In reply to a post by arg0naut:

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Whats the current provider recommendations at the moment?

Sky or Plusnet. BT Infinity is having a dodgy patch, particularly wrt P2P.

My personal opinion of anything to do with Sky is I'd only go there in desperation - because I couldn't get what I wanted elsewhere. (But I managed not to sign up to Sky TV for Formula 1, and tha's pretty important to me).

Plusnet could be best for you, given that mix. They have a traffic management system which is designed to optimise your sort of usage pattern, with no speed throttling on the unlimited package (80/20), and very little on the 40GB one, (40/10).

Relevant Plusnet links:-

Traffic management description. This applies to/within all packages, not just the Unlimited one in its title, and also across the platform - so the aggregate of all user traffic through their system.

Throttling details.

I'm on Unlimited just for the sake of it. Extra cost is £3.50pm over the Essentials. My peak-time usage is under 10GB. Sync speeds in my sig. Click BQM in my sig for latency graph.

I've kept my phone with BT Retail. That's something you can't do with Sky, who LLU your phone. That can be a pain if you want to leave.

Note the PN website looks a bit as though you have to take their (non-LLU) line rental, but you don't. Taking it does get rid of the fibre installation charge though.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 26-Jan-13 18:14:17)

A Big Thanks all round guys, some good info, and yes I am wary of going to Sky as I don't want to move the phone over.
As for Pings, Wow!!!
I average 45ms going upto 90/250 quite a lot, I used to have to phone Sky weekly to get it back down to 35ms but it only ever lasted a day or two, before their system would readjust it!

So 6ms-40ms is totally livable.

Just wait for the sign up now. 4-6 weeks, Here's hoping.
As for the unlimited being such a small extra cost. I might just go with that on PlusNet...

In reply to a post by arg0naut:

Just wait for the sign up now. 4-6 weeks, Here's hoping.
As for the unlimited being such a small extra cost. I might just go with that on PlusNet...

So have you got your FTTC service yet?
I'm further from cab 76 than yourself, but I'm getting 61Mb down and 17Mb up at the moment - although I do expect it to fall as more people are added.

The 80/20 package has access to higher frequencies.

No it doesn't.

All FTTC customers use the 17a profile, having access to the 17MHz spectrum range.