Switching from BT but with 3 gamers, worried

berthabean22

Hi all

We switched to BT infinity 2 a couple of years ago (including phone package) but the prices are now just too much each month, I'm now paying almost twice as much compared to when we started with BT.

I've got 3 teenage gamers in the house and I'm a bit worried that other providers just won't have the speeds we need, meaning upset house with buffering games like we used to get with Virgin.

Any recommendations from other providers....Thanks

Cycrow

For gaming, its not really the speed that matters too much. Its more about the latency. If its fibre you are after, then all providers, except for Virgin use BT anyways, so they should al have similar speeds

JJ_Egan

What speed do you need ??
What speed are you getting now .

onomatopoeia99

Cycrow wrote: »

For gaming, its not really the speed that matters too much. Its more about the latency. If its fibre you are after, then all providers, except for Virgin use BT anyways, so they should al have similar speeds

Of course if other providers underspecify their links at the exchange or peering points to save money, then packet loss could be introduced on their FTTC product that would not affect users of BT Internet's equivalent.

Just because all ISPs apart from Virgin use BT's final mile infrastructure does not make them all equal.