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bradshaw
19-08-2007, 19:04
This is my first post, so Hi to everyone. Just wondering whether to opt for Virgin or BT broadband in Reading. Installation will be for 4-students who will be sharing a house just East of the Royal Berkshire Hospital for 12-months starting end of Sept . I've heard that the service from Virgin in the area is not that good. Any personal experiences either way to help me decide which way to go would be greatly appreciated.

gianfrancoliam
19-08-2007, 19:14
I live in Reading and have had the full 20meg for the past month. Before that i was maxing out at 10. So in all the service i've benn getting is good.

xspeedyx
19-08-2007, 20:34
all depends vm is unlimited and BT is but I here they stm all the time and vm is only peak hours and if they is 4 ppl best off with vm £29 20mb bb all good

and welcome to cf

dragon
19-08-2007, 21:04
all depends vm is unlimited and BT is but I here they stm all the time and vm is only peak hours and if they is 4 ppl best off with vm £29 20mb bb all good

and welcome to cf

BT tend to cap my HTTP to around 0.5mbit/s 4pm - midnight.
They also thorttle torrents heviliy

No idea why the picked to shape HTTP and not other proticals.

xspeedyx
19-08-2007, 21:07
really hate bt bb as I had 1.1mb and it kept disconnecting and they wouldnt help

dragon
19-08-2007, 21:20
really hate bt bb as I had 1.1mb and it kept disconnecting and they wouldnt help

8128kps sync here with a 11.3db SNR. :D
Mind you I live down the road from my local exchange so its not surprising really

xspeedyx
19-08-2007, 21:24
well i would love to live near my exchange

reggplant
20-08-2007, 17:59
BT tend to cap my HTTP to around 0.5mbit/s 4pm - midnight.
They also thorttle torrents heviliy

No idea why the picked to shape HTTP and not other proticals.

Apparently they're supposed to shape all ports other than http but their traffic management system sucks so bad I got around 0.4Mbit after 6pm, torrents get shaped to around 30Kb/s and they tend to create an unsolvable NAT error. :P
I moved from BT to virgin and so far virgin have been a dream :) I've yet to hit the 3GB cap too.

If you want to go with ADSL try Be (https://www.bethere.co.uk/) they're supposed to be quite good.

xspeedyx
20-08-2007, 18:24
most new adsl complanies let you get away with loads until they get massive and then the ****t starts

winterstorm
20-08-2007, 19:32
I'm on VM 20Mb and can't complain, it performs well most of the time and does everything I want it to, probably not quite the same area as you as I'm to the west of the RBH so probably not the same uBR, but I'd expect similar performance.
I've no experience of BT, however I don't think the exchange is too far away so you should get reasonably performance on ADSL too, although judging by other comments you probably don't want BT's offering :-)

Pushkar
21-08-2007, 07:19
Virgin for sure, although you'll find around 95 percent of this forum is against VM or theres no point in this forum.

dragon
21-08-2007, 18:34
Virgin for sure, although you'll find around 95 percent of this forum is against VM or theres no point in this forum.

Thats kinda true people usually come here becuase they have a problem they need some help with. ;)

bradshaw
21-08-2007, 21:50
Thanks for the responses.
Seems that people are more in favour of VM than BT ... I'll probably go for the VM 4Mb package. Looking at their web site, there's a £17 pm offer for 12-months if you sign-up before end of August ... is this a really good deal or just inline with the competition?

xspeedyx
22-08-2007, 14:11
yeah its good but I would go with 20mb mmmm nice and fast 20mb here

dragon
22-08-2007, 18:36
There are many more ISPS out there than just virgin and BT ;)