Author Topic: Any one know which cable broadband companies are any good?? (Read 1058 times)

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

55starchief · « **Reply #1 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

EDGE · « **Reply #2 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 ......

55starchief · « **Reply #3 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?

Pod · « **Reply #4 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....

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.

55starchief · « **Reply #5 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

philoldsmobile · « **Reply #6 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

55starchief · « **Reply #7 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

ianjpage · « **Reply #8 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

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

philoldsmobile · « **Reply #9 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...

F Body · « **Reply #10 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

EDGE · « **Reply #11 on:** November 16, 2007, 11:09:28 am »

riiiiight...

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

ianjpage · « **Reply #12 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...;

F Body · « **Reply #13 on:** November 16, 2007, 12:37:46 pm »

Quoting: ianjpage

there speed and service up time is fairly good (at least for us)

In the dark days of early NtHell it was more often down than up

But since Baz has been paid to go out and fix the cabinets all is well