Apparently they use Daisy Group but I have no idea about how good they are but they do have a traffic management policy which potentially could be nasty

Traffic types are identified in real-time based on a combination of port, source IP address and DPI signature detection.
This allows our network operator at any given time to manage the network capacity and prioritise time sensitive traffic by reducing the throughput of the other less time sensitive protocols.

https://daisygroup.com/product/unlimited-superfast-f...

FTTC policy including: FTTC services are not expected to
transfer more than 100 Gigabytes of data during the course of
a month. So, it clearly that SSE are misleading with UNLIMITED but there is a catch of no more than 100 Gigabytes of data in a month.

Edited by adslmax (Sat 07-May-16 23:15:51)

Maybe it is unlimited usage from SSE and if any of their FTTC customers use more than 100Gigabytes of data a month then SSE pick up the tab from Daisy for the cost of the extra usage?

Rather similar to what Plusnet do?

Nowhere as good as it looks. very high call charges, long contract and poor customer services. All which makes their 'free' broadband no cheaper than EE ... another to avoid!

Plusnet do it at an individual level unless there are severe network problems
It appears that Daisy do it globally so non priority traffic on a user can be restricted to give a higher priority to another user's time sensitive usage

Thanks, i've been looking and ruled them out based on the 100GB limit mentioned above.

BT are offering retention deals as part of their price rise (which makes you wonder why they put the prices up!) so i'll probably sign a new 12 month contract there.

You can ask PN to match SSE and don't have to worry about usage allowance as Plusnet are UNLIMITED usage data.

UPDATED: Plusnet have now BANNED match SSE price as they won't allow this anymore.