Virgin or BT? fibre

luketraceyuk

Buzby wrote: »

NEITHER offer 'fibre'. You are falling for the marketing nonsense - you'll get copper only, and VM will provide up to 120Mb and no phone line either.

But Virgin does throttle you speed?

Peter999_2

Buzby wrote: »

NEITHER offer 'fibre'. You are falling for the marketing nonsense - you'll get copper only, and VM will provide up to 120Mb and no phone line either.

BT do offer fibre, its just not available to a lot of people yet.

cajef

Buzby wrote: »

NEITHER offer 'fibre'. You are falling for the marketing nonsense - you'll get copper only

Well that makes me wonder what I have got as I watched the openreach engineer blow the fibre cable through to my property and as there no new green cabinets near me the FTTP I have installed and am paying for must be a myth.

kwikbreaks

luketraceyuk wrote: »

But Virgin does throttle you speed?

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html

luketraceyuk

kwikbreaks wrote: »

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html

What a mine field its looking like BT then.

Jon_01

What worries me about BT is when we had them for BB at work we had to call them around every 3 days to get it reset... which took about an hour each time!

I don't have the time or inclination to be doing that now...

kwikbreaks

Depends on how heavily you download during the traffic management periods. VM claim only 5% of users are ever impacted.

Helix

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Depends on how heavily you download during the traffic management periods. VM claim only 5% of users are ever impacted.

You only need to watch Netflix in 1080p for an hour in the evenings to trigger throttling on some of the packages.

techno12

Have you looked at Plusnet?

I switched to them a couple of weeks ago, after BT screwed up my order for Infinity (long story).

Very pleased so far - just done a speedtest now, and this is with me currently downloading something in the background (from a slow server)



My flat is fairly close (100m) to the green cabinet where the fibre kit is, hence the decent speeds.

I haven't noticed any traffic management as such, just an occasional slowdown to once in a while when doing actual downloads (slowest I've seen it is around 55Meg, but that could be just general congestion on the route from Easynews. Still pretty decent..)

Friendly UK based customer service as well.

Plusnet is owned by BT, but don't let that put you off

Jamie_Carter

luketraceyuk wrote: »

But Virgin does throttle you speed?

That depends on what package you have. I used to have 120mb with them, and it was totally unlimited. Due to cost saving I am now on 30mb, and as yet I have never had my speed throttled.

If the OP id a heavy user, and wants high download speeds, then they would be better off with Virgin 120mb. But it often works out cheaper to have a phone line included, even if you don't use it.