Gaming ISP's

I am hoping to get connected to FTTC in the coming weeks if BT pull their fingers out!
All the cabinets seem to be finished just waiting for switch on.

I am thinking of going with Aquiss on their business package.

Anybody had or heard of experiences with them, good or bad?

They have told me they priortise gaming and voip as their top protocols.

Thanks.

Hi mrnelster,

It maybe worth posting also on our own forums, which will give you replies from our customers and experiences.

http://forums.aquiss.net/viewforum.php?f=15

Aquiss are an Entanet reseller, I've been with them (Entanet) for just over 4 years and have always had a cracking service for gaming. I used to play WoW online but now just play Xbox Live but never have problems with latency or lag.

Aquiss are definitely one of the better resellers, they offer very good Customer / Tech Support and have a nice community of customers on their forum

Thanks for that reply Jaxx

I'm using Be Unlimited, 6ms to BBC.co.uk. Solid too with no packet loss to speak of.

Guess I'm fairly fortunate though as it's presently all copper down to my exchange but I live close enough for it to give a good service.

Fibre would be nice but depending on the cost. I don't really need it currently. Be offer Annex M with increased upload speed to maximum of 2mbits/s or somesuch. I had it before but rarely took advantage of it. I'd rather save the few extra quid and go with Annex A instead.

It maybe worth posting also on our own forums, which will give you replies from our customers and experiences.

Thanks Martin.

Registered last night just waiting for the authorisation email.

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Hi mrnelster,

It maybe worth posting also on our own forums, which will give you replies from our customers and experiences.

http://forums.aquiss.net/viewforum.php?f=15

Thanks for the link, to the great site.


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should be fine on just about any ISP, same as ADSL.

That's not true. I used to be with sky and the line was useless for gaming. Credit where credit is due however, they tried many different ways to improve it but couldn't.

Rang BT. They said it was a common problem with Sky's poor exchange equipment and that they would reverse the problem. So silly old me signed an 18 month contract.
Though they did stop the line pausing so often, they brought the speed down.

They should have told me that they couldn't improve the latency.

Sky apparently turn the interleaving up high to give good speed at the expense of latency.
BT turned down the speed and increased the latency!

The difference to me? About an extra £20 a month.

Can't wait to get away from them.

Be* gives you FAST PATH.

https://www.bethere.co.uk

Yeah, 6ms to BBC.co.uk in my case. I kind've mentioned that already though. Not that anyone noticed/cared. Might save some money too though I guess the OP is a little more than a little jaded with previous copper line broadband provision.

Perhaps if he'd post his router stats then people who make suggestions might get a better picture of the actual physical problem with his line quality and then know when to shut up with the suggestions that don't involve fibre?

They're doing well to have multiple fingers up there aren't they?

Sky's poor exchange equipment? Were you on LLU? If not you would of been using BTs equipment. Sky has nothing wrong with their equipment in the exchange, I've seen it myself and it is the same as any other LLU.

We can help advise, as can others, but at least we don't work for an ISP/Reseller.

Tsk. It doesn't worry me either way, but people shouldn't be so blinkered.

I know exactly what the problem is. I am 6km from the exchange!

So fast path isn't really an option.

My point is BT's behaviour is unjustifiable. That's why I joined these forums. And I learnt that they should never have promised me a better connection and l would have stayed on Sky's cheaper LLU product.

As I said Sky were fantastically helpful. They just coudnt do the impossible.

BT pretended they could.

Having come from UKOnline (now closed) to be, there was talk/rumours on the UKO forum here about sky getting rid of staff who swapped peoples lines to fastpath or if it was swapped to fastpath it was soon swapped back to interleaved, blatantly obvious sky don't want people on it.

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I know exactly what the problem is. I am 6km from the exchange!

So fast path isn't really an option.

My point is BT's behaviour is unjustifiable. That's why I joined these forums. And I learnt that they should never have promised me a better connection and l would have stayed on Sky's cheaper LLU product.

As I said Sky were fantastically helpful. They just coudnt do the impossible.

BT pretended they could.

Fast path is an option no matter how long the line is. All interleaving does is protect you from noise.

What you should have done is to ask Sky to put you on a gaming profile.

Fast path is an option no matter how long the line is. All interleaving does is protect you from noise.

What you should have done is to ask Sky to put you on a gaming profile.

Long lines are bound to be noisy. Interleaving has error correction and redundancy to counter that. This inevitably slows down the line.

Fast path has neither. Interleaving is there to help long noisy lines that cannot sustain fast path.

Sky did put me on a gaming profile to no avail. BT tried fast path a d the obvious delays became even more ridiculous. One minute 65ms, 1000ms the next.
Had to swap back to interleaved.

Its just what long lines can do. Thats the whole point of FTTC.