is there a provider that doesn't turn everything down in "peak times", cos i'm with BT and at 4pm everything turns to shit......question is,because i use BT lines does it matter if i change internet provider....we dont have cable so that's not an option......cheers Pete

 

Any other internet provider that runs through the phone line will use BTs infrastructure.

 

usually you'll have a 2gig daily limit before the restriction is put on during peak times.

 

People keep going on about Virgin (cable) having traffic shaping etc, but I've never really noticed my internet going slow. Maybe my downloads slow a bit if I run them during the day, but on websites I've really not noticed it...

 

You won't really notice the restriction unless you've got a client like utorrent running....

 

dowloading something and it comes in at around 400kbs..........4pm....BOOM!!!....then over the next 30 seconds u can watch it go down to about 30kbs.......and then on a night with 2 computers working sometimes it's pittiful..........

 

go virgin

heres my peaktime test most stable connection ever

 

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let me guess........cable...???

 

of course would you want anything else

 

20 meg is pitifull I'm getting 65 meg download and 10 meg upload it's awesome

 

65 meg is abit pitifull really, but lets stick to general run of the mill home connections



otherwise ill start laying the smack down, but lets not start willy waving eh?

 

Willy waiving, 65 meg is in my home

 

knobheads that have cable and cant read...............fook off............

 

Knob head, mine ain't cable

 

Seen as though no provider can offer that unless its a business line, or some dodgy virgin way id say its all abit irrelevant to the question wouldn't you

 

 

Chris or Kev?

 

I'm with Sky and they're spot on, always have been. Never slows down as far as I can tell, but I pay for the top package but even so that's only Ł15 a month.

 

Hello mr smith, it's chris

 

About as irrelevent as you posting up virgin speeds when it's not available to the guy

 

Were on talk talk (aka tiscali) My torrent's are running 24/7 i try not to run from 3pm till 7pm if i have to download any film.

On the connection we have via phone line i'm getting around 550kbs-650kbs for downloading, not sure if it's because i'm on a private site?

Have run it with a torrent running at 5pm and it does go slow, only if the seeds on the film are high.

 

pete in answer you your question with no more piss taking

https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/homepage

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/750836183.png

that is my speed pete and i am with bt openworld bud !!

 

unable to supprt

 

http://www.ukonline.net/

?

 

i live in a little village..........but like said above, it all comes through BT lines

 

Evening, bout time you showed your face on here.... Olie needs to post now (even though he's been a member for 5 years and never posts)

 

I'm with pipex here is my speedtest taken 6.50

 

To answer Petes questions i get 1.9 meg with BT in a little village 4 miles from the exchange for Ł14.99

 

im on 50mb virginmedia, never slows down and regularly download 10gb hd films and it never slows down or owt

heres my results on my wireless laptop

 

thats pretty good for out there smit, a bit further down the road and yo would omly be getting about half meg

 

You don't have to go with virgin to avoid traffic shaping, you need to find a provider who offers an LLU service. Check your exchange at samknows.com.

 

this thread is doing my head in allready..............i did it and got 2.51 down and 0.35 up..............these tests mean fuck all...............

 

i would never call 80ping pretty good

 

Well perhaps because....

1. You have no idea where i live and...
2. Your not a BT openreach engineer...

And your victim you've picked on 1. Knows where i live and 2. Has been one for 10years. So have one of these..

It's not like i bought my cossie off him or anything........... O wait hang on............

 

Fuck off and stop bragging!!! I live in a large town and can only get 1.5 download and 0.35 upload at the best of times, that's with Sky 8mb too... bastard BT lines. I will never move into another house that does not have cable internet access!

 

how far do you live from your telephone exchange? distance is the only reason the line will make your connection slow unless the line is faulty (yes it can be faulty and the phone still be ok) if you are close to the exchange and getting low speed get hold of your service provider and tell them they should send an engineer to do a healthcheck, also if you have a proper master socket (the one where the bottom half will unscrew) remove this if you have hardwired extensions and test from the socket you find behind the plate, you will be surprised how many people have slow speeds due to poor or incorrect internal wiring.

 

1. i dont need to know where you live to know that you dont call 80ping very good,

2, i dont need to be an engineer to know that 80ping is not very good

so thanks for the but its really not needed in this case

 

If I use the AA Route Planner website, it says my house is 3.18 miles from the exchange, is this classed as far away?

My ping is usually around 87ms when i do checks online too, which really spoils playing games like Call Of Duty online with the PS3.

I only have a master socket in the house, no extensions etc, the PS3 is hard wired to the router but we use wifi for laptops etc.

What sort of cost would i be looking at to have a BT engineer pop round and do a few checks?

 

Ben not sure if you know or not but you need to make sure interleaving is turned off, can lower your ping quite abit but sometimes makes the line abit more unstable i know alot of people who have done this with BT so worth a shot