Overall I'm happy with SSE. For £21 a month can't complain. Needed to download a 3GB app the other night, took 8 minutes, this is fine

In reply to a post by davidoff911:

SSE operate a very restriction traffic management policy.

They throttle their users usually at time of peak demand such as evenings and weekends.

The price is amazing if you just want regular usage. For me, SSE is not recommended for P2P i.e. any sort of torrenting.

The 150+ pages on UKHD with complaints backs that up

ISPs that do not slow down P2P:

1) Sky
2) PlusNet
3) BT
4) TalkTalk

I would say if you slow it down you're one of the odd ones out.

+ AAISP
As far as I know also Pulse8broadband.

In reply to a post by rjh321:

what they sent me - a dual-band Technicolor TG589vac, which works well.

Hello all
I'm almost out of my current contract so I'm choosing between SSE and Plusnet. I know Plusnet give you the Hub One that can run OpenWRT (although some soldering is required).
As for SSE's TG589vac - can someone please check and tell me if it hasan option for a Bridge mode? It should be there - at least TG589n has this - but I'm not sure if SSE's version has a locked down firmware?

Looking in "Setup Your Gateway" under "Connection Configuration - VDSL", under "Routed Type", there is a "Bridge" option, if that's any help. This site has the most information about this router:
Technicolor TG589vac

Tread carefully. They suspended sign ups because they couldn't handle the influx. From 55mb down to 0.5mb at peak and a couple of BTOR engineer visits before I was allowed to leave penalty free (and I wasn't the only one).

Maybe it has improved now, which hopefully it will do as it could be a good service.

Agreed with Discus - be very careful.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Fri 21-Oct-16 20:07:09)