I'm with Virgin Media. I get a constant 50Mb+/4.7Mb+ day and night at any time. We are expecting to have 100Mb/10Mb available soon. I think you can understand why I have no intention of changing ISP.

[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1344422951.png[/IMG]

My ping and jitter is generally constantly good, though VM has been criticised for not being that good for gamers in some of the old network areas. ie contention and all that.

[IMG]http://www.pingtest.net/result/42121491.png[/IMG]

My live quality monitor is pretty distorted today because I have been downloading and uploading shed loads, but here is a snapshot from a couple of days ago.

[img]http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/177ac...[/img]

Here's my live monitor. Looks terrible doesn't it?

[img]http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/164b8...[/img]

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I'm with Plusnet, and can recommend them if your OK with their traffic management policies, and their usage caps. Personally I *am*, because it keeps my service away from those who want the unlimited options: knowing your usage and keeping to a matching package also means you aren't subsidising someone else's broadband.

- The order was a nightmare, because things got stuck within BTW/BTO. Would have happened whatever ISP I used.
- Plusnet's support was great at overcoming the worst of BTW/BTO, but the problem still dragged
- Originally I had ADSL, was just on the border for getting full 8Mbps. Good quality line.
- I'm 550M from the cabinet (as measured by the Openreach engineer)
- Day 1 gave us a profile speed of 38717 (which equates to the top sync of 40,000), latency of 11ms, pings of 13ms.
- Day 1 BQM showed 4% packet loss.
- DLM cut in after 48 hours, added interleaving, increased latency to 18ms. No packet loss.
- DLM cut in again 12 hours later, for no apparent reason, and dropped sync speed. IP profile was about 34800, so I guess sync was about 36000.
- Day 3 BQM

I went through a regrade to get the 10Mbps uplink, which obviously reset DLM back to the starting conditions, and then went through the same 3 day experience again.

Since then, the days have been like this: BQM. It still sits with a latency of about 18ms, and a profile speed of 34,800.

Speedtest.net results are usually around 33.2-33.5Mbps. BT's speedtester can be more variable, but is usually around 31Mbps.

In reply to a post by planetf1:

Speed
- My profile is 35 Mbps
- Quite often get 34/8 Mbps speeds
- I once dropped to 27, but mostly it's well above 30 on speedtests
- On one, and only one occasion, for one hour I got around 7 Mbps. I reported it to BT via twitter, they got back to me and confirmed it was a fault - though by then it had been corrected - so only an hour
- pings vary by geography -- BTs routing can be complex. I get around 22ms to BBC from Southampton. My traffic seems to route via Birmingham. BT DLM can also enable/disable interleaving.

I don't have a Live BQM graph sorry

No download cap - BT removed the 300GB limit a month or more ago

I do use online backup and can get 7-8 Gbps

Had one recognized outage in several months -- though I don't actively monitor. was out for around 45 mins so not good...!

I switched to BT from O2 Unlimited (4/1) in Jan 2011 . Absolutely the right decision

Which online backup do you use ?.

I'm using "Squirrelsave" from memset. I don't actually use their windows software and instead script it myself using ssh/rsync, but they do have a hands-off app that just does it for you.

I'd definately recommend them - fast, unlimited, just always works

http://www.squirrelsave.co.uk/

It's actually a service from "memset" a UK (guildford) based hosting company.

In the past I've also used
- carbonite -- my main issue there was having to use the provided software, and for a time I was running linux, which there wasn't sw for.Backups were also throttled above 50GB. Otherwise the service was good
- livedrive - I signed up to a cheap promotional offer (they had a 1 day £1/unlimited/year offer -- seriously). I've never got the service working. sw is buggy, locks up multiple machines, throughput isn't great. I may try again but for now would say avoid!

Have you tried Crashplan? Friends of mine were talking about last week.

Interesting - not come across that one before.

On their site they seem to be Windows only.....did you just get it working with ssh/rsync on your own or are there more details around on that?

I use CrashPlan and it seems ok so far - i'm currently using it on a Windows machine but i'm going to move it to a Linux server i'm setting up when I get chance.

The guys at memset were happy to explain they tool used ssh and how to extract the key ... I did install the client to get it to pull the config, but then used ssh/rsync myself - obviously they didn't provide explicit help on that aspect.

It was this openness that caused me to sign up, and I've been completely happy since.

Thanks.

I've just started a 30day trial of Crashplan. It's only been 1 day so far, so I'll see how it goes.

I'll also have a look at squirrelsave though.

Another one to look at is safecopybackup.
You can backup mapped network drives and install on multiple computers.
Gets a bit expensive if you want to go beyond 300GB though.

I've been using this for a couple of years and am pleased with it.

I like that it uses a checksum to check for duplicates and has the ability to reset (Clear out file/version history and sync to your current file structure) to reduce the amount of allowance used.
When you do this it doesn't need to backup all the files again as it recognises the checksum.