11-08-2013, 09:49 AM
^ Yeah, we're with Orange broadband (through some joing deal with my sister's mobile). And it's decent enough, but only generally about 1/5th of the advertised up-to rate.
They also seem to have a thing against downloading (and even streaming). In the past, whenever I used to download or stream, the internet would drop unless I was connected by ethernet. I'd stop downloading and *poof*, the internet would return. It didn't do it when I was last in the UK, but there was some throttling in the evening, making streaming impossible.
I heard good things about Virgin fibre-optic at the beginning. Perhaps they weren't able to cope with the huge influx of customers and the network is saturated ?
Nothing will beat the 1p-a-minute dial-up connections from the past though. Freeserve dial-up.
They also seem to have a thing against downloading (and even streaming). In the past, whenever I used to download or stream, the internet would drop unless I was connected by ethernet. I'd stop downloading and *poof*, the internet would return. It didn't do it when I was last in the UK, but there was some throttling in the evening, making streaming impossible.
I heard good things about Virgin fibre-optic at the beginning. Perhaps they weren't able to cope with the huge influx of customers and the network is saturated ?
Nothing will beat the 1p-a-minute dial-up connections from the past though. Freeserve dial-up.