Reliable unlimited/unthrottled ISP (alternative to O2 legacy)

Sponge

At the beginning of the year I switched from O2 legacy to Sky and it was a big mistake.

I needed to save money and I knew I was on a good deal service-wise with O2, but offers & cashback made Sky attractive.

My service with Sky has been unstable at best. I've gone from a pretty much all the time 19meg/1.1meg (d/u) to 10% of that.

I've been through support and they did something to improve the speeds and then agreed I should monitor the situation. Within 15 minutes of them closing my ticket, my speeds were fubar again.

terra_ferma

I just had a look at plusnet, and it turns out they throttle services
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/speed_guide/traffic_management.shtml

Toxteth_OGrady

terra_ferma wrote: »

I just had a look at plusnet, and it turns out they throttle services

There is not throttling on PN unlimited. If you choose to do so, you can run p2p torrents at max line speed 24/7 with no limit or throttling.

There is QoS management but once they realise what it is most users see it as a good thing. See here:

http://community.plus.net/blog/2012/12/21/its-unlimited-why-is-it-still-traffic-managed/

terra_ferma

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

There is not throttling on PN unlimited. If you choose to do so, you can run p2p torrents at max line speed 24/7 with no limit or throttling.

There is QoS management but once they realise what it is most users see it as a good thing. See here:

http://community.plus.net/blog/2012/12/21/its-unlimited-why-is-it-still-traffic-managed/

Useful to know , are you a heavy user?

Cliecost

I'm an extremely heavy user and at the moment with sky.

I get about 1.6mbps when using torrents and the speednet thing says I get 12mbps (total bo11ocks).

I need to switch in a months time as I'm dropping Sky TV so Sky BB isn't worth it. I think I'm going with either EE or Plusnet.

shoperholicnot

I moved from 02 to BT unlimited,been with them for over 2 weeks and very pleased.
Half price for a year and much faster speeds than 02, I was getting 9mb download now i'm getting 16-17mb! so far no dropped connections either.