I just wanted to note that I moved onto Xilo on C&W wholesale and found my latency spiked so they requested interleaving be switched off, this reduced latency (which was important as I have been working from home and using VoIP) but reduced the connection speed from 3.4 Mbps to 2.2
I decided to switch to the BE 16 package (unlimited) which was also available slightly more cheaply than Pro 16 and the equivalent LLU on Vivaciti and am now getting just under 3.6 down and 950 K up.
TBB monitor shows an average latency of 18ms and the call quality is excellent too (am running VoIP plus an RDP session into my PC at work as some apps can't be run outside the network due to licensing)
Sp really quite chuffed considering what I put up with on a BT based connection despite the best efforts of Zen who did do as much as they could within BT's constraints.
So I am an official LLU convert.
Xilo have been extremely helpful too (as were vivaciti)
All the best to everyone for 2013
Virgin (ADSL) => Namesco => Newnet => O2 => Plusnet => Zen => Newnet => Zen => Freeola => Vivaciti (using O2 Wholesale DSL) => Xilo (C&W Wholesale) => Xilo (Be Wholesale)
Note: I don't lay turf for anyone. astro or otherwise, all views and opinions expressed are my own based on experience.
Edited by techguy (Tue 01-Jan-13 18:53:07)