So, since upgrading to Virgin's 50MB, i've gotten more random internet disconnects/slowdowns in a month than I had with the 20MB in 2 years.
RAAAGE
How often does your ISP annoy you?
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So, since upgrading to Virgin's 50MB, i've gotten more random internet disconnects/slowdowns in a month than I had with the 20MB in 2 years.
RAAAGE
How often does your ISP annoy you?
Never. My broadband is my BFF.
A one minute long interruption per decade is too much for me.
Orange used to be smurfing dreadful. The absolute worst was the first time me and Dan played (THAT VIDEOGAME I MENTION ALL THE TIME) on XBL and we got to the last level and were about to beat it when my net died.
But now it's cool. Good work improving, Orange!
I've been meaning to change my isp for ages. Currently I've been on the same contract for almost 5 years and I'm, quite frankly, being overcharged. Though I do rip the piss out of the unlimited bandwidth. Been thinking of switching to O2 seeing as we don't get any awesome fibre optics here. As a general rule though broadband in the UK is :bou::bou::bou::bou: compared to our European neighbours, atleast that's what the news keeps telling me!
I'm satisfied.
My ISP at home (Comcast) has actually been pretty good; I've only had a couple of annoying incidents in several years, which seems an acceptable rate. Of course I've been at college for 3/4 of that time, so maybe they've been absolutely terrible when I'm away.
I just got a different ISP at my new apartment (Cox), and I know nothing about them but hopefully they'll be good to me as well.
BFF= Paris Hilton.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Rantzien
MY ISP always regularily drops connection... I have to live with it :P Its either that or no internet!
I hate my connection. I miss my cable, now that was awesome. But not now. It takes way to long to watch clips on YouTube. I mean it'll take over five minutes for a half minute clip to load. And pictures take to long too. And it's not cheaper, they said it would be, but it ain't.
>>> I remember my old 56k connection, those were good times..
Here at school it works well. It's fast both wireless and wired.
At home it sucks, but my parents pay like $10 a month for it.
I'm with virgin too and have had the same problem as the OP. Often I can't get on the internet at all. Virgin sucks.
Pretty much all Australian internet is either :bou::bou::bou::bou: or overpriced. My net is decent enough I guess, it's a step up from the bottom-tier of dial up I used to have. Still, a ping of inside 2 seconds would be nice.
I used to be on aol and that was pretty damn terrible. Eventually I switched to Talktalk and I haven't had any problems since.
I actually work for a cable company (SPOILER)(charter) and we get the higher tier ( I believe its 20 MB now?) for nothing. we are soon going to be updating our QAM and start "Narrowbanding" to each nodes to give more bandwidth and speed so I am actually hopefully looking at 50 MB for nothing soon. Plus My service is great! My connection never drops off and I havent had an outage yet. plus if I ever do have a problem, its nothing I can't handle on my own or call in a system tech to check on for me for free.
and the only problem with DSL over cable is the shared bandwidth but I live way WAY out in the country and I am actually on the last port of the cable plant so my speed is always topped out any time of the day.