BT Broadband

[Luke]

We're looking at changing Broadband providers; been searching around, and we've narrowed it down to BT and O2.
Now, with O2, you get a speedtouch router - ew. With BT, you get the new HomeHub, which looks pretty cool tbf.

At the moment, I get fluctuating speeds, between 3.5-4.5meg
With O2, their speed checker gave me between 4-6 meg, at most likely 5meg.
With BT, it gave me 5.5-7.5 most likely at 6.5!

Not believing BT, I done a line check on a house I defintiley know, gets a solid 2meg, and it came up 2meg, so the speed checker isn't lying..

I don't use torrents, so is there any other reason I shouldn't go with BT?

Luke

[Chippiewill]

You want to go with Virgin Media, service with BT is pretty piss poor but it seems like the best option here if VM isn't a choice.

[davecool656]

go with Virgin Media. I have BT and it is crap

[Luke]

We're not in a cable area; and upon inquiring, their service was capped at 10gb!?! O2 it is then!

[Chippiewill]

We're not in a cable area; and upon inquiring, their service was capped at 10gb!?! O2 it is then!

That sucks, I couldn't live without VM now, 50mbits makes me feel like a god.

[Luke]

Thanks for reminding me. :[ Not even getting Infinity in the next 2 years :/

[Jack!]

That sucks, I couldn't live without VM now, 50mbits makes me feel like a god.

So what does that make me on 100mbits?

That's a shame about VM, 02 probably sounds like someone I would go with, Shame about your speeds though BT only give 10gb?!

[jackass]

In my opinion, BT Infinity > VM. Consistant speeds of 40Mbits download, 10Mbits upload AND i've had very great service from them.

Yeah, VM generally have a faster download, but the upload is very poor and i'd like to keep my 5ms latency!

[peteyt]

I'm with o2 at home and it's pretty decent. The router isn't that bad and to be honest as long as it works should it mater what router you get.

I've however just had Bt broadband set up in my studio but that's the business version and its just been activated today so haven't been able to test it.

[Chippiewill]

So what does that make me on 100mbits?

Glutton.

Yeah, VM generally have a faster download, but the upload is very poor and i'd like to keep my 5ms latency!

They've been upgrading it, it's still not great but you don't really need that great upload speed unless you're serving web pages or something anyway.