Broadband for mother-in-law?

[suicidal_monkey]

ADSLguide.org (opr was it .net?) used to be what I used to pick an ISP. Useful site for pricing, user reviews, etc.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by BigFatCat@Jun 14 2006, 07:06 AM
Been using them for a while now, plus the Father in Law signed up too. They just received plaudits for their service and I've never had any real issues with them. Their support line is 0845 and they've an online call-ticket service too.
Connections are pretty fast and reliable in my experience.

If you do make the jump, let me know so I can get a 50p referral discount, I can provide a link :whistle:

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Roger Wilco

[Jamoe]

im not sure about plusnet tbh

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/new/complain/complain.shtml#4

and

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/censura....ails&itemid=244

and the ispreview forums for plunet

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/forumdisplay.php?f=61


the more i read the more i would say steer well clear.

[Wordan]

We've been with plusnet since 2000 and not had any real issues as far as I can remember. They seam to be getting tons of complaints lately though as they seam to be making a lot of changes, and well, I wouldn't want to have to phone them.... On premier packages(not sure if Plus package is the same) they priortise traffic so at peak times peer to peer can slow down, but on the upside game pings are still good... not that your mother-in-law will notice.

Another thing to keep in mind is BT's new ADSLMax 8Mb sounds good but aparently they didn't increase the backhaul from most exchanges which means more contention and slowdowns at peak times.

[Carr0t]

Well i'm glad your plusnet account is working for you. Personally, i've had nowt but trouble since they introducted traffic prioritising and such. I've tried to get back in to BF2 on DMW a few times, but my ping never drops below 150 now, with frequent spikes a lot higher, where it was around 40 or so before they introduced this traffic prioritisation stuff.

[Jamoe]

Wordan lives in Northern Ireland which might explain the differences, then again it may not

[Wordan]

Originally posted by Carr0t@Jun 15 2006, 11:57 AM
Well i'm glad your plusnet account is working for you. Personally, i've had nowt but trouble since they introducted traffic prioritising and such. I've tried to get back in to BF2 on DMW a few times, but my ping never drops below 150 now, with frequent spikes a lot higher, where it was around 40 or so before they introduced this traffic prioritisation stuff.

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Blimey. TBH I am a fan of traffic prioratisation(if it'd work). It seams logical.  I find my pings to be excellent, I am pretty sure they are better than they were. There were a few problems with some of my pings when they started using it, but those were long sorted.

EDIT: yea I noticed the DMW server ping's were quite high humm...

[Cadaver]

I'm on a Plusnet connection.  Have been for the past three years.  Service seems as reliable as it always was.  Looking at all the horror stories, maybe I've been lucky? :unsure:

Gaming ping did go down the swannee a couple of months ago, but is back to normal now.

Carrot: is the exchange you connect to suffering from capacity issues?  (See here)

[Wordan]

Originally posted by Jamoe@Jun 15 2006, 12:30 PM
Wordan lives in Northern Ireland which might explain the differences, then again it may not

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We go through the same BT network and use the same plus.net servers I think. Only difference is there is some water inbetween us  (edit)And maybe a little less exchange contention

[Carr0t]

Originally posted by Cadaver@Jun 15 2006, 02:00 PM
I'm on a Plusnet connection. Have been for the past three years. Service seems as reliable as it always was. Looking at all the horror stories, maybe I've been lucky? :unsure:

Gaming ping did go down the swannee a couple of months ago, but is back to normal now.

Carrot: is the exchange you connect to suffering from capacity issues? (See here)

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It would appear you are right good sir. Over a month after PlusNet/Force9 had started their traffic prioritising I was still having issues, and gave up checking. A new check just now shows my ping as being 28.

Tasty :dribble:

Now i'll have no excuses for those plane crashes.