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Time to change my isp.
I’m with Virgin Media and have learned theat they are throttling downloads all the time.
The “broadband” I’m getting from them gives me a download speed of 23kbps tops.
Needless to say, when I change I’ll be informing them that I consider their contract to supply me with a braodband service has been broken and they can stick it if they think I’m paying it off, but that’s besides the point.
So, where should I go?
I’m stuck on a BT landline and have a friend whose missus works for them who seems to think BT will also be implementing this download throttling policy in the near future, so BT is not an option.
I’m looking at O2 at the moment simply because I can walk away within a year without any questions asked. Problem is I’m not really in the know with all this isp malarkey so if anyone can give me any pointers it would be appreciated.
Im with Zen and never had a problem with throttleing and i torrent allot at the moment, so much so i’ve upgraded to the active package, 50 gig download limit per month for about 34 quid. I know zen is more expensive than many others but they wont fuck you about. Pings are constantly good and ive had 2 lost connections (that i noticed) in the last 3 years, each lasting about 20 mins max.
You do get what you pay for, ohh and it’s a 1 month minimum contract
o2 are pretty good and cheap if you have an o2 phone (pay and go). Think the deal my Mother gets is 15Mb broadband for £15 a month as long as she tops up her mobile with £10 a month. good enough value and the service is pretty good. The router they provide is alright, but there are better ones out there.
virgin only throttle if you go over a certain download amount between 16:00 – 20:00 (or something like that) and then they will cap you for the next 24 hours.
tell you downloader to pause between these times and all will be well
i know this sucks ass but a recent ofcom investigation still had virgin at about twice the speed of adsl providers wich were all about the same.
ISP and package Average speed
AOL Broadband (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.3 to 3.9Mbit/s
BT (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.8 to 4.2Mbit/s
O2 (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s)* 4.1 to 5.1Mbit/s
Orange (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.8 to 4.5Mbit/s
Plusnet (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s)* 3.8 to 4.9Mbit/s
Sky (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 4.0 to 4.7Mbit/s
Talk Talk (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.8 to 4.6Mbit/s
Tiscali (‘up to’ 8Mbit/s) 3.2 to 3.7Mbit/s
Virgin Media(‘up to’ 10Mbit/s) 8.1 to 8.7Mbit/sfull details here
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/features/broadbandspeedsjy
cheers
I think the quality of service with Virgin differs depending whether you’re on cable, or ADSL. I’ve been on both, and the cable is normally excellent, while the ADSL was rubbish (100ms ping to UK servers minimum ffs). It may be related to local infrastructure as well though.
Thanks all, I’m waiting my MAC code and I’ll decide where I’m going in the next few days.
Anyone who is with Virgin should jump ship on principle as far as I’m concerned. This goes a lot further than peak time “shaping” or whatever the hell they call it. They are basically throttling downloads across the board for high bandwidth services. So Rapidshare, Megaupload, p2p are unusable.
Even Xbox Live and the BBC websites are being clamped down on so you can’t use them.
Put up with this shit from one isp and you can bet your gonads the rest will follow suit.
Luckily, they implemented this change without prior notice, so I intend to argue that they are in clear breach of their own contract. I’ll see the scum sucking fuckers in court if they think I’m paying em off.
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