Broadband Internet & ISP Recommendations?

I've just ordered BT Infinity the 40Gb limit version - I won't need that much

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BSkyB agreed on 1 March 2013 to buy the fixed telephone line and broadband business of Telefonica Europe, trading under the O2 and BE brands. The company agreed to pay £180 million initially, followed by a further £20 million after all customers had been transferred to Sky's existing business. The sale is subject to regulatory approval, due in April 2013.

Pretty happy with plusnet fiber optic so far, had an issue with the router, called the customer support number and got sorted, no call waiting on saturday morning, I am impressed.

FWIW I'm with BT - monthly bill for the 'Total Broadband' with unlimited calls turns out to be cheaper than the 'calls only' package we used to have. Consistently over 7 Mb from a rural exchange in the Shropshire Hills and 10Gb monthly limit that has been more than enough given that I don't habitually download music play games or stream anything.

On the one occasion it failed I went through the helpdesk routine (which didn't sort anything) and a man in a van turned up the following day. Problem turned out to be insufficient electricity at the exchange - more an indicator of how far we are from civilization than anything else...

^^ That answers that then. Doubt there will be any regulatory concerns stopping it going through.

So who are good alternatives? Usage limits, traffic shaping, proxy servers >>>>>

BE Unlimited Faceache page is getting a battering! Being called MAC Monday.....

whyyyyyyyyyyy

seriously, any tips to fix this if it's my fault?

better today. but this only happens 10% of the time.

Is it worth £5 extra to move to 60MB or just switch provider?

fuuuuuuuu

Is that cable? You're using London and Maidenhead to compare but they are both too slow for 2013..

I've started to keep my VPN on at all times at home, suddenly Virgin can't throttle my bandwidth it seems? Instead of a measly 100kb/s from dropbox I'm now getting speeds up to 1mb/s

This is with BT Infinity. Love it.

On my iMac via wifi I'm getting,

Which is fine for the very modest amount I'm paying but, on my iPhone I'm getting

Which is shite. I presume it should be slower on the iphone but stuff just isn't loading. I can make it work for a short while by switching from DHCP to BootP in the wifi settings or turning wifi off and on again etc but it quickly reverts to not working.

WTF???

My understanding of all this stuff is not massive by any means but shirley there should be an easy way for me to make it work properly?

I had the same thing at home a while ago. Re-started the router a few times and that solved it. No idea why.

I changed the security from wpa to wep (or vice versa or something) and have been rewarded with much faster connection for the iPhones plus an improvement in range.

Mental.

... I sacked Sky in protest that they sold on my details to 3rd parties. And Murdoch.

When O2 sold their broadband business to Sky I changed to the Co-operative broadband.
Cheap and good. Would recommend.

Had been meaning to leave BE since March when Murdoch bought it, now it seems Infinity has arrived in our area.

Should I just go with that, or can I now get fast broadband from other suppliers? E.g. plus.net mentioned upthread?

Which Infinity package is the best deal? Is there a cheaper way of getting it? Cashback or somefink?

quidco + plusnet working out great for me, I have their openreach one i.e. fiber optic till the BT box and then Ethernet cable with a wireless router provided by them. No downtime yet.

Hmm, plusnet are BT owned so their fibre optic to the BT box seems to be the same product as Infinity (that's how Infinity works). So a bit of a Hobson's choice but I'll work out who is doing the best deal and go with them I think.

I have a quidco account somewhere so will make sure I use that, thanks.

yeah it was between infinity and plusnet for me, plusnet turned out to be cheaper at the time I went with them (jan) quidco offered some cashback in % per month + free installation.

Still is I think, best deal seems to be the unlimited one from plusnet, works out as £30.82 a month over 18 months including phone line, which is £5 a month cheaper than BT, then you can get £70 cashback from quidco, which brings it down to £27 a month.

I'm paying £24 a month including a phone line at the moment with BE for up to 10Mb/s but we actually get 6Mb/s, so £3 a month extra for up to 76Mb/s seems like a bit of a no brainer :)

better today. but this only happens 10% of the time.

Is it worth £5 extra to move to 60MB or just switch provider?

fuuuuuuuu

it really is.

So further to that ^^ got Plusnet fibre installed on Tuesday, very happy bunny:

Gonna miss 120Mb fatband when I move house in a couple of weeks. Couldn't justify the expense living by myself so I'll have to slum it with 60Mb*

This was just after downloading GTA: Liberty City Stories from Steam. 14.5GB in just over 15 mins. I believe that's actually faster than Usain Bolt.

Weird thing is that limits are supposed to apply until 11PM, with speed throttled after 5GB. Maybe they only turn it on if the network's already struggling?

*Until I realise how much owning a home actually costs, after which I'll be down to 20Mb #firstworldproblems

Very good speeds. I think I'll get fibre once the only option isn't virgin, also doesn't steam have download speed limits?

Just checked my usage for last month out of curiosity. 384 GB.
Breaking Bad did that.

Blimey!