Bt Broadband?

[oblivion_6]

ANyone got this in the scotland area or even anyone?

Im tempted to get it in my new flat but i wanted to know if anyone has any issues with it?

Cheers

 

[tbiird]

i have it but im not in scotland, its fantastic for me, downloads are very fast , connection has been faultless so far, and 2 ld's in 2 months

 

[oblivion_6]

ah nice one

so are you on the normal home 500 option aye?

 

[oblivion_6]

ah nice one

so are you on the normal home 500 option aye?

 

[oblivion_6]

ah nice one

so are you on the normal home 500 option aye?

 

[oblivion_6]

ah nice one

so are you on the normal home 500 option aye?

 

[tbiird]

yes just the normal 500

 

[bishibosh]

i have it in SE england and get a ping of 10 in counter strike, lol

 

[oblivion_6]

xclnt

Ive ordered it and its getting turned on a week today

Hopefully by then ill have got my pc set up lol

 

[Elixir]

bt broadband + most via chipsets + xp = worse than 56k

so beware....apart form that its fine

 

[oblivion_6]

via chipsets?

is that on motherboard or on the adsl modem itself?

 

[Meatballs]

my ABIT Kx7-333 works fine with the alcatel usb adsl modem. Just update your "Hyperion" (new name for 4in1s) drivers and you should be rocking. Or get a wires only installation and purchase your own choice of ADSL modem.

 

[oblivion_6]

is the modem bt give u with BB cack?

I dont even know what type it is lol

 

[g0ldenbone]

Ive got BTbroadband, and live in Scotland..

Only real annoying issue I've had is with the alcatel speedtouch (looks like a frog) modem that I got with it.

Its absolutely crap basically..

The USB implimentation on the VIA chipset is pretty poor and under certain circumstances (like 25 minutes have past ) the power to the modem dies and its reboot time.

Two ways I could have fixed it..

1. buy a new modem/router.

2. buy a PCI usb card.

I took the latter and it fixed the problem..

Apart from that, as long as you dont want technical support in a hurry they are ok.....

I guess

 

[cadiva]

Urm

Originally posted by -Laand-
bt broadband + most via chipsets + xp = worse than 56k
so beware....apart form that its fine

Not quite correct as I have BT Broadband, am using Windows XP Professional and a VIA chipset based mb and I have absolutely no problems whatsoever unless my husband decides to start downloading more Mandrake Linux

I would suspect it very much depends on which co-hosted server your Broadband connection is coming from. I live in Kent and don't have a problem at all.

EDIT: Typo

 

[oblivion_6]

Ah cool

WEll ive got internal PCI usb card anyways and if the modems not that great ive got a few adsl cards sitting around the office here so i could just em borrow one

 

[darbey]

I just moved home and decided to give BT adsl a try after being an ntl cable customer , however BT customer service so far has totally sucked and they told me it would take up to 42 days to do the relevant line checks so i told them to stuff it. Ive ordered my cable which has taken 1 week for order to installation. Better the devil u know i say.
BTW i live in the NE of England

 

[oblivion_6]

thats strange m8

i ordered mine on monday and ive received the modem this morning and the line is gonna be ready by tuesday morning

 

[-Nxs-]

I started out with ADSL with BT, and changed as soon as possible.

The connection speeds (although OK were poor compared to other ISP's) BTO enforce some kind of web proxy that really ground my websurfing to a halt at peek times, the customer support team also do not seam to know what they are on about and just follow a script.

Moved to Nildram a few months ago... no more disconnects.. no more slow web brosing... DAOC pings/packet are constantly green now !! very very happy.

check out www.dslguide.org

 

[cadiva]

Also depends on which BT

Nxs you refer to BTO so I presume you mean BT Openworld's ADSL service?

That's, I believe and I'm sure it confirms it on the website you link to, that BT Openworld and BT Broadband are two completely different services.

I have BT Broadband and I have yet to suffer any problems with it other than ones involving routers down on parts of the network at other times (Yells at OpenTransit again).

As I said before, I think it very much depends on where you live and how many other people are using the same servers to connect through.

 

[oblivion_6]

got bt broadband now

and i love it

gettin on average 60 K a second never lower than 45K and doac runs amazing

tonight im gonna go watch a mazzive zerg and see how it copes lol