Help me find an ISP that won't do me over for downloading

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  1. trance_fan

    trance_fan Registered User

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    Sky is OK, I switched recently due to cost (bt was £22 per month!) and i'm getting slower download speeds and increased latencies in games.

    With bt it would be around 25ms, now it's upper 50s/low 60's
  2. Conway

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    the latency on virgin is gash like :(
  3. Mr.B.ThatsMe

    Mr.B.ThatsMe 'yi raji puff

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    I only play UT zeroping Instagib, so ping isn't an issue for me! ;) (for now... there's bound to be a good fps multiplayer game out soon similar to UT)

    I'm only really concerned with download speeds RE: torrents, bandwidth limits and any tendencies to send me lettres about downloading illegal files. Terrorism documents etc...
  4. Adam

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    I'm not too sure mate - i was previously with AOL & BT for a while and there has been no noticeable difference in speed / latency in games is the same as it was.

    THere's a good website - skyuser.co.uk which has loads of info about it in the forums and a lot of user reviews / issues etc if you want to read up on it a bit
  5. Mr.B.ThatsMe

    Mr.B.ThatsMe 'yi raji puff

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  6. loopyloosy

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    on Virgin, £14.99p.m, is this speed good? or not?

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  7. Jimmy

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    1884 kbs download and 391 kbs upload

    Thats on the £5 a month Sky.
    I'm not sure if this is good or not buts its areet for what I use the net for.
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    We signed up to a bundle with virgin, 3 for 30 quid or so,.. tv phone and net...

    i phoned up last night to ask if i could ramp up my net speed from crappy 2 meg,

    if i do.. that cancels my bundle deal and charges individual price for each service... so my bill would go up shitloads :(

    Gonna work out some kinda money saving thing to work around that tho!
  9. trance_fan

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    thats pretty crap for the money you are paying!

    Jimmy - you are probably limited due to distance from your exchange but it's still poor
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    I dont really do much on the net to be honest, post on here, download a few tunes, facebook.
    My Xbox live runs ok so that keeps me happy.
  11. Mr.B.ThatsMe

    Mr.B.ThatsMe 'yi raji puff

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    I'm a bit of a spacka so why does it say Telewest when we have Virgin?:confused:
  13. Conway

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    telewest and virgin are now the same company :)
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    Oh, I get it now. :D
  15. LeeTheMackem

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    your connections like shit off a stick

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