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Dr. kitteny berk wrote: More Info

I had to lmao at "unless you're downloading an unusually large amount of information at peak times, we won't restrict your service and you can download to your heart's content."

Erm?

How can you "you can download to your heart's content" and then not "download ... an unusually large amount of information at peak times"

thewombleofdeath wrote:im thinking of swapping to sky tv and possibly getting their internet service

Sky is just ADSL, like BT, Bulldog and everyone else, and is only as good as your phone line. At least Virgin have the power to sort out connection problems, even if they lack the will/resources/inclination to do so.

I've found Virgin to be pretty good for the month or so I've been using them, for Internet that is. Phone and TV I'm not too bothered about, basic packages and I only use them occasionally.

Off peak I get the full 4mb and at peak times I tend to get throttled to 2mb. Although I've been downloading stuff all day and it's just gone back up to 4mb despite it being peak time right now.

I just can't believe that they don't have the infrastructure and bandwidth to handle people maxing out their connections during peak hours...

deject wrote:I just can't believe that they don't have the infrastructure and bandwidth to handle people maxing out their connections during peak hours...

It's BTs fault. They're dinosaurs.

As far as i know, this is how it goes

Bethere & other LLU ADSL2 > Virgin > Standard ADSL > "Free broadband" (sky/talktalk et all)

I'm on virgin. I think i have the 20mb, but its anybody's guess really.
Either way, i download a pretty hefty amount. I don't have newsgroups on 24/7 but its enough to keep me with plenty of stuff to watch.
Anyway, I've not actually noticed any difference or throttling.

My next plan is to re-activate the second phone line, and get bethere down that and merge bethere & virgin together. However i might also move house and not bother.

I must say bethere are the dog's bollocks

/~500gb since the 17th.

Unfortunately, their DNS servers like to fall over, which is fairly inconvenient.

maybe try bethere then instead.

i just thought sky would have been more convenient but if its crap then ill probs not bother


also...

deject wrote:I just can't believe that they don't have the infrastructure and bandwidth to handle people maxing out their connections during peak hours...

this

I've just bought myself virgin telly and bb, got a bit of mix up with my stuff not being delivered last weds when it should have been, so I rang them and it turned out they had reconnected the dude who had the house before me by mistake. They rang me back to save me money, easy to do. but it still looks good, they also knocked money off my bill, that'll do nicely. As for throttling me, I've spent the last few months on 256k because I was using half of KV's connection, so my 4Mb will seem lightning fast.

deject wrote:I just can't believe that they don't have the infrastructure and bandwidth to handle people maxing out their connections during peak hours...

You don't have BT in America. Its their infrastructure that can't handle the bandwidth at peak hours.

I'm with plus net and to be fair, I haven't noticed a huge difference since they started their whole "fair usage kill zeee hackers!!" thing. Things sweep faster off peak ofcourse but the speeds during peak times are fine for games and slightly slower sweeping. All in all when it happened to me it didn't annihilate my speeds as I thought it would.

eRabbit wrote:I'm with plus net and to be fair, I haven't noticed a huge difference since they started their whole "fair usage kill zeee hackers!!" thing. Things sweep faster off peak ofcourse but the speeds during peak times are fine for games and slightly slower sweeping. All in all when it happened to me it didn't annihilate my speeds as I thought it would.

I had to leave plusnet after they did the packet filtering - Often during games I'd get 30-90 second lag spikes and kicked from games for it.

Was absolutely unusable.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I had to leave plusnet after they did the packet filtering - Often during games I'd get 30-90 second lag spikes and kicked from games for it.

Was absolutely unusable.

One of the reasons I got rid of them. Generally a very good service but this was just too annoying.