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| iPints Member Since: 15 Jun 2012 Location: SC Posts: 294   
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Dont go Sky.......my internet is all over the place and they refuse to see the issue.
they acknowledge that my speed varies but when they check they say it is stable....I give up....i am thinking of going to BT Infinity!!!  The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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15th Jul 2013 11:36pm |
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| d j hutton Member Since: 30 Jul 2009 Location: Dorset Posts: 1044  
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Orange seem to be doing some good deals on fibre optic broadband and apparently we can get it, so I may pursue that to see what the deal ends up as.
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16th Jul 2013 12:29am |
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| TheWarden Member Since: 25 Feb 2013 Location: Southampton Posts: 179  
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Check here http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/
to find out when Fibre Broadband is coming to your area. 2013 Aintree Green 110 Station Wagon SX |
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16th Jul 2013 6:20am |
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| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 8331  
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BT gets my vote. they own the lines after all. the best of the bunch when it comes to it i feel. Cheers
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16th Jul 2013 6:58am |
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| couplands Member Since: 31 Aug 2011 Location: Peak District & Cornwall Posts: 1830 
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Another vote for BT. I'm in the Peak District, but get 75mb down and 16mb up most of the time. On a bad day it drops to 70mb...
It's very consistent speed throughout the day too, unlike when I had Sky and sometimes it dropped in the evenings to 5% of the daytime speed, which was at best 4mb download. Another benefit of BT is access to most people's WiFi (who are on BT too) when you are out and about. Very useful. 
Cheers Simon Last edited by couplands on 16th Jul 2013 7:07am. Edited 3 times in total |
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16th Jul 2013 7:04am |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328
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BT Business Fibre
Limited drops and fab service |
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16th Jul 2013 7:05am |
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| theorangebandit Member Since: 03 Jun 2013 Location: Stowmarket Posts: 862 |
orange will be handing there internet over to another company soon and it'll turn out like when Vodafone handed to plusnet, your service wont change for 6 months then price will go up. I changed from orange to talk talk.
I haven't got a single bad word about talk talk , great value for money they also offer high speed connection. companies to avoid BT - I still have a small pile of paper to prove that after 4 months of them trying to get 180 quid from me fro some made up reason in the end they owed me money ! only 2.35 but I won the argument, I wrote complaints and I won in the end.) sky - skys customer services is unbeatable any where. and there TV service is impeccable. I have been with sky and left twice now and they made it very difficult to quit however thee internet just isn't t all good. IME I highly recommend virgin if you can get it , if not start a petition to have it installed in your area, I am considering this myself I went talk talk because its cheap ! and I don't care if the net crashes every now and again (it hasn't yet) at there low prices |
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16th Jul 2013 7:08am |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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it varies area to area, we had virgin fibre, when it was running it was fast but not reliable, so swapped back to Sky and it's fine .. not fast but reliable.
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16th Jul 2013 7:29am |
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| theorangebandit Member Since: 03 Jun 2013 Location: Stowmarket Posts: 862 |
Fair enough perhaps he should ask his nneighbours then |
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16th Jul 2013 7:53am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11327
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We swapped from Virgin to BT when we moved house earlier in the year and we're very disappointed. Virgin was fast and stable and BT just isn't. Really hoping that Infinity will be available soon
 Darren
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16th Jul 2013 8:32am |
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| borderterrier Member Since: 09 Dec 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 1677
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Being in the army has some perks, but fast internet isnt one of them! We tend to be housed in areas where internet providers terminate their lines, so for me anything over 1.5Mb download speed is a bonus. Here in Germany I live in the camp and my internet is 2Mb which for what I use the web for is fine to be honest.
My dad had endless dramas with Talk Talk when he was with them, slow, intermittent service and their help centre is to customer service what Mr Kipling is to car manufacturing. By far the worst I have ever had the pleasure to engage with. |
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16th Jul 2013 8:44am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20912
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AOL wired connection for me. Rarely does it disconnect perhaps once in 6 months. Around 8MB download for me but I live in a rural village some way from the most local exchange. 800kb upload but that is rare to uploadd anyway and in all honesty it's not bad at all. I'm only on wired because I signed up with the years ago. If you did now you'd get a wireless router sent to you for free.
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16th Jul 2013 10:34am |
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| davew Member Since: 02 Jan 2012 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 888 
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You need to separate the line speed and the internet performance in your mind.
On an ADSL connection at least, the line speed will be the same regardless of the provider as the bit between you and the exchange is the limiting factor and the people you pay the money to can do nothing about that bit. The equipment you use in your house to terminate the line also has an effect. If you are of the view that you use the box that the provider "gives away" then it'll always be a mediocre connection speed. Personally I leave the "provider" box in it's packaging and use a TP-Link modem as that will normally give around a 10%-20% faster up/down link speed than the piece of junk that the ISP provides. The WiFi on that is also very fast compared to the "freebie" boxes, including the BT one, whatever their marketing hype might try and tell you ! The second consideration is then the reliability and speed of the ISP's infrastructure from the exchange to the rest of the world. Some of them use throttling during peak times and some of them apply throttling to specific use patterns. If you use alternative mail services to the one the ISP provides you may also find that some ISPs block their use. (Orange, for example, block the use of port 25, used for sending mail, to anything other than their own mail servers). I use Zen internet as my ISP over a BT supplied ADSL line, been with them for many, many years now and it's very rare I have any problems. I use VPN for work (home based IT professional) and, as an example of the reliability, the VPN currently shows a continuous connection for 114 hours - which is the time since I installed some updates and rebooted the Mac that runs the VPN. I think the record so far was just over 700 hours continuous VPN connection (that was limited by the Cisco VPN server at work resetting it). I do a bit of online gaming and latency is consistently good and when others in my group are constantly being disconnected I never have such problems. the only bad bits about Zen are the cost (they aren't the cheapest) and the bandwidth limit although I've only run into that once in the last 10 years. When I phoned them up about the limit they increased the allowance by 3x and gave me a discount on my monthly fee as a loyal customer when I phoned them up about it. So I ended up paying less for more bandwidth... which was nice 
One day BT will get there fingers out and upgrade the cabinet to fibre, not holding my breath though, i think we're currently looking at at least another 2-3 years of copper around here. http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/ Last edited by davew on 16th Jul 2013 10:44am. Edited 1 time in total |
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16th Jul 2013 10:41am |
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| x-isle Member Since: 26 May 2011 Location: Midlands Posts: 1327  
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Where ever you go, who ever you choose (and it hates me to say this), unfortunately, you can't really beat BT.
BT customer service and management structure suck! However, from a technical side, you can't beat them. I'm currently in the process of moving back to BT from PlusNet, nothing wrong with PlusNet, but after their annoying TV adverts, they ain't getting any more of my money. Apart from that, BT don't throttle and also have the BT-FON WiFi access which seems to work quite well already and that's growing all the time. A lot of providers say they don't throttle, but it's nonsense. Orange, I believe, are up in court for throttling. As much as I hate BT, it seems that realistically, once you get through the rubbish Customer Service, it isn't so bad. .......I've been a Telecoms Engineer for almost 20 years, so this is all from experience. Oh and one more thing, as the UK is still well behind, don't forget that if your local exchange isn't kitted out for other providers (LLU), you are actually just getting BT resold. So if you are in a bad area (I am, still on good old ADSL MAX, yep 8mb down, 448K up!!!!), chances are it's BT or nothing, whoever you chose to go with. Craig Rogers 2007 Puma 110 XS 2011 Evoque Coupe Dynamic Lux www.craigrogers.photography |
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16th Jul 2013 10:42am |
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