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 Whats the best gaming broadband provider (uncapped)???
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| Tinger |
Posted on 13-03-2008 19:52
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Title says it all please help  |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 13-03-2008 20:08
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would say virgin 20meg service.. but we are throttled between 16:30 & 23:00 .. is kinda of ok as i live in an area with lots of students in who love the p2p a bit much so last year was getting absolutley shite pings at peak times this year there nice w00t.. & I schedule my p2p abuse to the early hours of the morning.  |
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| Say |
Posted on 13-03-2008 20:12
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http://www.bethere.co.uk have a look at the fair usage policy. Heard nothing but good things about these people. Edited by Say on 13-03-2008 20:13 |
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| Cold |
Posted on 13-03-2008 20:24
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be, as say said. IMO virgin are too unreliable |
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| Tinger |
Posted on 13-03-2008 20:25
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Posts: 315 Joined: 13.08.07 |
cant get be where i live  they install there own equipment in the telephone exchangesI think the max speed I can get is just over two meg  ol: :no: Dont forget I live in wales :uhoh: |
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| Say |
Posted on 13-03-2008 20:37
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Posts: 505 Joined: 08.01.08 |
bah I don't have the checker url here. Could of checked the line for you. In the mean time have a look on http://www.samknows.com/broadband/che...ecker2.php I live 5 minutes from the welsh border meh. Edited by Say on 13-03-2008 20:39 |
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| Tinger |
Posted on 13-03-2008 20:41
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Posts: 315 Joined: 13.08.07 |
according to that web site I can have these goodies BT Wholesale ADSL BT Wholesale ADSL Max BT Wholesale SDSL TalkTalk (CPW) LLU |
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| CenTinela |
Posted on 13-03-2008 20:56
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Im sure yours is better than ours...:upset: Mine: 80ms ping on spanish servers, 100ms on the pool :no: |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 13-03-2008 21:29
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Posts: 1672 Joined: 09.07.06 |
my gf has TalkTalk and her latency & service is good.. but she lives in the middle of the smoke, a lot depends on your line quailty out in the sticks.. my parent are using BT out in west wales & there service is ok tbh didn't look at latency on there conenction as haven't converted them to tf2 yet ol: Quote cold wrote: be, as say said. IMO virgin are too unreliable hmm funny you say that been with Virgin 8 years now from what used to be Telewest\Blueyonder & at the same time worked for BT ... as BT wholesale suck isp's have allsorts of issues dealing with BT's infrastructure with horrendous lead times to get upgrade & repair work carried out, so unless the isp is known to have high contention ratios on routers & servers etc, they are pretty much at the mercy of BT's infrastructure despite being able to have there own kit exchanges..BT still run em... Virgin on the other hand bought NTL & Telewest infrastructure which they run on there own fibre so when things go tu most stuff gets fixed quick So if your in area covered by cable as well as adsl, would go for the cable hands down This of course dosen't help poor tinger.. |
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| Tinger |
Posted on 13-03-2008 21:52
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Posts: 315 Joined: 13.08.07 |
My new flat is about 40 meters from the Main exchange  Might get a shiny new line put in |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 13-03-2008 22:05
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Posts: 1672 Joined: 09.07.06 |
Quote Tinger wrote: My new flat is about 40 meters from the Main exchange Might get a shiny new line put in very nice.. shame can't try both BT & Talk Talk, before you buy lol.. What speed they offering on SDSL & how much, as 40 meters from the exchange with one of those puppies should be very nice |
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| Tinger |
Posted on 13-03-2008 22:17
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Posts: 315 Joined: 13.08.07 |
sdsl is way out of my price range |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 13-03-2008 22:28
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Posts: 1672 Joined: 09.07.06 |
ok look if there is any difference in contention ratios between the offerings |
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| Tinger |
Posted on 13-03-2008 22:30
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Posts: 315 Joined: 13.08.07 |
Quote sick-lizard wrote: very nice.. shame can't try both BT & Talk Talk, before you buy lol.. What speed they offering on SDSL & how much, as 40 meters from the exchange with one of those puppies should be very nice O realy http://media.phonehouse.com/mediaserv...T=30DAYPOP |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 13-03-2008 22:35
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Posts: 1672 Joined: 09.07.06 |
sweet 30 day trial & no mention of capping in T's & C's.. |
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| militant camel |
Posted on 13-03-2008 22:51
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I have Virgin (formally Telewest)'s cable and it's pretty good for the most part. It does seem to vary depending on which area you're in though. |
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| Clever Idiot |
Posted on 13-03-2008 22:58
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Brand new customers deal  even though Ive been with them 6/7 years now. 20mb + phone + tv deal for the same price as 4mb + phone deal. Ty dude,the misses (different surname will do the same next year As i Cancel on the 12th month...thanks and goodbye. |
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| FuZz |
Posted on 14-03-2008 09:03
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Have to agre with sick, I'm also on Virgin's 20MB service (having been with telewest/blueyonder/whateverthefucktheywerecalled in the past), and I have not once had a problemn that wasn't fixed very quickly and professionally. And to tell thwe truth, I've had like...2/3 minor problems in 6 years. The capping is a bit of a bitch in principle, but to be honest, I hardly ever notice it. Take yesterday for example. I left my home PC on durring the day running some torrents. Came home to find that all 3 torrents had finished (both seasons of the venture brothers, season 1 of skins - that thing off E4, and season 3 of battlestar galactica) much to my delight, as they had only been started the night before. That totals over 20GB of data up until 4pm alone. Of course, I then got home and did the obligatory forum reading sesh, which yesterday included a decent amount of youtubing due to links (which reminds me I need to link them on here, they were ace ), which I subsequently forwarded in an email to my flatmate, and she watched them all too. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, my flatmate has torrents running 100% of the time, and no I'm not exaggerating, although she has got her down/up slightly capped so I can still play games without lagging.Then after that, I proceeded to download the new episodes of the 2/3 Animes that I watch (new episodes always released on a thursday) from a website I have a subscirption with (speeds were about 1700k/s, which admittedly isn't full speed, but shit that's still fast). Once done with that I settled into a decent bit of gaming, with my usual lovely lovely ping, and called it a night. BADNSWIDTH THROTTLING? Surely if I am able to download quite as much as I do and still get a quality of service despite throttling that kills off ANY other form of competition from other ISPs, then the whole throttling thing isn't such a big deal? Man there are so many spelling mistakes in that post I just can't be arsed to go back and fix them all. I think I should just type a bit slower
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| Tinger |
Posted on 14-03-2008 09:09
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Posts: 315 Joined: 13.08.07 |
Fuzz I think would actually kill someone to get internet like that |
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| FuZz |
Posted on 14-03-2008 09:26
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Posts: 150 Joined: 16.11.07 |
I know mate, I can't do anything but sing Virgin's praises to be honest. Had a brief spell on BT provided ADSL a couple of years back due to the flat I was in for 6months couldn't get cable. I started to have bandwidth withdrawal symptoms....
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