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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #30 on: April 14, 2007, 05:14:20 PM »
That's bad. Bad enough to get you a refund for part of your service charge, perhaps? I'd fucking ask.
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« Reply #31 on: April 14, 2007, 05:16:31 PM »
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #32 on: April 14, 2007, 05:23:42 PM »
Quote from: duncvis on April 14, 2007, 05:14:20 PM
That's bad. Bad enough to get you a refund for part of your service charge, perhaps? I'd fucking ask.

Unfortunately, BT's own speedtester gives much different results, and I doubt they'd accept a third party speedtester.

Quote from: spaghetto on April 14, 2007, 05:16:31 PM
http://www.zen.co.uk

Zen is very expensive.  :(

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14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.

14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?

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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #33 on: April 14, 2007, 05:41:33 PM »
I just checked the 'use port 80' box, and my speed jumped way up:  http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/11765940404016266811.html

Is BT restricting the speed on other ports?
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #34 on: April 14, 2007, 05:56:27 PM »
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Right now I'm with BT broadband, on their 'up to 8Mb' package, for about £28 a month. 

http://www.zen.co.uk/Broadband/athome.aspx?page=455

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« Reply #35 on: April 14, 2007, 06:09:36 PM »
That's with a 20GB cap though.  My current package is unlimited (though there's a fair use policy, but it used to be a 40GB cap on my current package, so the fair use policy can't be for less than that).  The 'unlimited' Zen package is £35.
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #36 on: April 14, 2007, 06:14:08 PM »
i've only once come close to the 20GB cap and i torrent a fair amount of stuff. do you regularly go over 20Gb a month?
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #37 on: April 14, 2007, 06:16:54 PM »
Yeah.  I've downloaded 18GB in the past couple of weeks through torrents.
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #38 on: April 14, 2007, 06:25:54 PM »
think there's many that hit those kind of limits without downloading mostly illegal stuff through torrents? how? and if not what do the isps thing people are doing with all that bandwidth
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #39 on: April 14, 2007, 06:28:56 PM »
Quote from: spaghetto on April 14, 2007, 06:25:54 PM
think there's many that hit those kind of limits without downloading mostly illegal stuff through torrents? how? and if not what do the isps thing people are doing with all that bandwidth

It's not their job to care; just to make as much profit as possible.  Unfortunately, that means pocketing all the money we're paying them, rather than using it to lay more fibre and build more exchanges.
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #40 on: April 14, 2007, 09:10:42 PM »
how do you find out wich isp you have and know if its any good?
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #41 on: April 14, 2007, 09:26:07 PM »
thanks callaway :clap:
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #42 on: April 14, 2007, 09:26:52 PM »
Ask whoever set up the internet connection you use, then check out the reviews for it and run some speed tests.
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Re: Which ISP should I use?
« Reply #43 on: April 14, 2007, 09:30:31 PM »
cool, now i just need to figure it out. im so not a computer guy
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