Heavy User

Ok... I'm not going to lie. I am a file hoarder, I guess you could say a connoissuer of sorts?... Probably not...

But anyway, I have been trawling the web for hours trying to find the best deal for my new house. I am seriously considering someone like 'Be' but do they employ traffic shaping / bandwidth throttling techniques? Im after the ISP choice for heavy p2p users and gamers. The PlusNet pro package sounds great, but [censored] caps me!

AOL have also tickled my fancy with their whole 'Free Laptop' or 'Free PS3' but again will I get throttled as well as getting stung by a 24 month contract?

It all boils down to this -

1. I want the fastest but more critically most reliable service possible.
2. NO download / upload limits including peak and off peak services.
3. NO traffic shaping or p2p throttling.

I do appreciate we live in a technologically backward country (considering Japans latest efforts), but what do you guys think sounds best?

Cheers

I was using sky's base service (2meg: 2gig) for 6 months and downloading 80gig minimum every month. No shaping, p2p throttling, no on or off peak and never heard a thing from them. I felt so guilty that I decided to go to mid (8meg: 40gig). FUP policy on max (16meg) is reputed to be 250gig. You can reduce your ping time at the cost of download speed I understand. Perhaps one of the other posters would like to carry on with regard to this.

Johnno

Take a wander around both those forums and see which of the 2 ISPs will give you the least grief
AOL are rumoured to cap/throttle, but BE dont seem to (people download hundereds of gigs worth every month and nothing seems to be said)
BUT...........Be are having DNS problems.
This wont affect your downloading, though..just a pain getting to the sites where the
downloads are
HTH

Purdy

Isnt BE just O2 and arn't O2 going LLU?

O2 bought Be, Be are LLU, O2 is only available where Be have LLU kit.

Why do you think it is a 24-month contract? Read the AOL and ISP Unhappiness forums.