I can assure you it's such a relief when one is finally liberated from BT Retail

In reply to a post by jchamier:

For me the BT network works fine, I would just like the ability to have IPv6, and none of the networks with sufficient usage provide that at a sensible price. So my second option is to get one with a static IPv4 and then have a tunnel. That leaves out Sky/BT/TalkTalk and even Virgin Media as none of them offer static IP.

Hope it's not grandma and eggs and all that, but you do know that Hurricane will tunnel to a dynamic IPv4 endpoint (so that works out-of-the box with pfSense) and SIXXS works with AYIYA (worked for me with Linux but gave up with pfSense and went to Hurricane)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Or charge them all the same and don't differentiate. Which is why I'm not a PlusNet customer

Strange that we're beginning to get complaints about BT connections slowing down. Maybe all non-Sky heavy downloaders have gone there. Which on PlusNet wouldn't matter.

where are these complaints?

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In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I have a feeling, nothing more, that Sky may be the one with the best performing network. BT and PlusNet next of the big/cheap ones, order unknown.

For me the BT network works fine, I would just like the ability to have IPv6, and none of the networks with sufficient usage provide that at a sensible price. So my second option is to get one with a static IPv4 and then have a tunnel. That leaves out Sky/BT/TalkTalk and even Virgin Media as none of them offer static IP.

bt initially announnced ipv6 in 2013 and I think they are the only big isp to even give it a date, I am not confident it will happen in 2013 but the hh5 gui does have ipv6 pages saying "coming soon" on them.

In reply to a post by mpellatt:

Hope it's not grandma and eggs and all that, but you do know that Hurricane will tunnel to a dynamic IPv4 endpoint (so that works out-of-the box with pfSense) and SIXXS works with AYIYA (worked for me with Linux but gave up with pfSense and went to Hurricane)

Its good they do, but I ran a home firewall on a PC for about 9 years (a custom Slackware build), and finally decided to give up and move to a router when the PC finally died. The noise reduction in my small flat and the power savings were useful too

I didn't think HE coped with dynamic IP which is useful. The main issue is I don't think my endpoint can cope, but I also want to try and run VPNs etc and would like a static IPv4 anyway

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

where are these complaints?

Four in this thread for a start. One looks like a normal crosstalk or interleaving effect, one an electrical storm. Two yet to be explained.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

where are these complaints?

Four in this thread for a start. One looks like a normal crosstalk or interleaving effect, one an electrical storm. Two yet to be explained.

Could be explained by source speed limits. Nothing scientific yet.

Microsoft downloads still max out my 46 to 50 megabit line. Apple downloads are fast, but iTunes movie or TV show purchases seem to be rate limited to 20megabit.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

That leaves out Sky/BT/TalkTalk and even Virgin Media as none of them offer static IP.

You can get a static ip address on Talktalk residential, you just have to ask them very nicely on their forums

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

In reply to a post by jchamier:

That leaves out Sky/BT/TalkTalk and even Virgin Media as none of them offer static IP.

You can get a static ip address on Talktalk residential, you just have to ask them very nicely on their forums

Sky's sticky IP addresses are the next best thing to a static IP. I've had the same IP address for at least 6 months now.

so we got a guy which is probably crosstalk who dived in.

the guy stuck on 20mbps clearly isnt congestion.