT's throttling really that bad.
Sky offers 40/2 and 80/20.
As for BT's pricing...
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5217-talktalk-raises-concerns-over-bt-fibre-pricing.html
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...-push-bt-for-cheaper-superfast-broadband.html
Soldato
Not all B.T people are idiots ha! ..
I'm not referring to the engineers/techs, apologies for any offence caused.
I'm currently trying to get through the thickheads of the customer support crew that the broadband they sold me doesn't work! (long story, but I live in the sticks so have excessive line length). Engineer visit confirmed my line cannot carry a broadband service, maybe when FTTC is rolled out in my area i'll have connection but until then no chance. (as stated by engineer during visit).
Despite sending all of the equipment back to BT, and the engineer sending in a report stating that he was unable to enable broadband on my line, BT still keep trying to charge me for the broadband service and all of the equipment! (home hub/BT vision box).
I just can't seem to get through to them at all, at least a dozen phone calls over the last few weeks, each time they promise to revise my bill (£155) which should only include line rental/calls.
Received another letter from them today demanding £155 payment immediately, or my contract and telephone number will be cancelled and I won't be able to get them back in the future (outgoing calls have already been restricted).
Have just spoken to them again and was told revision to bill will be made and I will be contacted within 72 hours, I've been told this everytime I've spoken to them, it's reached the point where if it doesn't get sorted i'll have to seek legal advice............... I'm off to smash my head against the nearest brickwall............ again!
Soldato
^^ Now resolved, please resume thread.
Man of Honour
I think their CS dept must have been brought back to life this week as a friend who has been chasing BT for £150 for 3 months and at least 10 calls has finally got his refund too^^ Now resolved, please resume thread.
There are plenty of other FTTC providers beyond BT and Sky 
http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/isps_offering_fttc.html
http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/isps_offering_fttc.html
If using uTorrent:
Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > Protocol Encryption - Outgoing: Forced
No throttling.
Soldato
If that is true I might opt for bts pro package? £26 a month with a phone I thought I read earlier
Sky charge the following with a £50 activation fee +phone line:
40/10 - £20pm
80/20 - £30pm
BT charge the following with no activation fee +phone line:
80/20 - £26pm (first four months are currently £20pm)
It works out slightly cheaper using BT, but if you use torrents your better off with sky as they don't throttle (unlike BT who throttle torrents).
I personally was sick of giving mr murdoch £50 pm and only use newsgroups, so dropped sky and went for BT's phone & fibre offering....Looks like sky ain't bothered in retaining you as a customer unless you pay for their TV service - they didn't even bother to call me lol!
Sky also have a tendency to raise prices almost twice a darn year!!
40/10 - £20pm
80/20 - £30pm
BT charge the following with no activation fee +phone line:
80/20 - £26pm (first four months are currently £20pm)
It works out slightly cheaper using BT, but if you use torrents your better off with sky as they don't throttle (unlike BT who throttle torrents).
I personally was sick of giving mr murdoch £50 pm and only use newsgroups, so dropped sky and went for BT's phone & fibre offering....Looks like sky ain't bothered in retaining you as a customer unless you pay for their TV service - they didn't even bother to call me lol!
Sky also have a tendency to raise prices almost twice a darn year!!
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It prevents DPI. It doesn't stop them analysing the behaviour of the traffic. BT's upstream shaping is way worse than downstream, with upstream often being limited to 1Mb/s. The only way to avoid it is to tunnel the traffic.
Soldato
Even if I was sending a FTP file to my brother (for instance) I would be shaped????
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FTP is fine, it's only P2P traffic.
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Upload and download?
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BT also shape VPN traffic if you don't buy the homeworker package. As many government homeworkers found out....
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Well I'm due to move out of my current house at the end of this month just spoke to BT and they will link my account IF I sign up for Infinity 2 now so I won't be charged for the remainder of the month after ....
Currently pay £21 to Titan ADSL for 6mb (I live in a village) and £12 to BT for the phone package so £33 total to go to £26 for approx 64mb down 20mb up would be a dream plus I'm on a 200gb limit with Titan, are there any limits with BT?
Would love to go with Sky but with activation fees and that fact they say they aren't in the area I cba to wait and muck about with moving my landline over to them
Currently pay £21 to Titan ADSL for 6mb (I live in a village) and £12 to BT for the phone package so £33 total to go to £26 for approx 64mb down 20mb up would be a dream plus I'm on a 200gb limit with Titan, are there any limits with BT?
Would love to go with Sky but with activation fees and that fact they say they aren't in the area I cba to wait and muck about with moving my landline over to them