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Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: EDGE on November 15, 2007, 02:37:30 pm
Our new house is 4km away from the exchange !!!!!!!  This kinda rules out ADSL apart from maybe ADSL2+ which will still only give 1mbps :(

Cable modems look the way ahead (up to 20mpbs) but are WAY expensive (£37/month!!!!)

Anyone know anything about Virgin media? are they shite?

Looks like i may have to get Be ADSL2+ for £14/month but only get 1mbps :(
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: 55starchief on November 15, 2007, 02:47:58 pm
Why not gof for a Vodafone data card, i know in london you can hit 8mbs on those cards and i bet they arnt much more than a ADSL2 connection

http://www.vodafonebusinessshop.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=MobileEmailAndData.usbModem&WT_ref=EBU_DEST_WOR_1

or

http://www.vodafonebusinessshop.co.uk/3GUsbModem.html
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: EDGE on November 15, 2007, 03:14:33 pm
that's more expensive than the cable though, which is 8mpb... admittedly that would work in the car too though ......
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: 55starchief on November 15, 2007, 03:16:41 pm
Quoting: EDGE
that's more expensive than the cable though, which is 8mpb... admittedly that would work in the car too though


you said cable was £37 thats £25 or have i miss read soething?
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: Pod on November 15, 2007, 05:15:38 pm
Quoting: EDGE
Anyone know anything about Virgin media? are they shite?


They used to be NTL. Make of that what you will.... (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/rolleyes.gif)

Don't forget, all the advertised speeds from everyone are 'up to', which means it will almost never happen.
More and more are doing traffic shaping - if you use 'too much' bandwidth, you get automatically limited to a much slower speed for an amount of time.
That applies to all ISP's, not just cable.
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: 55starchief on November 15, 2007, 06:09:21 pm
Quoting: Pod
More and more are doing traffic shaping - if you use 'too much' bandwidth, you get automatically limited to a much slower speed for an amount of time.
That applies to all ISP's, not just cable.


Hmm that would make sense why im only seeing 2mb download seeings as i have 30gb uploaded to my ftp (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/rofls.gif)
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: philoldsmobile on November 15, 2007, 07:00:25 pm
Quoting: EDGE
Anyone know anything about Virgin media? are they shite?


yes...and yes

the service is ok when it works, but they have absolutely NO customer service
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: 55starchief on November 15, 2007, 07:01:43 pm
Well i just called pipex and im not limited so i guess its just more traffic on the line causing my loss of speed (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/dontknow.gif)
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: ianjpage on November 15, 2007, 08:57:15 pm
well we got teh 10mb NTL virgin service and it is fine for us, mind you i can see the exchange box about 200 yds away from our back door (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/up.gif)

As phil says - dont expect any real help if/when summat goes wrong - customer service is very cr*p
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: philoldsmobile on November 15, 2007, 09:02:17 pm
took me 2 years to convince them i had a faulty modem, and to come out and change it, despite the fact it was a well known fault...
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: F Body on November 16, 2007, 07:59:50 am
Quoting: ianjpage
well we got teh 10mb NTL virgin service and it is fine for us  

As phil says - dont expect any real help if/when summat goes wrong - customer service is very cr*p



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Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: EDGE on November 16, 2007, 11:09:28 am
riiiiight...

so not virgin media then........
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: ianjpage on November 16, 2007, 12:03:00 pm
Quoting: EDGE

so not virgin media then........


Well depends - there speed and service up time is fairly good (at least for us) just the cust service that lets it down...;
Title: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good??
Post by: F Body on November 16, 2007, 12:37:46 pm
Quoting: ianjpage
there speed and service up time is fairly good (at least for us)


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In the dark days of early NtHell it was more often down than up (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/sad.gif)
But since Baz has been paid to go out and fix the cabinets all is well (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/wink.gif)