Best UK ISP?

[Grondir]

Hey guys,

I'm getting sick to death of Virgin Media throttling my connection, I can't even login to play tonight because my connection has dropped below 1mbps from it's usual 6! Just wondering what the best phoneline ISP for gamers is out there? BT, O2, Sky etc....Just after people's experience. Need a connection that won't be throttled and preferrably with unlimited downloads. Anyone help appreciated

[ebony]

sky is 110% unlimited download speed its been tested one by me 3 weeks maxing my con and allways the same speed, from the garget show on five.

The olny other ISP that offer unlimited download speed 110% is O2 sub comany Be-unlimited i was with then 3 months and love it but i moved to sky for the tv Be-unlimited manged to get 5mb out my very old bad phoneline adsl2 sky said they could do the same but there giving me 1.1mb

https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/bepro £24.99
sky i pay £10.00 then with tv and all that and all the stuff they keep adding its gone up to a £55.00 so wehn my 12 months go i probey go back with be

ps one think i like about be is there the olny comany in the UK that offers Static IPs u can have up to 8

[Grondir]

Yeah, been looking at O2 Pro or a dedicated gamer package from Plusnet http://http://www.plus.net/residenti...band/pro.shtml. Seems like this could be interesting but not sure about the 20gb download limit?

[ebony]

Originally Posted by Grondir

Yeah, been looking at O2 Pro or a dedicated gamer package from Plusnet http://http://www.plus.net/residenti...band/pro.shtml. Seems like this could be interesting but not sure about the 20gb download limit?

u use 20gb to fast if your geting capped by virgen then your done for


You wont to look for somethink like

We'll never artificially reduce your speed to cram more people on a line (like some ISPs do).


The comany i work for brings in the internet in the UK and sells it on so i kind off know whats the better ones out there sky have a lot probs to many users on the networks same as virgen

[ebony]

edit get DU Meter Home Page tell you how much u downloading etc am hitting a good 3gb a day


6 hours on wow some other games here on the froums i steam music to my pc etc

[Grondir]

That's what I don't understand, don't even use 500mb a day. I hardly download, I don't stream music/video, I only play WOW and yet every day at peak times, Virgin throttle my connection. I can still only logon 1 toon now and running speedtest comes back with a lower speed.

Looking more likely for the plusnet pro connection, I never download but if I need to I can schedule it to be done between 12am and 8am when it's free.

Any ideas what Virgin's problem is? And even though I have 5 months left to run on a 12 month contract i'd be willing to pay the price to cancel. I've been with Virgin for 5 years, the previous 4 on their Fibre-Optic lines but when I moved house all we could get was the crappy ADSL service, (the street in front gets fibre-optic lines, but not ours).

I only want to be able to play WOW stabley and not keep getting 10,000+ms lag or booted straight off.

[ebony]

Originally Posted by Grondir

That's what I don't understand, don't even use 500mb a day. I hardly download, I don't stream music/video, I only play WOW and yet every day at peak times, Virgin throttle my connection. I can still only logon 1 toon now and running speedtest comes back with a lower speed.

Looking more likely for the plusnet pro connection, I never download but if I need to I can schedule it to be done between 12am and 8am when it's free.

Any ideas what Virgin's problem is? And even though I have 5 months left to run on a 12 month contract i'd be willing to pay the price to cancel. I've been with Virgin for 5 years, the previous 4 on their Fibre-Optic lines but when I moved house all we could get was the crappy ADSL service, (the street in front gets fibre-optic lines, but not ours).

I only want to be able to play WOW stabley and not keep getting 10,000+ms lag or booted straight off.

u infact tryed phoneing them?? i can go slower but not that even on a 1mb u sould not get that sort off ping soulds like somethink miseed up with your lines phone them and ask them and keep bugging them till they fix it be nice but nasty like tim did once

[Grondir]

Ringing them tomorrow, but i've spoken to them about the low speeds and they insist they're not throttling my line!

[ebony]

they probey not there sould be no reson they are it could be other porbs get them to send out guy to have a look and one more thing reports get loads off reports when get a email for them and show them when its get bad if u keep saying somethink they get mad and fix it

[pinki104]

i use virgins xxl package and i love it i get upto 8.7mb/s on downloads here is a screenie of me gettings 8.xx