[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by Noggo

In the end I'm going to vote with my feet and switch if things don't improve soon.

ISP's I have come up with:-
http://www.ukfsn.org/
above to Jolt servers is around 10 - 18ms
If you can go for business on above other than residential all the better, as off-peak starts at 8pm

http://www.aquiss.net/broadband-gaming.php
well what can i say. The only ISP I can find on the web, which states an average ping time to games servers.

http://www.plus.net/residential/broa...me_bbywpro_ban
Good alternative from what other people say, but low usage GB

Interesting to see that some ISPs are now offering dedicated gaming services. I've been suffering serious connection issues with a few xbox live games for well over a year now and it makes you wonder what sort of detrimental (to gamers) QOS/Traffic prioritisation metrics or other mechanisms (and I don't mean STM) are being implemented acros VM's networks.

I've periodically been running benchmarking tests using netperf and found that I can max my upstream out with about 30KB/s of udp and when you reach this ceiling it renders the whole connection unusable - bad news for hosting. This could of course be something local or even an issue with the cable modem but it makes you wonder.