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@banbury | 24 March 14 | |
BT, EE, orange and talktalk are best avoided. (orange still operate their broadband separately to EE) regardless of fibre or standard adsl broadband. That said you have to take into account that everyone has different experiances with their ISP, meaning you will always here someone complain about every provider, but its the overall figures that really matter.
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@banbury | 24 March 14 | |
I would choose virgin media where fibre optic is concerned, if I could but unfortunately they do not cover my area. Iam currently with sky but I just have a standard broadband connection which works fine for me because Iam not a heavy downloader. My web activities just consist of browsing and occasional video streaming so I have no great need for fibre.
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@newt182 | 24 March 14 | |
Virgin Media removed their traffic shaping policy for download speed not long ago, now there is no limits and your download speed is never slowed down. Upload will still slow down by up to 60pc if you go over a certain amount. I've been with VM for years now. Currently have this and a phone line for less than 30 quid per month.. |
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@banbury | 24 March 14 | |
thats good value. I know sky also make the same claim for their adsl with regards to not slowing you down, maybe its the same for their fibre too.
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@4juice | 25 March 14 | |
@ spartan2 - 14.03.14 - 12:52am 20 meg fibre I get virtually that on ADSL is it so bad in your area you can't just have a decent ADSL unlimited package? You'll blow through 40Gb easy on video streaming alone. Unlimited is worth it Internet speed doesnt make much difference if you are only using it to surf the net. 500mbps or 10mbps give you the same speed whatever your conputer is capable of. Its more about giving smooth connection for your net traffic. My brother got a 1GBps connection and loading Yahoo still takes about 5 seconds. Just that his connection can run hundreds of seedboxes at any one time. |
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@spartan2 | 28 March 14 | |
Seemed obvious to me in his OP he was wanting to do more than surf the net I have about 18meg ADSL because that is the fastest speed I can possibly get in my area and I would gladly take more when they finally get round to activating the fibre they claim to have been installing past few months. I would even consider paying for FTTP in the near future. But I digress. A 40gb cap would be crippling if you start to seriously pull down video |
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