New ISP.

[Stephen!]

Going from cable to ADSL... I could never do it.

[Jacob]

We use Talk Talk and it's considerably good isn't it?

[[Chris]]

Mhmm, I do have a BT line apparently, its just not hooked up.
But i'd rather get constant internet..

[N!ck]

Going from cable to ADSL... I could never do it.

On cable here at my house at university and ADSL at home. Absolutely nothing wrong with the ADSL.

[[Chris]]

Anyway yeah. Whats BE Like?

[Agnostic Bear]

Right. Im getting fed up of Virgin Media now. Getting overcharged, and are now introducing a 'fair use' policy..

They've had a fair use policy for years.

Long story short; Fair use policy is stupid/not getting the correct speed even when slowed down/overcharged/yeah.

If you're not getting the speeds advertised ring Virgin Media, they will fix this for you.

[Describe]

They've had a fair use policy for years.


If you're not getting the speeds advertised ring Virgin Media, they will fix this for you.

You can either do this or threaten to leave them, they'll more than likely offer you an improved service.

[[Chris]]

Tried that. He told me i'd downloaded 17.5gb from 5-9. Which i did. But getting throttled AFTER the 5 hours waiting period for downloading nothing. AND considering it was out of peak times and i shouldnt be getting throttled. The guy was an idiot.

I'd rather move tbh. Ive been with NTL for 4 years, then it changed to virgin and ive been there since. Getting 'free' upgrades from 1mb to 10mb . But I HAVE NEVER BEEN THROTTLED BEFORE NOW (Even downloading more than i should, during peak times.) So..

Considering BE Gives 2.5x the upload, and 2.4x the download i currently have. Plus a better phone service. For the same price. I THINK theres a problem there..

Although, we were given virgin TV free, we get £13 put into our account every month, and then £11 taken out for the TV. so really, were paying LESS for having the tv thing. Even though its not used :s

[Stephen!]

You have to think though, what speeds are you really going to get on ADSL?

All my friends are on ADSL, and my speed whilst throttled is still faster or sometimes the same speed as what they're getting all the time.

BE say they give you 24MB, you will never, ever get that. No way on an ADSL connection. You would be lucky to get 7.

Yes, I'm trying to defend VM's cable service here (their ADSL is probably the worst in the country). Their cable is a truly brilliant service and since they started the 20MB service, I have never seen it lower than 19MB.

Also, if you start downloading from 4PM, but only hit the limit at say, 8PM, you have to add 5 hours to that time. So your speeds would return at 1AM.

[xxMATTGxx]

You really may as well stay with Virgin until you get like BT Infinity in your area or something.