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30 July 2010 - 02:50 EDT
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It's Sky. But it's not the "good" one they advertise- it's some backup broadband ISP they bought out for people who aren't in their 20Mb area.

Totally regret it, looking into seeing if buying out the remanining 4 months of my contract and switiching to BT is viable. (Virgin isn't avaiable over here).

Frustrating thing- I'm typing this at 7.50am as I'm about to leave for work- it's the only chance I get to check my e-mails and Steam is downloading NS2 at 700Kb/s...
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30 July 2010 - 04:28 EDT
#32
Fuck, I was thinking of getting sky next year. Need to check whether I would be in a 20mb zone.

Sky support honestly told you to just use it before 3pm?
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30 July 2010 - 08:06 EDT
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re: huhuh - not quite sure just yet , i guess some time next week - like 4-8th ... no sure gonna make a poll later today.
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30 July 2010 - 08:14 EDT
#34
If you want broadband check what LLU you have available to you on samknows.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker

Then go to adslguide.org.uk and check which is the best available on their ISP comparison page. Generally Be/O2 are best but DO NOT GET O2 ACCESS (the non-LLU line) it is dire. If you live in the arse end of the moon probs best to go with zen or someone
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30 July 2010 - 08:19 EDT
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If you can get 20mb sky it's very good. If you can't... well... Sherpa says it all D:
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30 July 2010 - 13:12 EDT
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'Profix'Fuck, I was thinking of getting sky next year. Need to check whether I would be in a 20mb zone.

Sky support honestly told you to just use it before 3pm?


Yus. I was impressed the tech support person was English not Indian (deciding if the geordie accent is easier to understand is questionable, though) but yea- she clearly didn't have much technical know-how, she was just reading off a sheet.

I kept trying to explain that 0.5KB/s max on an 8Mb line with good attenuation isn't simply a slow ISP- there's something majorly wrong but she kept repeating "it's slower during peak time".

Listen to mu, though when I was looking at Zen a few years back they were overpriced- even for their quality ISP. BT and Virgin are the class leaders overall (I think Sub had problems with his BT connection but it was more the line than the ISP?).

Aaaanyway. Starcraft 2. Awesome gameplay, the new battle.net is incredible, it's the only game where I plan on playing it through again to get achievments. I hope I can enjoy the MP- when I played a couple of games in the beta even victories felt more like work than fun.
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30 July 2010 - 13:14 EDT
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I had NTL in Ireland, it was acceptable. Magnet was even better.
Get to the spaceship!
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30 July 2010 - 16:02 EDT
#38
I get BT fibre optics in september... hopefully that'll be actually decent!
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30 July 2010 - 17:05 EDT
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Don't you live on a fucking farm? I live in the city that carries this fucking country and I don't get fibre optics until 2012 or something!?
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30 July 2010 - 17:31 EDT
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I'm on about fibre optics at uni... i.e. my house in Manchester.

Don't you live in like Southampton or some shithole?
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30 July 2010 - 19:49 EDT
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Welcome to 2009 Gibbz. I was at uni in Southampton but I graduated?! I live in South London which is seen as less deserving than the fucking North...
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30 July 2010 - 20:48 EDT
#42
it totally is
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31 July 2010 - 07:38 EDT
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Me Sheep Alty and Gibbz sign us up
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31 July 2010 - 08:22 EDT
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RE: Jimmis - do it urself in the sign up forum mate. with the correct details thanks.

heres the link

http://www.ensl.org/topics/224
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