PS put your Bat pet back on its leash...
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In reply to a post by Anonymous:

PS put your Bat pet back on its leash...

And I though this was a forum for adults, whatever their views, not early teenagers.

Do you really have to sink so low? Is it beyond your comprehension to see the impression it gives of you, without in any way effectively insulting the person you are aiming at?

Talk about counter-productive! At least babies can be excused for bawling uncontrollably.

Don't feed the troll!

Just for interest Andrew, as you will know a figure it would take me some time to research, what used to be considered a reasonable number of customers per 622Mbps BT Central for capacity budgetting? OK - Entnet would load more on than Zen or IDNet.

(Edit - citing Entanet instead of the original BT as RandomJointer pointed out that I had forgotten that BT used BT Central Pluses, a different thing completely).

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 13-Nov-11 00:17:47)

In reply to a post by kamelion:

Don't feed the troll!

True .

Sorry.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Is it beyond your comprehension to see the impression it gives of you

Posting as anon...says it all.

BT Retail wouldn't load more than Zen or IDNet onto a Central.

BT Retail never used 622 BT Centrals or indeed any Central. They used Central Plus which used BT's monster backbone to route directly to the internet rather than bouncing via the ISP. In fact if you are in the South of England, BT Retail was far better for pings than Zen who routed to London via Manchester.

If the OP is simply interested in gaming and pings, BT may be worth looking at. I would not advise using BE for gaming as they appeal to heavy downloaders and apparently suffer from regular ping spikes as the network creaks in various locations at various times.

It may be that as Telefonica lose customers month after month they also reduce capacity to compensate and the problems may increase. Be is good for heavy p2p use, I would caution against listening to posters recommending Be for gaming.

Sorry but that hasn't been my experience as an FPS gamer on BE. When I was on BT however my pings were all over the place as was packet loss.

I would not advise using BE for gaming as they appeal to heavy downloaders and apparently suffer from regular ping spikes as the network creaks in various locations at various times.

Something every ISP suffers from

Even during the current BE Linx problems, it rarely been a problem for gaming - it's been mostly download / throughput that has suffered for me. Will admit this hasn't been the case for all

It can be hit and miss with BE, that's true of any other ISP and at least with BE there is the option of a 3 month contract. Long enough to try out and go elsewhere if issues. I would always advise against BE Landline

I'd say that where fibre is available, go for it other wise BE is a good 2nd choice

No bias, just personal experience

Nor me on BE