Reccomend a UK ISP for Good Ping and Reg in BF2 (DSL)?

2009-02-14 09:43:26

#1

BENBOBBY: Member; +14|5823|UK

Hi,

Could anyone living in the UK who actually has fairly good ping and hit reg reccomend a good Internet Service Provider (DSL not cable) please?

Currently Im with 2Meg AOL and have pings of 70-90+ most of the time. Sometimes its so bad I cant even walk straight without 'bouncing' off things and get kicked for "Lossing Key Packets" and "Corrupt Packet Flow"!

So Im looking to change provider - my line can support up to 8Meg and needs to have no download limit. Ignoring cost, which is considered the best for gaming? Are Virgin or BT supposed to be any good?

Thanks.

2009-02-14 09:45:13

#2

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6764|so randum

BT seems to be ok. Avoid Virgin

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2009-02-14 10:13:10

#3

robcr9: Member; +111|6245

FatherTed wrote:
BT seems to be ok. Avoid Virgin

wow. I'm going to say the complete opposite. I'm on BT, worst reg ever ( probably depends on where you live)

If you live in an area for Virgin 50mb, get it. My mate gets 12 pings on 20mb. Some guy from NL I know, he has 50mb broadband and gets pings of 1/2 on NL servers

EDIT: Just read the OP properly, get BT, virgin is only good for cable

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2009-02-14 10:25:56

#4

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6461|Winland

BF2 reg is never good.

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2009-02-14 10:26:56

#5

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6757|N. Ireland

Avoid BT.

2009-02-14 10:48:33

#6

Aries_37: arrivederci frog; +368|6839|London

I have aol 1mb (should be 8mb ) and used to ping 9 to multiplay servers

reg sucked, but without moving out of the UK you can't help that

2009-02-14 11:00:22

#7

13/f/taiwan: Member; +940|5963

I know Surgeons gets like a 5 ping in UK servers. Although he uses his Uni's ISP.

He gets some crazy download/upload speeds.

2009-02-14 12:19:54

#8

Noobeater: Northern numpty; +194|6711|Boulder, CO

I use Be broadband, very good service. Get pretty much all of the 8meg line limit, no download limit. Only thing is the routers a bit shit but its free so...

Bt and virgin are both crap ISP's unless you can get cable internet in which case virgin do very good broadband. 02 are also good and pretty cheap (they literally bought be and just copied all of be's ideas and systems).

2009-02-14 14:31:24

#9

rammunition: Fully Loaded; +143|6125

im with virgin media, i have 20MB fibre optic and get 19.6MB constant. I will say virgin media but its up to you

2009-02-14 15:17:14

#10

mafia996630: © 2009 Jeff Minard; +319|7027|d

2mb talktalk. Its free! (Except for line rental which everyone pay for anyway)

2009-02-15 21:19:54

#11

twoblacklines: all grown up now (its boring); +49|6471

aol / talktalk / carphone warehouse here, its fucking shit, 30kb/s till 1am till 7am then i get 300kb/s and then back to 30kb/s. uk servers ping hovers around 110. its on PHORM aswell which is bad.

Luckily i dont pay for it!

2009-02-15 21:29:02

#12

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6703|King Of The Islands

So basically avoid BT, Virgin, AOL, Talktalk and Carphone Warehouse and you should right?

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2009-02-17 03:27:04

#13

BENBOBBY: Member; +14|5823|UK

Thanks for all the replies guys! Seems a bit inconclusive - some people seem to love BT others hate it! Maybe it depends more on where you live rather than the actual ISP, I dunno? Be broadband always seeems to have good reviews but sadly I cant get it in my area. Im leaning more towards O2 now...

2009-02-17 03:36:34

#14

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6884|Mhz

Freedom2surf, pricey but, my ping is never over 20.

2009-02-17 04:06:54

#15

Noobeater: Northern numpty; +194|6711|Boulder, CO

BENBOBBY wrote:
Thanks for all the replies guys! Seems a bit inconclusive - some people seem to love BT others hate it! Maybe it depends more on where you live rather than the actual ISP, I dunno? Be broadband always seeems to have good reviews but sadly I cant get it in my area. Im leaning more towards O2 now...

02 and be are near enough identical so I would be surprisd if you could get 02 but couldn't get be as they use the same infrastructure.

2009-02-17 04:27:34

#16

Benzin: Member; +576|6262

Why would you want DSL and not cable, though???

2009-02-17 04:30:20

#17

robcr9: Member; +111|6245

CapnNismo wrote:
Why would you want DSL and not cable, though???

His area doesn't have cable...

2009-02-17 05:30:34

#18

JoshP: Banned; +176|5953|Notts, UK

Noobeater wrote:
BENBOBBY wrote:
Thanks for all the replies guys! Seems a bit inconclusive - some people seem to love BT others hate it! Maybe it depends more on where you live rather than the actual ISP, I dunno? Be broadband always seeems to have good reviews but sadly I cant get it in my area. Im leaning more towards O2 now...
02 and be are near enough identical so I would be surprisd if you could get 02 but couldn't get be as they use the same infrastructure.

You can get o2 in non-Be areas, except you can only get a reduced, not as fast, and slightly more expensive service.

2009-02-17 15:20:33

#19

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6394|Carnoustie MASSIF

Don't go for Bt, I used to work for them, and believe me, the service is shocking.

2009-02-17 15:28:22

#20

Monkey Spanker: Show it to the nice monkey.; +284|6516|England

go for eclipse great service, friendly, UK based only have a fair use policy which is 40gb per month i think so not to bad
http://www.eclipse.net.uk/

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