- Sep 2, 2006
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Needing recommendations as to who to go to for broadband in the UK.
Basically my family went with BT when they installed the line a few years ago, it was fine at the time - paid for 1mb broadband, got 128kbs a second and that was cool for running most things.
About a year into that BT along with other broadband providers decided they were going to do the whole "UP TO" blah MB broadband scam and we started getting shafted, speed started lagging down to about 80kbs a second whereas before we got a fairly flat speed now it was all over the place, it seemed the more BT put the UP TO for other customers the slower our service got, like they were trying to fit too many people on a line that was too full, our speed is currently 30kbs a sec.
This would be almost tolerable if BT werent playing a pack of dicks though and they've recently started claimed our usage is 50gbs a month, someone at BT hasnt done the logistics of how someone with a 30kbs a second line would actually download 50gigs of data in a month - basically to do it you'd have to be using the full line capacity almost every hour of the day, so as well as sucker punching us with shitty service they are claiming we use more than we can feasibly, and yes our wireless is stable and our router is so shit that someone would have to be looking directly in our front window to actually hack it.
Now its ADSL so its not legitimately that fast, but that means that whoever we go with has to rent the line off of BT, so that limits the amount of potential ISPs a bit, but as BT are making us pay a pound for ever gig over the top amount (10) and claiming that we are using around 50 that means the broadband cost for the month is prohibitively expensive - over £60 a month for the shittiest broadband on the planet? I dont think so BT.
At the moment the only option is looking like Virgins XL package - coming in at £28 a month for us, because apparently O2 will start threatening service closure if you use over 40 gig on a non LLU line when their service states "unlimited" and Sky only offer up to 40 gig on that line type (but its not like my dad would ever subscribe to the idea of giving Rupert Murdoch money anyway).
TL;DR; So basically the question here is, who will genuinely give us unlimited usage of a ADSL(non-LLU) line for a flat fee per month.
Basically my family went with BT when they installed the line a few years ago, it was fine at the time - paid for 1mb broadband, got 128kbs a second and that was cool for running most things.
About a year into that BT along with other broadband providers decided they were going to do the whole "UP TO" blah MB broadband scam and we started getting shafted, speed started lagging down to about 80kbs a second whereas before we got a fairly flat speed now it was all over the place, it seemed the more BT put the UP TO for other customers the slower our service got, like they were trying to fit too many people on a line that was too full, our speed is currently 30kbs a sec.
This would be almost tolerable if BT werent playing a pack of dicks though and they've recently started claimed our usage is 50gbs a month, someone at BT hasnt done the logistics of how someone with a 30kbs a second line would actually download 50gigs of data in a month - basically to do it you'd have to be using the full line capacity almost every hour of the day, so as well as sucker punching us with shitty service they are claiming we use more than we can feasibly, and yes our wireless is stable and our router is so shit that someone would have to be looking directly in our front window to actually hack it.
Now its ADSL so its not legitimately that fast, but that means that whoever we go with has to rent the line off of BT, so that limits the amount of potential ISPs a bit, but as BT are making us pay a pound for ever gig over the top amount (10) and claiming that we are using around 50 that means the broadband cost for the month is prohibitively expensive - over £60 a month for the shittiest broadband on the planet? I dont think so BT.
At the moment the only option is looking like Virgins XL package - coming in at £28 a month for us, because apparently O2 will start threatening service closure if you use over 40 gig on a non LLU line when their service states "unlimited" and Sky only offer up to 40 gig on that line type (but its not like my dad would ever subscribe to the idea of giving Rupert Murdoch money anyway).
TL;DR; So basically the question here is, who will genuinely give us unlimited usage of a ADSL(non-LLU) line for a flat fee per month.
