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Nhumrod
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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 4:14pm \| IP Logged

Ok peeps - question?

I am trying to decide who to go with when I move into my new house. I am currently with eclipse who were great when I 1st started with them but have gone rapidly downhill in recent weeks due to bandwidth contention. They refuse to admit there is an issue and I cant be arsed with them anymore. Can everyone please post below with who they use, what speed they have and what they think of their service (esp at peak times!). Cheers

Eclipse 8mb ADSL Max
Peak: Crap
Off-Peak: Very Good

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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 4:20pm \| IP Logged

be, or bt

ScotzMan
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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 4:32pm \| IP Logged

ISP: Nildram 8 meg
PEAK: brill
Off-PEAK: brill

use me as refer' i get a tenner :D

Edited by ScotzMan on 24 September 2006 at 4:32pm

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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 4:36pm \| IP Logged

ISP: Batelco 2mb
PEAK: Crap
Off-Peak: Bearable.

Don't use them.

killah
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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 5:17pm \| IP Logged

What about sky? any of yous got sky yet, i'm trying to get the 8mb connection.

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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 5:50pm \| IP Logged

it will be crap ::

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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 6:05pm \| IP Logged

telewest
on 2mb goin to 16mb in few weeks

have never had any trouble

always get about 15-25 ping on all uk servers..aint bad for a 2mb

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Posted: 24 September 2006 at 7:37pm \| IP Logged

Yeah telewest probably a good bet, as long as it's not in the north east. I had an ok connection with them for one year and then the year after in another house the connection was piss poor for the whole year.

Im on BT at the moment and aside from the fact i've got a 2gb cap its mint, low pings and full speed all the time. You can get it upto 60gb a month i think, so would depend how much you rinse it I suppose?

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 5:50am \| IP Logged

Dud.TraP wrote:

it will be crap ::

Why is that?? Need to to, cause i am going to change over this week

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 8:30am \| IP Logged

im seriously lookin at nilram now... scotty reckons theyre great!

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 8:32am \| IP Logged

killah wrote:

Dud.TraP wrote:

it will be crap ::

Why is that?? Need to to, cause i am going to change over this week

They will basically have 500 people to one card in the exchange, trying to fit as many as possible on one card causes load issues in the evenings etc...

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 9:46am \| IP Logged

all these free offers means theres more users on the same limited hardware on adsl max, and at 7 - 8pm they all pile on resulting in slow speed and crapy pings. hence im getting cable put in this week which is less likely to expand there user base as quickly as adsl. if you dont have cable line available try and go for an adsl 2 service provider.

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 11:43am \| IP Logged

or bt, as there contention ratios are 200:1 instead of 500.

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 12:04pm \| IP Logged

whatever happened to 50:1 and 20:1 ?!?!

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 12:12pm \| IP Logged

yeh it is, i was wrong :) there all sh*t DONT USE BROADBAND ITS sh*t

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 12:12pm \| IP Logged

20:1 you have to pay more for though i think

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 1:13pm \| IP Logged

well all the current SKY BB hardware is Easynet,a nd they are more or less running the BB side of things. I'm not sure what it is like, but if Easynet engeriners are anthing like there Dev's your scewed!

But at least the software that runs on Sky's end is perfect :D

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 1:35pm \| IP Logged

Easynet run UKOnline dont they, who were the first 8mb provider iirc. I'd feel relatively comfortable if it is true that they are running skys service. Still the fact is that sky will be massively oversubscribed, and because its a free service, as long as you can load one web page an hour they will say you have a satisfactory service. You get what you pay for at the end of the day.

I've not heard any sus about Nildram yet, nor Zen who are probably the most expensive ADSL ISP going but widely regarded as the best.

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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 2:23pm \| IP Logged

Well the 2Mb line is only free to those that have Sky TV.
And Sky bought Easynet for this.

I have no idea of the numbers yet but I know the processing is going a bit slow at the moment.

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killah
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Posted: 25 September 2006 at 3:49pm \| IP Logged

I've just called sky. I get offered 2MB connection, 40GB caped limit Ł17 a month and Ł40 activitaion fee. They are takin the piss!!!

I want to change to another provider asap, cause i've cancelled my current broadband.

I'm lookin for speeds up to 2mb (my area only supports 3MB max!!), no contract, no download limit or atleast 40gig capped.

Price has to be reasonable!!

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